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更多资料 学英语 找长喜 1 六级阅读-摸底测试 Test 1 摸底测试一 测试试题 Passage 1 题材词数做题时间网络教育 1123 词 15 分钟 The Sound of One Hand Clicking Luis Figueroa lives down the street from UC Merced,the newest campus in the University of California system.So it s not surprising that the 21 year old studies fr om the comfort of his own home.But he s not enrolled at Merced:from his living room computer,Figueroa is earning his bachelor s degree in business administration at Columbia College in Missouri,some 2,000 miles away.At$630 per courseabout$1,800 per semesterhis online degree will cost far less than even in state tuition at UC.Not only that,Figueroa is able to continue working full time in a management training job with AT&T in Merced,a job he feels lucky to have in the current economic climate.“Once I realized I had time constraints,I knew the traditional classroom wouldn t work,”he says.“Courses online are open 24 hours a day,and I m able to go there any time I want.”That convenience is one of the main reasons nearly 4 million American students took at least one online course in the 2007 08 school year,according to a study by the Sloan Foundation.The same study found that online enrollment is growing at a rate more than 10 times that of the higher education population at large 12.9 percent vs.1.2 percent for traditional“in seat”students.Nowhere is the growth faster than among younger students like Figueroa who are opting for online learning,even when the traditional classroom isin his caseright outside the front door.“This is a generation that lives online,”says Vicky Phillips,founder and CEO of G,a service that ranks online learning institutions.“Everything is instant,accelerated,and accessible,and they expect their education to be that way too.For them there is no clear line between the virtual world and the actual world.”Once targeted at older,working adults,distance learning has moved into the education mainstream at stunning speed over the past couple of years,as technology allows ever richer,more i nteractive learning experiences onlineand as college costs continue to rise and classrooms are packed to capacity.For traditional brick and mortar institutions,that has meant a scramble to enter a lucrative(可获利的)market that used to be the exclusive territory of for profit institutions such as the University of Phoenix and Kaplan University.Established brand name educators including Stanford,Cornell,Penn State,and MIT,which has placed its entire curriculum online through its OpenCourseWare programnow offer extensive online learning options and are competing with the for profits for students.“The stigma is gone,”says Phillips.“Online learning has reached mass cultural acceptance.It s no longer the ugly stepsister of the higher education world.”Online offerings these days can sometimes even surpass the classroom experience.Aaron Walsh,a professor at Boston College and a former videogame designer,has pioneered Immersive Education,a method of teaching through virtual worlds.Meeting in Second Life instead of a physical classroom,says Walsh,allows for some feats that gravity renders impossible,like having art history students fly to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or biology majors to take a Magic 更多资料 学英语 找长喜 2 Schoolbus like trip through the human body.Using videos,podcasts,live chats,Webcams,and wikis,educators increasingly see online learning as a way to engage the videogame generation with pedagogy that feels more like entertainment than drudgery.Students in the new homeland security master s degree program at the University of Connecticut this fall,for example,will have coursework that resembles Grand Theft Auto:dwelling in a cybercity called San Luis Rey plagued with suicide bombers,biochemical attacks,and other disasters.At Arizona State,students in an Introduction to Parenting class raise a“virtual child.”They have to post the progress of their online charge through all the phases of childhood.“The classes are so much more interactive,and I can log on when I m most ready to learn,”says Jaquelyn Holleran,a junior majoring in family and human development at ASU.“I like that so much better than having to rush to class or sit through a lecture that s boring.”As the largest generation since the baby boom attends college at a time of shrinking budgets and soaring costs,many educators believe that online learning holds the greatest promise for expanding the capacity of the U.S.higher education system.And digital classrooms will surely play an important role in helping the Obama administration pursue its goal of raising the percentage of college graduates in the U.S.to first in the world by 2020(at least 10 other countries now stand in the way).The surge in students with jobs and families,and those in the military,has also caused online enrollments to soar.Sarah Gerke,an Army private stationed in Iraq,keeps up with her coursework at Columbia College in Missouri,despite the occasional bombing.