American universities are rushing towards a wireless future. They are installing networ that let students and teachers surf the Internet from laptop computers anywhere. professors say the technology26___a growing challenge: Retaining their students' attention. In a classroom at American University in Washington Deen27_ and drawbacks of the new wireless world were on display. From the back row of a lecture hall, more than a lozen laptop screens were visible. As Professor Jay Mallek lectured on the finer points of an office budget, many students went online to surf the Internet, while a young man showed amusing email to the woman next to him, and then _28_____ over to read the online __29___ of The Wall Street Journal. Distraction(注意力分散)is nothing new. As long as there have been schools, students have whispered, passed notes and even gazed out of the window a daydreamed. But the arrival of the laptop has introduced new __30____for distraction, and outwerh wireless introduces an even31_range of distraction.This is_32annoying for law professorsmany of whom still live in the world of paper“This is something that hurts the students themselves,”said Ian Ayresprofessor at Yale Law School, who__33___the Internet’s entry into the classroom.However,Professor Mallek sees it differently. He said the benefits of the technology__34__the problems. He suggested that it might even be making him a better teacher.He takes the __35___of losing his students to e-mail and online newspapers as a challenge to keep lectures interesting and lively.A) opportunities F) especially K)switchedB)threat G)broader L) automaticallyC) convey H)benefits M)posesD)opposes I) edition N)outweighE)unattractive J)demonstrates O)disorders
American universities are rushing towards a wireless future. They are installing networ that let students and teachers surf the Internet from laptop computers anywhere. professors say the technology26___a growing challenge: Retaining their students' attention.
In a classroom at American University in Washington Deen27_ and drawbacks of the new wireless world were on display. From the back row of a lecture hall, more than a lozen laptop screens were visible. As Professor Jay Mallek lectured on the finer points of an office budget, many students went online to surf the Internet, while a young man showed amusing email to the woman next to him, and then _28_____ over to read the online __29___ of The Wall Street Journal. Distraction(注意力分散)is nothing new. As long as there have been schools, students have whispered, passed notes and even gazed out of the window a daydreamed. But the arrival of the laptop has introduced new __30____for distraction, and outwerh wireless introduces an even31_range of distraction.
This is_32annoying for law professorsmany of whom still live in the world of paper“This is something that hurts the students themselves,”said Ian Ayresprofessor at Yale Law School, who__33___the Internet’s entry into the classroom.However,Professor Mallek sees it differently. He said the benefits of the technology__34__the problems. He suggested that it might even be making him a better teacher.He takes the __35___of losing his students to e-mail and online newspapers as a challenge to keep lectures interesting and lively.
A) opportunities F) especially K)switched
B)threat G)broader L) automatically
C) convey H)benefits M)poses
D)opposes I) edition N)outweigh
E)unattractive J)demonstrates O)disorders
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答案:26-30:MHKIA 31-35:GFDNB
26.M,题中professors say the technology___ a growing challenge意为 :科技引出了一个挑战,pose引出,造成
27.H,题中_ and drawbacks of the new wireless world were on display意为:展示了新无线世界的优点和缺点。对应drawback瑕疵,用benefit优点。
28K,题中and then ______ over to read,这里在描述注意力的转移,所以用switch转变。
29.I,题中the online ____ of The Wall Street Journal是华尔街日报,所以是在线版本,edition。
30.A,题中 But the arrival of the laptop has introduced new _____for distraction意为:带来了新的分心的机会,A是机会。
31.G,题中outwerh wireless introduces an even _range of distraction. 后文为range范围,所以更广泛的范围broa der。
32.F,题中This is_annoying for law professorsmany of 修饰,特别地,especially。
33.D,题中who_____the Internet’s entry into the classro om. 说 了法律教授还活在纸质世界,所以反对互联网进教室。
34N,题中 the benefits of the technology____the probl ems. 因为支持,所以说好处大于问题,outweigh指大于。
35.B,题中He takes the _____of losing his students to e-mail 后文是描述学生分心,所以把这个威胁当做挑战。