Carmen Arace Middle School is situated in the pastoral town of Bloomfield, Conn., but four years ago it faced many of the same problems as inner-city schools in nearby Hartford: low scores on standardized tests and dropping enrollment（入學(xué)注冊(cè)）. Then the school’s hard-driving headmaster, Delores Bolton, persuaded her board to shake up the place by buying a laptop computer for each student and teacher to use, in school and at home. What’s more, the board provided wireless Internet access at school. Total cost: $2.5 million.
Now, an hour before classes start, every seat in the library is taken by students who cannot wait for getting online. Fifth-grade teacher Jen Friday talks about different kinds of birds as students view them at a colorful website. After school, students on buses pull laptops from backpacks to get started on homework. Since the computer arrived, enrollment is up 20%. Scores on state tests are up 35%.
Indeed, school systems in rural Maine and New York City also hope to follow Arace Middle School’s example. Governor Angus King had planned using $50 million to buy a laptop for all of Maine’s 17,000 seventh-graders – and for new seventh-graders each fall.
In the same spirit, the New York City board of education voted on April 12 to create a school Internet portal（入口）, which would make money by selling ads and licensing public school students. Profits（盈利）will also provide e-mail service for the city’s 1.1 million public school students. Profits will be used to buy laptops for each of the school system’s 87,000 fourth-graders. Within nine years, all students in grades 4 and higher will have their own computers.
Back in Bloomfield, in the meantime, most of the kinks have been worked out. Some students were using their computers to visit unauthorized（非法的）websites. But teachers have the ability to keep an eye on where students have been on the Web and to stop them. “That is the worst when they disable you,” says eighth-grade honors student Jamie Bassell. The habit is rubbing off on parents. “I taught my mom to use e-mail,” says another eighth-grader, Katherine Hypolite. “And now she’s taking computer classes. I’m so proud of her!”
【小題1】The example of Carmen Arace Middle School in the passage is used to ______.

Kim：What do you want to do in the future，Bob?

Bob：I want to become a well-known writer．____1____

Kim：I want to be a singer．I enjoy singing very much．

Bob：I always hear you sing in your classroom and in the dormitory．

Kim：You know，practicing is Very important．My teacher always asks me to practice as much as possible．

Bob：____2____

Kim：Three hours a day on weekdays and six hours a day on weekends．

Bob：Do you think it is boring to practice singing every day?

Kim：____3____ Singing is a great pleasure for me．I have entered for the “Future Star Cup” singing contest．It will be held next week．

Bob：Do you think you will win in the contest?

Kim：Yes．Before I entered for this contest，I had already taken part in many singing contests，and I had won some prizes．I'm very confident about myself．By the way，I've heard that our school held a composition（作文）contest last week．____4____

Bob：No．I didn't think I would win it．I don't practice writing compositions much．you know．

Kim：You should write more and take every chance to practice，or your wish to become a great writer will not come true．

Bob：____5____

Kim：You're welcome．

Betty and Lingling are talking about the future. “What will our life     1   in the future?”
asks Betty. “I don’t know,” says Lingling. “What do you think?” “Well, no one knows, but it’s interesting    2  .” “We will   3 go to school. We  4 our lessons on the Internet.  When we have problems(難題), . The teacher will  5 us the answers on the Internet.
“Now almost everyone   6  a mobile phone ,but_  7 twenty years everyone will carry apocket computer.” “A lot of people will live and work under the sea.” “Machines will do lots of  8 _, and so people will have more   9 .” “ We will have some rice, vegetables and fruit for meals every day. We will not get any meat to eat because there will be   10 animals. “
“ Oh , our way of life in the future will change a lot.”

Betty and Lingling are talking about the future. “What will our life     1   in the future?”

asks Betty. “I don’t know,” says Lingling. “What do you think?” “Well, no one knows, but it’s interesting    2  .” “We will   3 go to school. We  4 our lessons on the Internet.  When we have problems(難題), . The teacher will  5 us the answers on the Internet.

“Now almost everyone   6  a mobile phone ,but_  7 twenty years everyone will carry apocket computer.” “A lot of people will live and work under the sea.” “Machines will do lots of  8 _, and so people will have more   9 .” “ We will have some rice, vegetables and fruit for meals every day. We will not get any meat to eat because there will be   10 animals. “

“ Oh , our way of life in the future will change a lot.”

1.                A．be like         B．be             C．look like D．like

2.                A．guess          B．guessing        C．guesses   D．to guess

3.                A．often          B．never          C．usually   D．a(chǎn)lways

4.                A．will think        B．will bring        C．will learn  D．will help

5.                A．take           B．give            C．talk  D．drive

6.                A．have           B．has            C．is   D．a(chǎn)re

7.                A．On            B．In             C．At   D．Of

8.                A．job            B．work           C．works    D．working

9.                A．busy time       B．busy times       C．free times     D．free time

10.               A．few           B．many          C．much D．some