“Even if I could attend in person,”she writes in an e mail from Camp Liberty,“I think I would stick with online classes for the convenience.”For public institutions such as the University of Michigan and the University of Massachusetts,online learning not only extends their brand,it s a cost effective way to serve more students.At UMassOnline,enrollment among students under the age of 25 has increased 91 percent over the past three years.At Thomas Edison State College in Trenton,N.J.,that growth rate over the same period is more than 100 percent.“The best way to lower the cost of higher education is to graduate on time,”says UMass president Jack Wilson.“More and more we see students using online learning as an accelerator,a way to move more quickly through their undergraduate program.”Another important factor that has closed the prestige gap is the tight integration of online programs into their host institutions.When UMass launched UMassOnline in 2001,it used the same admission standards,the same faculty,the same curriculaand it awarded students degrees indistinguishable from those given to campus going counterparts.The vision of UMassOnline as a seamless division of the university worked because“it fit with the culture of the institution,”says Wilson,who was the CEO of UMassOnline until 2003,when he became the president of UMass.The venture has also been extremely profitableUMassOnline earned$46.8 million in 2008.Despite the popularity of online learning,there are shortcomings.Students may save money and time,but they give up college social life.Chat boards are hardly a substitute for the camaraderie of the dormor the richness of cultural life on campus.And while it s easy to move ahead in an online course,there s no one looking over your shoulder in a virtual classroom.“You have to be good at planning your time,”says ASU s Holleran.“If you don t you re going to fall behind.”Then again,help is only an e mail away.1.Figueroa will get his bachelor s degree in business administration by.A studying at UC Merced 更多资料 学英语 找长喜 3 B taking online courses from UC C learning online lectures of Columbia College D going to Columbia College in Missouri 2.The study by the Sloan Foundation shows that.A about 4 million American students took online courses in the 2007 08 school year B the online enrollment is growing at a rate of more than 10 times per year C the ratio of traditional“in seat”and online enrollment growth rate is 12.9 to 1.2 D the biggest reason why so many people take online course is its convenience 3.Among whom online learning grows the fastest?A Primary school students.B Younger students.C Older working adults.D The retired elder.4.What did people think of online learning,according to Phillips?A It s convenient.B It s cost effective.C It s undersirab le.D It s excellent.5.By Immersive Education method,students can.A enjoy some feats in physical classroom that gravity renders impossible B go to a city plagued with suicide bombers,biochemical attacks and so on C learn how to be a parent by raising an adopted child through Internet.D have a simulated trip through the human body in front of a computer 6.Sarah Gerke takes online classes because.A the army has such a requirement B online class is more cheaper C online class is convenient D there s no classroom in the army 7.Compared with taking traditional education,taking courses at UMassOnline.A can make you get a special degree different from campus going counterparts B needs you to spend a shorter time geting a degree C ensures you to receive higher standardized curricula D allows you to accept class counseling from teachers at anytime when you want 8.Jaquelyn Holleran feels online classes are than traditional classroom classes.9.Many educators hold that online learning is the most possible method for helping of the U.S.higher education system.10.According to ASU s Holleran,if people taking online course don t arrange time reasonably,they will.Passage 2 题材词数做题时间生理科学 403 词 8 分钟 The gift of being able to describe a face accurately is a rare one,as every experienced police officer knows to his cost.As the Lancet put it recently:“When we try to describe faces precisely,words fail us,and we resort to identikit(人像拼图)procedures.”Yet,according to one authority on the subject,we can each probably recognize more than 1,000 faces,the majority of which differ in fine details.This,when one comes to think of it,is a tremendous feat,though,curiously enough,relatively little attention has been devoted to the fundamental problems of how and why we acquire this gift for recognizing and remembering faces.Is it an inborn property of our brains,or an acquired one?As so often happens,the experts tend to differ.Thus,some argue that it is inborn,更多资料 学英语 找长喜 4 and that there are“special characteristics about the brain s ability to distinguish faces”.In support of this thesis,they note how much better we are at recognizing a face after a single encounter than we are,for example,in recognizing an individual