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e from $1,000 to perhaps $ 5,000 or more. 26 , it is not uncommon for them to purchase 27 costing another several hundred dollars, Twenty years ago, computers were 28 , but they were very large and extremely expensive. Few, if any, 29 purchased computers for home use..Over the years the price of the "guts" of a computer-its memory-has declined to less than a thousandth of the price per unit of memory that prevailed twenty years ago. This is the main reason why computers cost so much less today than they used to. Moreover, __30 improvements have made it possible to 31 memory circuitry that is small enou~ to fit into the portble personal computers that many of us own and use. 32 , as the price of computation has declined the average consumer and business have spent more on purchasing computers. 33 , improved agricultural technology, hybrid (杂交) seeds, 34 animal breeding, and so on have vastly increased the amount of output a typical farmer can produce. The prices of goods such as meats and grains have fallen sharply relative to the prices of most other goods and services. As agricultural prices have fallen, many households have decreased their total expenses on food. Even though the 35 of a product purchased generally increase when its price falls, total expenses on it may decline. 第26题应填____

all want some recognition of their professional status and skills, and a job. The former 26 is obviously important on a personal level, but it is 27 if you are to have any chance of finding work. Ten years ago, the 28 was very different. In virtually every developing country, and in many developed countries as well, being a native English speaker was enough to 29 as an English teacher. Now employers will only look at teachers who have the knowledge, the skills and attitudes to teach English 30 The result of this has been to raise non-native English teachers to the same status as their 31 --something they have always deserved but seldom enjoyed. Non-natives are now happy—linguistic discrimination is a thing of the past. An ongoing research project, funded by the University of Cambridge, asked a sample of teachers, teacher educators and employers in more than 40 countries a question: whether they regard the native andnon-native speakers distinction as being at all important. "No" was the answer. They would 32 who the teachers were and where they came from. As long as 33 could teach and had the required level of English, it didnt matter. Thus, a new form. of discrimination--this time justified because it 34 the unqualified--liberated the linguistically oppressed. But the Cambridge project did more than just that: it 35 that the needs of native and non-native teachers are extremely similar. 26._________

quicker than those who are thinner, according to British research. Those who are obese (肥胖的), and have other health problems such as high blood 26 , lose theirmemory and thinking skills almost a quarter faster. The study was based on almost 6,500 27 , whosehealth was monitored between the ages of 50 and 60. They were weighed and measured, their hearts were checked, and they were also asked what 28 they were taking. In addition,, they were asked to 29 mental tests three times during the decade, which were used to 30 memory and other cognitive skills. Of the 6,401 people in the study, nine percent were obese. Of those, 350 had two additional 31 factors such as heart attack, and were taking medicines for either condition. The researchers found the obese 32 their mental powers faster than their thinner colleagues, while those who also had additional factors lost their memory and thinking skills fastest of all. The latter group 33 a 22.5 percent faster decline on the cognitive test scores over the decade than those who were healthy. It is still not known why obesity 34 poorer brain performance, but with obesity levels on the rise,it will be important to explore a tittle deeper into this association. Meanwhile, it is also suggested that a 35 , regular exercise, not smoking and controlling blood pressure in midlffe can also help keep away from brain diseases. 请回答（26）题__________.

