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

On March 28th, the New York Times will begin charging all but the most infrequent users to read articles online.

In a letter to readers, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., the publisher of the paper, laid out the details of the paywall, which he said will go into effect immediately in Canada and on March 28th for the rest of the world. He called the move “an important step that we hope you will see as an investment in the Times, one that will strengthen our ability to provide high-quality journalism to readers around the world and on any platform.”

Sulzberger said that readers will be able to read 20 articles per month at no charge. Once they click on the 21st piece, however, they’ll be presented with three payment options: $ 15 for four weeks of online and mobile application access, $ 20 for access to the site and the iPad application, or $ 35 for access to everything. People who already receive the printed paper through home delivery will enjoy free and unlimited access to the Times on all platforms.

These details largely agree with earlier reports on how the paywall would work. The Times had made it clear that it did not want to imitate the total paywalls put into effect by papers such as The Times of London and Newsday, which block access to all contents unless the reader pays.

The paper also signaled that it wants to stay relevant in the social media world. According to Sulzberger's announcement, people who come to the Times site from Facebook, Twitter or from blogs will be able to read those articles even if they have gone over their monthly limit.

However, Sulzberger said that a limit will be placed on “some search engines”, meaning that after readers have accessed a certain number of articles from search engines, any further articles they access from there will be added to their monthly count. It was reported that the only search engine that will be affected this way is Google, where there will be a five-article limit. This marks a clear attempt by the Times to close what could be a giant loophole (漏洞), since so much online traffic is directed through Google. But it also presents a risk for the Times for the same reason.

Sulzberger seems well aware of the risk. “The challenge now is to put a price on our work without walling ourselves off from the global network,” he said, adding that the Times must “continue to engage with the widest possible audience.”

1.The author’s main purpose in the text is to _______.

A. describe research findings                   B. report a piece of news

C. make advertisements                        D. suggest a solution

2.Why will the Times charge their online readers?

A. It wants to stay relevant in the social media world.

B. It has too many readers coming from the other sites.

C. It is seeking new financial sources for its development.

D. It is trying a way to offer better service to its readers.

3. Who will be limited to the New York Times articles?

A. Those subscribing to the printed newspapers

B. Readers clicking through from Facebook.

C. Those using Google research engine

D. Readers paying $ 35 a month.

4.What challenge may the paywall bring to the New York Times?

A. It may bring the Times more competition with the other media

B. It may stop the Times connecting to the global network

C. It may block the readers from the other websites

D. It may result in huge drops in papers' online readership

 

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

 

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