課程代碼：00596
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I. Reading Comprehension (50 points, 2 points for each)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are five passages. Following each passage, there are
five questions with four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and then
blacken the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet.
Passage One
From time to time, we need an expert. In such situations, the Internet has been like a gift from the gods. In the old days, authorities were near at hand for expert advice: the village seamstress on how to make a buttonhole, the blacksmith on how to take care of a horse’s hooves, or the apothecary on what to do about warts. On the Internet, advice and answer sites are popping up all over the place, with self-proclaimed experts at the ready.
Exp.com claims to have “tens of thousands of experts who can help you,”while the more restrained Abuzz.com, owned by The New York Times, limits its pitch to “Ask Anything! Real People. Real Answers.” It’s said that expert sites or knowledge networks represent the latest stage in the Internet’s evolution, a “democratization of expertise.” However, if your question is about something other than “Who invented the light bulb?”, the answers are likely to be a wild potpourri
of personal opinions.
Top colleges and universities are rushing into online education, but the big news is the proliferation of a new breed of for-profit online institutions bringing Internet education to the masses.“The Internet will probably be the single most democratizing force in education,” says Columbia Business School Dean Meyer Feldberg, who envisions educational programs being routed through the net to hundreds of millions of people.
The largest online institution is the University of Phoenix, with some 6,000 students today and hopes of reaching 200,000 students in 10 years. The university offers bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in business management, technology, education, and nursing. The university notes that its degree programs cost far less and may take some students far less time to complete.
On the other hand, a Business Week survey of 247 companies found that only a handful would consider hiring applicants who earned their MBA degrees online.Whether that will change as for-profit online universities improve their offerings and graduates prove their worth-is anyone’s guess.
The rest of the world is moving into cyberspace more slowly than the United States, and, in the developing world, the Internet has hardly penetrated at all. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is determined to change this through the United Nations Information Technology Service, which will train large numbers of people to tap into the income enhancing power of the Internet. Annan is also proposing an Internet health network that will provide state-of-the-art medical knowledge to 10,000 clinics and hospitals in poor countries.
Questions l-5 are based on Passage One.
1. From the passage we may assume that the author______.
A. trusts old days experts more than online ones
B. believes that most of the online experts are qualified
C. trusts the intelligence of large amounts of experts online
D. believes that online experts can answer people’s questions better
2. From paragraph 2 we can infer that the author’s attitude towards experts online is_________.
A. excited B. neutral
C. doubtful D. indifferent
3. Which of the following best describes the author’s opinion towards the future of online education?
A. People have to wait and see.
B. It is predictable in future development.
C. It cannot thrive without good management.
D. People believe that it is doomed from the start.
4. The underlined phrase“state-of-the-art” in paragraph 6 means______.
A. advanced and in large quantity B. very creative and artistic
C. skillful and attractive D. very modern
5. Kofi Annan’s United Nations Information Technology Service aims at ______.
A. improving UN staff’s computer skill
B. promoting the use of the Internet over the world
C. providing medical knowledge to poor hospitals
D. promoting the use of the Internet in the United States
