Students at Empire High School started class with no text books－but it wasn’t because of money problems.

Instead, the school gave iBooks－laptop computersto each of its 340 students, becoming one of the first US public schools to stop printed textbooks.
School officials believe that the electronic materials will make students enjoy learning more. Empire High Schoolwas designed to have a textbook-free environment.
Students at Empire High School get the materials over the school’s Internet network. The school has a central control system that limits what can be downloaded(下載) at the school.
“Students can hand in homework online. We have a web program that helps to check if you copy from others,” the headmaster Baker said.
In addition to offering up-to-date information, teachers can make the lessons more enjoyable. For example, lessons in history can include links to a person’s daily life, his ideas, his discovery, and so on.
Social studies teacher Jeremy Gypton said the change was easier than expected. Gypton said he assigned reading based on websites, used online groups and message boards to keep the students connected. And he also asked them to comment（評(píng)論）on each other’s work.
Julian Tarazon, a new student, said that it was kind of hard at first, because you had to put things in folders(文件夾). But after a couple of days, you got used to it. Another student Morgan Northcutt said the computer system had made it easier to do homework.
The school isn’t completely paperless, however. It has a library, and students can read books in it.
“We’re not trying to get rid of books,” Baker said. “We love books.”
小題1:The students at Empire High School will study in class without ___________ this year.
A．text messagesB．printed textbooksC．reading materialsD．electric machines
小題2:The teachers at Empire High School began to use iBooks because they___________.
A．had money problemsB．had limited network
C．wanted to improve their teachingD．wanted a web program
小題3:A central control system can help to control __________.
A．how much to downloadB．what to download
C．how to downloadD．why to download
小題4:The underlined word “assigned” probably means “___________”.
A．說(shuō)明B．完成C．轉(zhuǎn)讓D．布置
小題5:The biggest advantage of the homework online is that___________.
A．students can do it anytime
B．information online is available
C．there is a lot of reading based on websites
D．it provides a platform for students to share ideas
小題6: The best title of the passage might be “___________”.
A．High School uses iBooks instead of textbooks
B．Don’t try to get rid of books
C．Learning without textbooks is harder
D．Doing homework online

小題1:B
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:D
小題5:D
小題6:A

試題分析：短文大意：在帝國(guó)高中學(xué)生上課沒(méi)有課本－但并不是因?yàn)殄X的問(wèn)題。相反，學(xué)校給給每位學(xué)生－iBook筆記本電腦，成了第一個(gè)停止使用印刷教科書的美國(guó)公立學(xué)校。給學(xué)生提供了一個(gè)創(chuàng)意共享的平臺(tái)。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。文章的第二段講述“學(xué)校使用ibooks，學(xué)校停止使用printed textbooks”， 停止使用printed textbooks就是不再用的意思，所以本題選B。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。文章第一段講述“不是錢的問(wèn)題”，文章第四段講述“學(xué)校有一個(gè)控制下載內(nèi)容的中央系統(tǒng)”，所以其網(wǎng)絡(luò)沒(méi)有限制。文章第五段講述“學(xué)校有一個(gè)幫助檢查是否抄襲的程序”。所以，根據(jù)本篇文章的主要意思，學(xué)校推廣ibooks是因?yàn)椤跋胍倪M(jìn)教學(xué)”，所以本題選C。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。文章第四段講述“學(xué)校有一個(gè)控制下載內(nèi)容的中央系統(tǒng)”，所以答案為B。
小題4:詞義猜測(cè)題。文章第七段第二行，“Gypton老師是基于網(wǎng)頁(yè)來(lái)進(jìn)行給學(xué)生布置閱讀任務(wù)”，然后通過(guò)“在線小組進(jìn)行連接”。所以本題的答案為D。
小題5:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。本題主要問(wèn)“網(wǎng)上作業(yè)的最大優(yōu)勢(shì)”，但是學(xué)生必須理解考試手冊(cè)詞匯“advantage”�；卮疬@個(gè)問(wèn)題需要理解整篇文章的意思，然后通過(guò)四個(gè)論述的比較選擇符合文章主要意思，所以本題選D，給學(xué)生提供了一個(gè)創(chuàng)意共享的平臺(tái)。
小題6:主旨大意題。文章的主要內(nèi)容是“使用ibooks來(lái)代替textbooks”，其他的三個(gè)內(nèi)容只是論述的三個(gè)方面。所以本題選A。
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