Roslyn Hing School on long Island recently started a pilot program using iPads in some classrooms.
A growing number of schools across the U.S.are multimedia,history through gamse and math with step-by -step animation(动画)of complex problems.
As part of a pilot program,Roslyn High School handed out 47 iPads on Dec.20,2010 to the students and teachers in two humanities(人文学科)classes. The school district hopes to provide iPads eventually to all 1,100 of its students.
The iPads are to be used in class and at hom during the school year to replace texbooks,allow students to correspond with teachers and tum in papers and homework tasks,and preserve a rocord of student work in digital files.
“It allows us to extend the classes beyond these four walls.”said larry Reiff,an English teacher at Roslyn who now posts all his course mateials online.
But educators are still divided over whether practices to give every student a laptop have made a difference academically.
“Thre is very little evidence that kids learn more,faster of better by using these machines,”said Larry Cuban,a retried professor of eduction at Staford University.“IPads are excellent tools to attract kids,but then the fieshness wears off and you eget int hard-core problems of teaching and learning.”
But school leaders say the iPad is not just a cool new toy but rather a powerful and multifunctional tool with a number of applications,including thousands with educational uses.
“If there isn't an application that does something I need ,there will be sooner or later,”said Mr.Reiff,who said he now used an application that includes all of Shakespare's plays.
【小题1】The program of using iPads in class is            .

A.widely accepted by most schools in the United States
B.only an experimental one carried out in some schools
C.a compulsory one carried out by the U.S government
D.encouraged and organized by the iPad company
【小题2】The underlined part “these four walls”in paragraph 5 refers to    .
A.school dormitoryB.school campus
C.teacher's officeD.school classroom
【小题3】We can use iPads to do the following at school except     .
A.replace the school textbooksB.keep digital record of homework
C.judge the teachers'teachingD.communicate with teachers
【小题4】The school leaders tink highly of the iPad mainly because it is       .
A.cool and interestingB.powerful and helpful
C.multifunctional and expensiveD.attractive and vivid
【小题5】We can infer from the passage that     .
A.most old teachers are against the pilot program
B.students have achieved a lot after using iPads
C.teaching will become less important with the help of ipads
D.iPads will be used is more and more schools in the US

下面是美国长大的台湾人气歌手Wang Lee Hom在接受CNN Talk Asia栏目专访时,回答了主持人Lorraine Hahn提出的五个问题。请从下列提问(A、 B、C、D、E和F)中选出符合各小题要求的最佳选项。

A. What do awards mean to you?

B. How would you describe your style?

C. What is it about acting that’s so attractive?

D. How do you deal with this loss of privacy?

E. How do you divide your time in acting and music?

F. What gave you the idea to start the studios in the first place?

Born in New York in 1976, Wang grew up in the United States. Blessed with a mix of brains and talent, he spent his youth performing in local musicals. While in university, Wang landed a recording contract in Taiwan. His breakthrough album firmly established him as a rising star in the Asian music scene. In addition to writing and producing his own music, Wang has also taken part in movie projects around Asia. He has won a great popularity, and now he is having an interview with CNN Talk Asia.

1. _______

WL: It is a school of hip hop, which is the way I like to think of it. It combines Chinese elements and sounds. I started it off in my last album called Shangri-La. And this album combines the music of ethnic minorities, in China, in Tibet, and in Mongolia. It’s beautiful and original to Chinese culture. And this new album called Heroes of Earth combines Opera and Quench, which are thousand-year-old traditions also unique to Chinese culture. Very unique instruments, costumes, singing styles. I don’t think anyone has ever done this before in the hip hop world.

2._______

WL: Um, just the large quantity of work that I have to come up with. I produce for other artists and compose for them as well. And there are a lot of changes in music going on right now in Asia. And it’s really exciting so I decided that I’m going to need a studio in New York. I’m going to need a studio in Taipei. And maybe the rest I can get by with just my laptop.

3._______

WL: Well, I started doing musical theatre. And I loved it so much from the age of 13, you know. Actually in 2000, I did my first movie and ever since then I’ve been enjoying doing movies. I don’t think I’m much of an actor. But I just love being surrounded by creative people and a lot of times doing music is a lonely struggle, especially composing, and arranging, producing my own albums. Acting, every day you get called and you’re surrounded by other actors and creative people.

