Question

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. contact    B. include   C. announced    D. public     E. especially

F. growing  G. leader   H. range      I. available  J. separately

 

Knowledge is free on the Internet at a small but __1.___ number of colleges and universities.

About 160 schools around the world now put free course materials on the web to the ___2.___. Recent additions in the United States ___3.___ projects at Yale,  Johns Hopkins and the University of California, Berkeley.

Berkeley said it would offer videos of lectures on YouTube. Free videos from other schools are ___4.___ at the Apple iTunes store.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) became an early ___5.___with its Open Course Ware project, first ___6.___ in 2001. Free lecture notes, exams and other resources are published at ocw.mit.edu. Many exams even include the answers.

Today, Open Course Ware offers materials from 1,800 undergraduate and graduate courses. These  ___7.___ from physics to political science.

Visitors can learn the same things that M.I.T. students learn. But as the site points out, Open Course Ware is not a M.I.T. education. Visitors receive no credit toward a degree. Some materials from a course may not be available, and the site does not provide ___8.___ with teachers.

Still, M.I.T. says that the site has had forty million visits by thirty-one million visitors from almost every country. Sixty percent of the visitors are from outside the United States and Canada.

Students and educators use the site, including students at M.I.T. But the largest number of visitors, about half, are self-learners.

Some professors have become well-known around the world as a result of appearing online. Walter Lewin, a physics professor at M.I.T., is ___9.___ popular. Fans enjoy his entertaining lectures.

M.I.T. Open Course Ware now includes materials for high school. The aim is to improve education in science, technology, maths and engineering.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.F

2.D

3.B

4.I

5.G

6.C

7.H

8.A

9.E

【解析】

試題分析：這篇文章主要講了在一些高校的網站上，有免費的知識，這些高校為數不多，數量卻一直在增加�，F在，全世界大概有160所學校向公眾提供免費的在線課程材料。

1.這里想說許多大學院校將他們的課程免費放在英特網上，盡管院校不多，但數量卻在不斷增長，故用growing。 

2.這里想說現在，全世界大約有160所學校把免費的課程材料放在網上，以供公眾學習，故用public。

3.這里想說在美國，最近增加了耶魯大學、約翰霍普金斯大學和加州大學柏克萊分校的項目，故用include。

4.這里想說柏克萊分校稱，它將在YouTube網上提供講課的視頻。在蘋果iTunes商店中有其他學校的免費視頻，故填available。

5.這里想說麻省理工學院是其開放式課程項目的早期領導者，它于2001年首次宣布此項目，故填leader。

6.這里想說它于2001年首次宣布此項目，故填announced。

7.這里想說今天，開放式課程提供了1800個本科生和研究生的課程資料。這些課程從物理和線性代數，到人類學、政治學，甚至水肺潛水，都有涉及，故用range。

8.這里想說一些課程中的材料網站上并沒有，且網站也不幫助聯系相關老師。，故填contact。

9.根據由于在網上的曝光，一些教授變得世界知名。例如麻省理工物理學教授沃爾特.萊文，由于大量愛好者喜歡他充滿樂趣的演示和講解而備受歡迎，故填especially。

考點：教育類短文閱讀理解

點評：這篇文章非常簡單，先看問題，再帶著問題仔細閱讀短文，理解了全文內容，很容易選出正確答案。閱讀注意事項：1、關注連詞，分析文章邏輯結構。2、聚焦代詞，明辨指代關系。3、抓住關鍵詞語，利用平行結構、上下文（包括定義、釋義、舉例、對比、標點）進行判斷與推理。4、了解一些構詞法，從詞根的特殊含義入手。