horse.On the other hand,there are those,and they are probably in the majority,who claim that the gift is an acquired one.The arguments in favor of this latter view,it must be confessed,are impressive.It is a habit that is acquired soon after birth.Watch,for instance,how a quite young baby recognizes his mother by sight.Granted that his senses help the sound of her voice,his sense of smell,the distinctive way she handles him.But of all these,sight is predominant.Formed at the very beginning of life,the ability to recognize faces quickly becomes an established habit,and one that is essential for daily living,if not necessarily for survival.How essential and valuable it is we probably do not appreciate until we encounter people who have been deprived of the faculty.Prosopagnosia(PA)or face blindness is characterized by the inability to differentiate faces,except for the most familiar ones such as members of one s family.It can be caused by brain injury,but cases where the disorder appears to run in families have also been reported.But such people can often recognize individuals by their voices,their walking manners or their spectacles.With typical human ingenuity many of these unfortunate people overcome their handicap by recognizing other characteristic features.11.According to the passage the number of people who can give exact details of the appearance of a face is.12.According to an authority mentioned in the passage,though we can t describe a face,we can.13.Most people may support the idea that the gift of being able to recognize a face accurately is.14.According to the passage,the most important sense for the ability of face recognition is.15.According to the passage,may be the factor leading to people s inability to differentiat e faces.Passage 3 题材词数做题时间科技应用 442 词 9 分钟 Cell phone use has exploded in many countries,easing communication between individuals but causing social malaise(不适应症)as well.In some countries that lacked the infrastructure often present in developed nations.In the industrialized West,cell phone use has leapfrogged over conventional phone networks that relied on burdensome telephone lines and expensive underground wiring.In Asian countries,especially poorer ones like Cambodia,such high infrastructure costs are being avoided by simply moving to wireless communication.However,even in the most modern of countries,cell phone use has proved somewhat of a novelty,one that has required a redefinition of social conventions.The ability to always be connected with another person,no matter where one travels,has led to a friction of personal space and different perceptions on the value of communication.Today,cell phone users can talk to friends,workers and family members while catching a bus,walking along the street or climbing a flight of stairs.But what about the people around cell phone users?Often a loud call in a movie theatre or a recital hall will bring signs of annoyance by the audience as impatience with beeping and ringing increases.But should government step in to regulate the use of cell phones and restrict their use?Some argue that market forces are best suited to solving consumer dissatisfaction.Advocates of this perspective cite new rules in movie theatres and concert halls that require patrons to turn off their cell phone before the performance begins.Others,however,see a role for government in 更多资料 学英语 找长喜 5 harnessing this new technology.In some states,it is now illegal to drive and talk on a phone,such as California,Connecticut,New Jersey,Washington and New York.Furthermore,the restrictions are stricter for teenage drivers,and this is also a common trend.As a response to these laws and because of the complications of performing more than one task while speaking on a cell phone,companies have developed headsets so that users can talk“hands free”.Headsets are fast becoming an essential part of the professional lifestyle.Nevertheless,this solution has perhaps aggravated social friction by making cell phone use even more convenient.Many users are now seen talking to themselves a sign not of mental instability but of the rapid expansion of modern technology.Regardless of private or public restrictions on the use of cell phone,society still has a long way to go before it can truly accept and adapt to the burdens of cell phone use on third parties.Only when distinct social norms are created to deal with common cell phone use will the technology become more accepted and viewed less an irritant.16.What does the word“leapfrog”in Para 1.mean?A Rapidly become outdated.B Jump across normal phone lines.C Replace and surpass.D Expand at a rapid rate.17.What can we know about the use of cell phones from the passage?A It is so innovative that the social conventions have been redefined.B It has somewhat provoked controversy over private space and values of communication.C It brought more troubles than convenience it brought.D It is being regulated by the government in all states.18.What s the author s attitude tow ard