4._______

WL: The first time I won, like you just said, when I was 22, it meant a lot to me. It was like…I didn’t know I could make this happen. I didn’t know I could get this kind of recognition. So back then, it was huge increase of confidence. And I don’t want to say vanity (虚荣心), but confidence. I think every artist needs confidence.

5._______

WL: Well, it can be a real pain in the neck. You know, I feel lucky that I can go back to New York and not be recognized and not be followed. At times it can be really, really annoying. Today many people own a cell phone that has a camera on it… and a blog. In the entertainment news, there’s a recent trend of journalists or media just going on to the Internet and saying “Oh, so and so saw so and so.” when they see a blog. You know, it’s completely irresponsible but in the blog what he says can become the title of the newspaper article.

 

Roslyn Hing School on long Island recently started a pilot program using iPads in some classrooms.

A growing number of schools across the U.S.are multimedia,history through gamse and math with step-by -step animation(动画)of complex problems.

As part of a pilot program,Roslyn High School handed out 47 iPads on Dec.20,2010 to the students and teachers in two humanities(人文学科)classes. The school district hopes to provide iPads eventually to all 1,100 of its students.

The iPads are to be used in class and at hom during the school year to replace texbooks,allow students to correspond with teachers and tum in papers and homework tasks,and preserve a rocord of student work in digital files.

“It allows us to extend the classes beyond these four walls.”said larry Reiff,an English teacher at Roslyn who now posts all his course mateials online.

But educators are still divided over whether practices to give every student a laptop have made a difference academically.

“Thre is very little evidence that kids learn more,faster of better by using these machines,”said Larry Cuban,a retried professor of eduction at Staford University.“IPads are excellent tools to attract kids,but then the fieshness wears off and you eget int hard-core problems of teaching and learning.”

But school leaders say the iPad is not just a cool new toy but rather a powerful and multifunctional tool with a number of applications,including thousands with educational uses.

“If there isn't an application that does something I need ,there will be sooner or later,”said Mr.Reiff,who said he now used an application that includes all of Shakespare's plays.

1.The program of using iPads in class is            .

A.widely accepted by most schools in the United States

B.only an experimental one carried out in some schools

C.a compulsory one carried out by the U.S government

D.encouraged and organized by the iPad company

2.The underlined part “these four walls”in paragraph 5 refers to    .

A.school dormitory

B.school campus

C.teacher's office

D.school classroom

3.We can use iPads to do the following at school except     .

A.replace the school textbooks

B.keep digital record of homework

C.judge the teachers'teaching

D.communicate with teachers

4.The school leaders tink highly of the iPad mainly because it is       .

A.cool and interesting

B.powerful and helpful

C.multifunctional and expensive

D.attractive and vivid

5.We can infer from the passage that     .

A.most old teachers are against the pilot program

B.students have achieved a lot after using iPads

C.teaching will become less important with the help of ipads

D.iPads will be used is more and more schools in the US

 

