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【題目】Last week, Education Secretary Arne Duncan declared a war on paper textbooks. “Over the next few years,” he said in a speech at the National Press Club, “textbooks should be abandoned.” In their place would come a variety of digital-learning technologies, like e-readers and multi-media websites.

Such technologies certainly have their place. But Secretary Duncan is threatening to light a fire to a tried-and-true technology—good old paper—that has been the foundation for one of the great educational systems on the planet. And while e-readers and multi-media may seem appealing, the idea of replacing an effective learning platform with a widely hyped (炒作) but still unproven one is extremely dangerous.

An expert on reading, Maryanne Wolf, has recently begun studying the effects of digital reading on learning, and so far the results are mixed. She worries that Internet reading, in particular, could be such a source of distractions(分散注意力) for the student that they may cancel out most other potential benefits of a web-linked, e-learning environment, and while it’s true that the high-tech industry has sponsored substantial amounts of research on the potential benefits of Web-based learning, not enough time has passed for longitudinal（縱向的） studies to demonstrate the full effects.

In addition, digital-reading advocates claim that lightweight e-books benefit students’ backs and save schools money. But the rolling backpack seems to have solved the weight problem, and the astounding costs to outfit every student with an e-reader, provide technical support and pay for regular software updates promise to make the e-textbook a very pricey choice.

As both a teacher who uses paper textbooks and a student of urban history, I can’t help but wonder what parallels exist between my own field and this sudden, wholesale abandonment of the technology of paper.

【1】Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. A tried and true technology is paper, long used in educational system.

B. Digital learning technologies will replace the paper textbooks sooner or later.

C. E-readers and multimedia websites are learning methods that are proved effective.

D. Multi-media websites and a good old paper are kinds of digital-learning technologies.

【2】What are drawbacks of textbooks according to the passage?

A. Its price. B. Its weight. C. Its content. D. Its appearance.

【3】What worries Maryanne Wolf is that ________.

A. paper learning can provide more potential benefits

B. the results of digital reading effects are understandable

C. students may not focus on learning by digital reading

D. digital reading can’t provide potential benefits for users

【4】What is the author’s attitude towards digital-learning?

A. disapproving. B. supportive. C. positive. D. objective.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】B

【3】C

【4】D

【解析】本文對用紙質課本還是用電子課本學習進行了討論，作者表明自己對電子書學習持反對態(tài)度。

【1】A推理判斷題。根據文章第二段But Secretary Duncan is threatening to light a fire to a tried-and-true technology—good old paper—that has been the foundation for one of the great educational systems on the planet.可知，靠得住的技術，即這個星球上偉大教育體系之一的基礎，也就是紙張。故答案為A。

【2】B推理判斷題。根據倒數第二段lightweight e-books benefit students’ backs and save schools money. But the rolling backpack seems to have solved the weight problem可知，教科書的缺點就是重量問題，故選B。

【3】C細節(jié)理解題。根據第三段She worries that Internet reading, in particular, could be such a source of distractions(分散注意力) for the student that they may cancel out most other potential benefits of a web-linked, e-learning environment.可知，她比較擔憂的是網上有太多分散注意力的東西，學生往往不會集中精力去學習，故選C。

【4】D態(tài)度意圖題。根據最后一段作者的描述可知，作者對于電子閱讀學習是持反對態(tài)度的，故選D。

【名師點撥】

作者態(tài)度及寫作意圖推斷

每一篇文章都會包含作者的某種觀點和態(tài)度，只不過有的直截了當，有的含而不露，有的通過所用詞語的褒貶來體現。此類題可細分為作者態(tài)度題(表明作者的好惡)和作者觀點題(表明作者對某事物的看法)。準確把握作者的情感和態(tài)度，需要注意以下幾點：

1.作者對某一事物的看法，要么支持，要么反對，帶中立色彩的詞最不可能是正確答案。

2.漠不關心類詞語往往不對，既然寫文章就不會不關心。

3.不要把自己的態(tài)度揉入其中，也要區(qū)分作者的態(tài)度和作者引用的別人的態(tài)度。

4.當作者的態(tài)度沒有明確提出時，要學會根據作者使用詞語的褒貶性來判斷。

5.作者的觀點一般與文章的主旨相關聯。

6.絕對化或語氣過于強烈的選項常常是錯誤的，如：strong, complete, entire等。