her education is this: The expectations of leading universities do much to define what secondary schools teach, and much to establish a sample for what it means to be an educated man or woman. College campuses are seen as the source for the newest thinking and for the generation of new ideas, as societys cutting edge. B． And the world is changing very rapidly. Think social networking or stem cells. Most companies look nothing like they did 50 years ago. Think General Motors, AT&T or Goldman Sachs. C． Yet undergraduate education changes remarkably little over time. My predecessor as Harvard President, Derek Bok, famously compared the difficulty of reforming a curriculum with the difficulty of moving a cemetery (公墓). With few exceptions, just as in the middle of the 20th century, students take four courses a term, each meeting for about three hours a week, usually with a teacher standing in front of the room. Students are evaluated on the basis of examination essays handwritten in blue books and relatively short research papers. Instructors are organized into departments, most of whichbear the same names they did when the grandparents of todays students were undergraduates. A vastmajority of students still major in one or two disciplines centered on a particular department. D． It may be that inertia (惯性．is appropriate. Part of universities function is to keep alive mansgreatest creations, passing them from generation to generation. Certainly anyone urging reform. doeswell to remember that in higher education the United States remains an example to the world, and thatAmerican universities compete for foreign students more successfully than almost any other Americanindustry competes for foreign customers. E．Nonetheless, it is interesting to speculate: Suppose the educational system is drastically altered torefleot the structure of society and what we now understand about how people learn. How will whatuniversities teach be different? Here are some guesses and hopes. F．1. Education will be more about how to process and use information and less about instructing it. Thisis a consequence of both the explosion of knowledge--and how much of it any student can truly absorb--and changes in technology. Before the printing press, scholars might have had to memorize The Canterbury Tales to have continuing access to them. This seems a bit ridiculous to us today. Bu tin a world where the entire Library of Congress will soon be accessible on a mobile device with search procedures that are vastly better than any card catalog, factual mastery will become less and less important. G．2. An inevitable consequence of the knowledge explosion is that tasks will be carried out with far more collaboration. As just one example, the fraction of economics papers that are co-authored has more than doubled in the 30 years that I have been an economist. More significant, collaboration is a much greater par,. of what workers do, what businesses do and what governments do. Yet the great superiority of work a student does is done alone at every level in the educational system. Indeed, excessive collaboration with others goes by the name of cheating. H．For most people, school is the last time they will be evaluated on indivividual effort. One leading investment bank has a hiring process in which a candidate must interview with upward of 60 senior members of the firm before receiving an offer. What is the most important specialty theyre looking for? Not GMAT scores or college transcripts ( 成绩单), but the ability to work with others. As greater value is placed on collaboration, surely it should be practiced more in our nations classrooms. I．3. New technologies will profoundly alter the way knowledge is conveyed. Electronic readers allow textbooks to be constantly revised, and to mix audio and visual effects. Think of a music text in which you can hear pieces of music as you read, or a history text in which you can see film clips about what you are reading. But there are more profound changes set in train. There was a time when professors had to prepare materials for their students. Then it became clear that it would be a better system if textbooks were written by just a few of the most able: faculty members would be freed up and materials would be improved, as competition drove up textbook quality. J．Similarly, it makes sense for students to watch video of the clearest math teacher or the most distinct analyst of the Revolutionary War rather than having thousands of separate efforts. Professors will have more time for direct discussion with students--not to mention the cost savings--and material will be better presented. In a 2008 survey of first-and second-year medical students at Harvard, those who used accelerated video lectures reported being more focused and learning more material faster than when they attended lectures in person. K．4. As articulated ted (明确有力地表达．by the Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman in "Thinking, Fast and Slow," we understand the processes of humaa thought much better than we once did. We are not rational calculating machines but collections of modules, each programmed to be skillful at a particular set of tasks. Not everyone learns most effectively in the same way. And yet in the face of all evidence, we rely almost entirely on passive learning. Students listen to lectures or they read and then are evaluated on the basis of their ability to demonstrate content mastery. They arent asked to actively use the knowledge they are acquiring. L．"Active learning classrooms"—which gather students at tables, with furniture that can be rearranged and integrated technology—help professors interact with their students through the use of media and collaborative experiences. Still, with the capacity of modern information technology, there is much more that can be done to promote dynamic learning. M．5. The world is much more open, and events abroad affect the lives of Americans more than ever before. This makes it essential that the educational experience breed cosmopolitanism ( 国际化)—that students have international experiences, and classes in the social sciences draw on examples from around the world. It seems logical, too, that more in the way of language study be expected of students. I am not so sure. There is no fixed way of effective learning because, people are collections of modules rather than rational calculating machines.