Question

【題目】Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A pen has always been a(n) 【1】 tool when it comes to taking exams. However, in this digital age, this traditional tool may become a thing of the past.

Cambridge University in Britain is considering ending 800 years of written exams and allowing students to use laptops or ipads to take exams instead.

The move comes after Cambridge teachers complained that students’ handwriting is becoming too hard to recognize. The 【2】 in being able to write neatly could largely be down to the 【3】 on laptops in lectures and elsewhere.

“There has definitely been a(n) 【4】 trend. It is difficult for both the students and the examiners as it is harder and harder to read these scripts," Sarah Pearsall, a senior lecturer at the university, told The Telegraph.

As a result, more and more students with poor handwriting are being 【5】 to return to university during the summer holidays to read their answers aloud to university administrators

However, some 【6】 the move, fearing the handwritten word would become a lost art. Tracy Trussell, a handwriting expert at the British Institute of Graphologists, 【7】 Cambridge to " make sure that students continue to write by hand, particularly in lectures". She told The Telegraph that writing by hand could help students improve their memory and understand lessons better.

Meanwhile, there are also concerns that primary and secondary schools could follow Cambridge's example

In fact, a similar plan was carried out for some first- and second-year students at Edinburgh University in the UK in 2011, reported The Scotsman. Senior officials at the university believed it was 【8】 to expect students to use pens and paper during exams when most of their coursework was done using computers.

The move also echoes the opinions of Harvard professor Eric Mazur, known as the father of the" flipped classroom(翻轉(zhuǎn)課堂). He believes that the rise of mobile Internet 【9】 means that we live in an age in which we don’t need to memorize anything Students should be tested on their creative and 【10】 skills, rather than the ability to remember information, he said during the Times Higher Education World Academic Summit in September.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】F

【2】K

【3】I

【4】B

【5】H

【6】J

【7】E

【8】D

【9】C

【10】G

【解析】

這是一篇夾敘夾議的文章。文章主要講了筆一直是考試時必不可少的工具。然而，在這個數(shù)字時代，這種傳統(tǒng)工具可能會成為過去。

【1】考查詞義和語境理解。句意：筆一直是考試時必不可少的工具。本空詞性為形容詞，所修飾的名詞是tool，此處適合的詞是essential，essential基本的，故選F。

【2】考查詞義和語境理解。句意：書寫能力下降的主要原因可能是在課堂或其他地方對筆記本電腦的依賴。本空詞性為名詞，從第三段第一句可推知人們的書寫能力在下降，因此本空為fall，fall下降，故選K。

【3】考查詞義和語境理解。句意：書寫能力下降的主要原因可能是在課堂或其他地方對筆記本電腦的依賴。本空詞性為名詞，be down to意思是由于，由于依賴電腦，人們的書寫能力下降，reliance依賴，故選I。

【4】考查詞義和語境理解。句意：肯定有下降的趨勢。本空詞性為形容詞，上下文推知，整潔書寫的趨勢是下降的，因此本空填downward，downward下降的，故選B。

【5】考查詞義和語境理解。句意：因此，最后越來越多書寫較差的學(xué)生被強制返校，把他們的答案讀給大學(xué)行政人員聽。本空詞性為動詞，且為被動形式，因此為force，force強迫，故選H。

【6】考查詞義和語境理解。句意：然而，一些人批評這一舉動，擔(dān)心手寫文字會成為一種失傳的藝術(shù)。本空缺少真正的謂語動詞，criticized批評，故選J。

【7】考查詞義和語境理解。句意：英國筆跡研究所的筆跡專家特蕾西·特魯塞爾敦促劍橋“確保學(xué)生繼續(xù)手寫，尤其是在課堂上”。本空也缺少真正的謂語動詞，urged敦促，故選E。

【8】考查詞義和語境理解。句意：當(dāng)大多數(shù)的作業(yè)都在電腦上完成時，期待學(xué)生考試中使用筆紙是不公平的。本空需要形容詞，unfair不公平的，故選D。

【9】考查詞義和語境理解。句意：他認(rèn)為，移動互聯(lián)網(wǎng)接入的興起意味著，我們生活在一個不需要記住任何東西的時代，學(xué)生們應(yīng)該測試他們的創(chuàng)造力和分析能力，而不是記住信息的能力。access vt.使用，存取，接近 n.進(jìn)入，使用權(quán)，故選C。

【10】考查詞義和語境理解。句意：他認(rèn)為，移動互聯(lián)網(wǎng)接入的興起意味著，我們生活在一個不需要記住任何東西的時代，學(xué)生們應(yīng)該測試他們的創(chuàng)造力和分析能力，而不是記住信息的能力。此處需要形容詞，并且與creative并列，analytical ability是一種分析能力，故選G。