完形填空。
     I was on my way to visit my cousin in Wales. I was driving on the motorway  1   somehow I lost
control of my car. It ran into a smaller car, with parents and three young children in it.   2  , no one was
hurt but the experience was very   3 .
     There was so much   4    that my first thought was to just   5    my car as fast as I could. I could hear
the children from the car behind me   6  . when I got out, I could see the mum was trying hard to   7   her
crying children and move them away from the smoking   8  at the same time. I was shocked.
     I though it would be   9   that the parents would be angry and upset. But   10  being angry with me,
the mum simply said to me "Come here. You need to join in our hug. "
     Really? I couldn't   11   my ears. It was such a warm gesture from someone whose family had just
been   12  be me! I felt much   13  afterwards.
     Meanwhile, the father was getting the children's   14  out of the back of his car because it was
freezing outside. When he came back, he asked me if I was okay and then gave me a   15  too! I
couldn't believe it! I could see that he was completely shocked and dazed(茫然的)and yet he   16   
managed this wonderful and warm gesture. To find pity in a moment like that is 17    incredible (难以置
信的).
     Later, I overheard the couple telling their children that the important thing to   18  was that they were
all okay and unhurt!
     The story didn't stop there… A few hours later, after I reached my cousin's home, the father   19  
  me to see if I had got hom okay and make sure that I was all right.
     Incredible people do   20 , but to actually meet them, especially during such a frightening moment, 
was just so incredible.
(     )1. A. when     
(     )2. A. Clearly  
(     )3. A. frightening
(     )4. A. fire   
(     )5. A. look out of
(     )6. A. talking
(     )7. A. comfort
(     )8. A. trains
(     )9. A. terrible
(     )10. A. in favor of
(     )11. A. believe
(     )12. A. damaged
(     )13. A. sadder
(     )14. A. bags
(     )15. A. hug   
(     )16. A. even   
(     )17. A. nearly  
(     )18. A. focus on
(     )19. A. wrote   
(     )20. A. stay
B. until  
B. Strangely
B. interesting
B. smoke     
B. give up   
B. singing   
B. hold   
B. cars   
B. obvious   
B. in case of
B. see    
B. hit     
B. safer  
B. books    
B. smile     
B. already  
B. mostly    
B. refer to  
B. found     
B. care   
C. before
C. Luckily
C. depressing
C. noise
C. get out of
C. screaming
C. separate
C. taxis
C. natural
C. other than
C. find
C. attacked
C. worse
C. toys
C. speech
C. still
C. hardly
C. speak of
C. rang
C. arrive
D. while          
D. Exactly        
D. surprising    
D. traffic        
D. pick up        
D. quarrelling    
D. satisfy        
D. trucks        
D. ordinary      
D. instead of    
D. feel          
D. saved          
D. better        
D. coats          
D. hand          
D. just          
D. truly          
D. point to      
D. followed      
D. exist          
阅读理解
     美国长大的台湾人气歌手Wang Lee Hom在接受CNN Talk Asia栏目专访时,回答了主持人
Lorraine Hahn提出的五个问题(第1-5题).请从下列提问(A、 B、C、D、E和F)中选出与他
的回答相匹配的问题。

A. What do awards mean to you?
B. How would you describe your style?
C. What is it about acting that's so attractive?
D. How do you deal with this loss of privacy?
E. How do you divide your time in acting and music?
F. What gave you the idea to start the studios in the first place?

     Born in New York in 1976, Wang grew up in the United States. Blessed with a mix of brains and
talent, he spent his youth performing in local musicals. While in university, Wang landed a recording
contract in Taiwan. His breakthrough album firmly established him as a rising star in the Asian music
scene. In addition to writing and producing his own music, Wang has also taken part in movie projects
around Asia. He has won a great popularity, and now he is having an interview with CNN Talk Asia.
1. ______________
    WL: It is a school of hip hop, which is the way I like to think of it. It combines Chinese elements and
sounds. I started it off in my last album called Shangrila. And this album combines the music of ethnic
minorities, in China, in Tibet, and in Mongolia. It's beautiful and original to Chinese culture. And this new
album called Heroes of Earth combines Opera and Quen-chu, which are thousand-year-old traditions
also unique to Chinese culture. Very unique instruments, costumes, singing styles. I don't think anyone
has ever done this before in the hip hop world.
2. ______________
     WL: Um, just the large quantity of work that I have to come up with. I produce for other artists and
compose for them as well. And there are a lot of changes in music going on right now in Asia. And it's
really exciting so I decided that I'm going to need a studio in New York. I'm going to need a studio in
Taipei. And maybe the rest I can get by with just my laptop.
3. ______________
     WL: Well, I started doing musical theatre. And I loved it so much from the age of 13, you know.
Actually in 2000, I did my first movie and ever since then I've been enjoying doing movies. I don't
think I'm much of an actor. But I just love being surrounded by creative people and a lot of times doing
music is a lonely struggle, especially composing, and arranging, producing my own albums. Acting, every
day you get called and you're surrounded by other actors and creative people.
4. ____________
     WL: The first time I won, like you just said, when I was 22, it meant a lot to me. It was like…I didn't
know I could make this happen. I didn't know I could get this kind of recognition. So back then, it was
huge increase of confidence. And I don't want to say vanity(虚荣心), but confidence. I think every artis
needs confidence.
5. _____________
     WL: Well, it can be a real pain in the neck. You know, I feel lucky that I can go back to New York
and not be recognized and not be followed. At times it can be really, really annoying. Today many
people own a cell phone that has a camera on it…and a blog. In the entertainment news, there's a recent
trend of journalists or media just going on to the Internet and saying "Oh, so and so saw so and so." when
they see a blog. You know, it's completely irresponsible but in the blog what he says can become the title
of the newspaper article.

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