12.In the past,if you want to learn something new,you might have to go to school or some other places to attend a class.But nowadays,there is no need for you to do so because of the appearance of the online learning.Last year,the online learning market was worth $166.5 billion.In the latest survey of Global Shapers,among 25,000 young people across the world,77.84% of them reported having taken online courses. However,the growth of online education has not been without challenges.Since its early start in the 1960s,online education has been always criticized(批評)by some people for being short of quality control,especially for being short of high-quality teachers.It's also been said that online learning keeps students away from some of the advantages of being in a classroom,such as the communication between the teacher and the students face to face.Besides,being in a classroom doesn't always demand the Internet connection and the electricity supply. Regardless of these concerns,online education has made great improvements in recent years.For starters,more and more schools of higher learning have introduced or improved their online education platforms.And a number of providers have also turned to user ratings(評價). "Star teacher",for example,has become a popular rating method in some countries.It commonly uses star symbols to show users' opinions about teachers and their lessons,which helps good teachers stand out from others. Such progress seems to have reduced the doubt about the quality of teaching,and 40.56% of people in the survey of Global Shapers have said online education is as strong as traditional learning in a classroom. The development of education technology has also made online education become easier to get and more controllable than ever before.What a student needs are a computer,an Internet connection,and some basic IT skills.As for losing some advantages of a traditional classroom,online education has been making up for this through its flexibility(靈活性)and low cost.Besides,some people say that online education has greatly helped make easier to get,thus achieving the goal of "education for all".
(1)What does the writer want to show by using the numbers in Paragraph 1?
A.Online education has been popular recently. B.People can make a lot of money online. C.There are different kinds of online classes. D.Online learning is very expensive for people. (2)What does the underlined word "demand" in Paragraph 2 mean?
A.Hope. B.Cause. C.Change. D.Require. (3)How can we understand "Star teacher" mentioned in Paragraph 3?
A.A teacher having great knowledge of stars. B.A website for users to choose their lessons. C.A way to show if a teacher is good at teaching. D.A teacher having taught online for a long time. (4)What does the last paragraph mainly talk about?
A.The advantages of online education. B.The disadvantages of online education. C.The challenges traditional teaching faces. D.The skills for attending the online classes.
13.In the Republic of Korea,many schools hire(雇) English teachers from abroad,but as you know,there are not so many native English teachers there.A team of engineers have created a robot that they hope will take the place of foreign teachers. Robots will save schools money.The cost of building a robot and hiring a Filipino teacher to work with it is around $20,000 a year.That is about half the cost of supporting a foreign teacher in the Republic of Korea.What's more,robot teachers can make students have more fun learning English. The robot teacher is called Engkey.She is about one meter tall and is white,egg shaped.She takes a screen as her face.She can move around the classroom while speaking to students,reading books to them and dancing to music by moving her head and arms.So this robot is more than a video screen on wheels.But Engkey's voice is not her own.It is controlled by an English teacher in the Philippines(菲律賓).There is a camera in each of the robot teachers.With the help of the camera,English teachers in the Philippines can see and hear the students. Engkey's creators say that they don't know how successful the robot is as a teacher now.But they hope that some day all schools in the Republic of Korea will have a robot in the classroom.
(1)According to Paragraph 1,there aren't enough
in the Republic of Korea. A.great engineers B.foreign English teachers C.English books D.smart robots (2)What are the advantages of robot teachers?
A.Saving schools money and making classes fun. B.Saving schools money and hiring a Filipino teacher. C.Catching people's attention and making classes fun. D.Catching people's attention and saving schools money. (3)What's the cost of hiring two English teachers from abroad in the Republic of Korea a year?
I'm in Class Two,Grade Six.I have two new(新的) subjects this year.They are science and history.My favorite day is Thursday because I have science.(2)
Linda is my sister.Linda and I go to the same school.She is in Class Three,Grade Eight.(3)
Her favorite days are Monday and Thursday because she has English. My father is a math teacher in our school.(4)
His favorite day is Sunday because he can go to the soccer club(俱樂部). My mother's favorite day is Saturday because she doesn't go to work(工作).She likes playing tennis.(5)
A.She likes English. B.He likes playing soccer. C.I'm a middle school student. D.We all like singing on the weekends. E.And she can play tennis with her friends. F.It is my favorite subject.
15.閱讀下面短文,按要求完成后面5個小題。 Saturday is Mary's favorite day of the week.On Saturday,after cleaning her room.Mary can go out. It's a nice Saturday morning. Mary wants to go to the park with her friend Helen.Before she gets out of the house,little Joe says, "Mom,Mary will go out without (沒有) cleaning her room." Mary stops and looks back at her little brother unhappily. "Mary,is it true (真的)?" asks Mom. "Well," Mary says, "I just forgot (忘記).It's a beautiful day and you know I
sunny days." Mom says, "Mary,I know you love sunny days.But you need to clean your room first.I must teach you about responsibility (責任)." "OK,I'll do the cleaning." Mary says. (1)完成句子 Mary's favorite day is
. (2)完成句子 Joe is Mary's
. (3)What does Mary's mother ask her to do first?(簡略回答)
27.Write a passage of at least 60 words about the topic "A Thing Unfinished" (以"一件未竟之事"為題寫一篇不少于60個詞的短文,標點符號不占格。) 提示:人們似乎總有忙不完的事,而往往是那些未竟之事更令人在意。你有什么事情是未完成的嗎?這件未竟之事在你心里又占據著怎樣的位置呢?