1 . Often people use laptops (笔记本电脑) on trains and airplanes, in airports and hotels. These laptops connect people to their workplace. In the United States today, laptops also connect students to their classrooms.
Westlake College in Virginia will start a laptop computer programme that allows students to do schoolwork anywhere they want. Within five years, each of the 1, 500 students at the college will receive a laptop. The laptops are part of a $10 million computer programme at Westlake, a 110-year-old college. The students with laptops will also have access to the Internet. Besides, they will be able to use email to “speak” with their teachers, their classmates, and their families. However, the most important part of the laptop programme is that students will be able to use computers without going to computer labs. They can work with it at home, in a fastfood restaurant or under the trees — anywhere at all!
Because of the many changes in computer technology, laptop use in higher education, such as colleges and universities, is workable (可行的). As laptops become more powerful, they become more similar to desktop computers. Also, the portable computers can connect students to not only the Internet, but also libraries and other resources. State higher education officials are studying how laptops can help students. State officials are also testing laptop programmes at other universities, too.
1. The main purpose of the laptop programme is to give each student a laptop to ________.| A．do their school work |
| B．have access to the Internet |
| C．send emails |
| D．connect them to libraries |
| A．talk with speakers |
| B．talk with one’s mouth |
| C．communicate |
| D．use the computer language |
| A．It is an old college in America. |
| B．1, 500 students have laptops. |
| C．All students use computers. |
| D．Students there can do everything. |
2 . Facebook users may feel socially successful in cyberspace (虚拟空间) but they are more likely to perform poorly in exams, according to a new research into the academic impact of the social networking website.
About 83% of British 16 to 24-year-olds are thought to use social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo (视频博客), to keep in touch with friends and organize their social lives.
“Our study shows people who spend more time on Facebook spend less time studying,” said Aryn Karpinski, a researcher in the education department at Ohio State University. “Every generation has its distractions, but I think Facebook is a unique phenomenon.”
Karpinski and a colleague questioned 219 US undergraduates and graduates about their study practices and general Internet use, as well as their specific use of Facebook.
They found that 65% of Facebook users accessed their account daily (刷新个人主页), usually checking it several times to see if they had received new messages. The amount of time spent on Facebook at each login varied from just a few minutes to more than an hour.
The Ohio report shows that students who used Facebook had a “significantly” lower grade point average — the marking system used in US universities — than those who did not use the site.
“It is the equivalent of the difference between getting an A and a B,” said Karpinski, who will present her findings this week to the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
Some UK students have already spotted the potential danger. Daisy Jones, 21, an undergraduate in her final year at Loughborough University, realized the time she was spending on Facebook was threatening her grades — prompting her to deactivate (注销) her account.
Jones is among the few to have recognized the risks.According to Karpinski’s research, 79% of Facebookusing students believed the time they spent on the site had no impact on their work.
Facebook said, “There is also academic research that shows the benefits of services like Facebook. It’s in the hands of students, in consultation with their parents, to decide how to spend their time.”
1. According to the passage we know that most present students like to get in touch with their friends by ________.| A．sending short messages | B．chatting online |
| C．Facebook site | D．sending emails |
| A．the equivalent of the difference between getting an A and a B |
| B．not less grades in all studies |
| C．more ambitious to succeed in their studies |
| D．just the same |
| A．their study practices |
| B．their general Internet use |
| C．their specific use of Facebook |
| D．their habits of living |
| A．news | B．text |
| C．report | D．essay |
3 . The Internet has opened up a whole new online world for us to meet, chat and go where we’ve never been before.
But just as in face to face communication，there are some rules of behavior that should be followed when online. The basic rule is simple: treat others in the same way you would want to be treated.
If someone in the chat room is rude to you, your instinct (本能) is to fire back in the same manner. But try not to do so.
It is not polite to ask others personal questions such as their age, sex and marital status.
| A．It’s natural that there some people who speak rudely or make mistakes online |
| B．Repeat the process till you feel sure that you’d feel comfortable saying the words to the person’s face |
| C．Everyone was new to the network once |
| D．Imagine how you’d feel if you were in the other person’s shoes |
| E．When you send short messages to a person online, you must say something beautiful to hear |
| F．You should either ignore the person, or use your chat software to block their messages |
| G．Unless you know the person very well, and you are both comfortable with sharing personal information |
