Is it hard for you to get up early and get ready for classes ? Some students at Winter Park High School just quickly get up and go to class in their own bedrooms. Of course, their teachers and classmates do not see them because all their class work is on the computer.
The Florida High School, the state’s only on-line school, has 250 students who are taking classes at home by computers.
“I’m a lot more comfortable at home,” said Luke Levesque, a 16-year-old who is taking a computer class on line. He thinks (A) the school’s computer lab is so noisy that he can’t study well.” Home is much better,” he says.
Students in this first on-line program take classes in math, American government, chemistry, computer, and Web-page design. They also have to go to regular( 正规的) school to attend other classes.
When a student is ready to begin in class, he or she (B) _______the computer, reads the teacher’s instructions, and begins working on the lesson for the day. What happens if a student has a question for the teacher ? Or the teacher wants to say something about the work a students is doing ? The student and the teacher talk to each other every day through e-mail or by telephone.
Is it easy for students to cheat on tests(考试作弊) when they’re working at home ? (C) The teachers have already thought about this. They make students take their final exams in person in the classroom.
“You see most of the same things on-line that you see in a regular classroom,” says teacher Linda Hayes.
If this first on-line program goes well, in three years Florida High School students will be able to take all their classes by computer. When that happens, students will be able to get their high school diplomas(毕业证书) without having to (D) 走进教室。
1.将划线部分(A)改写成 the school’s computer lab is_______noisy for_______to study well.
2.在(B)的空白处填入一个适当的词语________________________
3.将划线部分(C)译成汉语__________________________________________________
4.将划线部分(D)译成英语_____________________________________________________
5.在正文中找出能够说明主题的短语
_____________________________________________________________________________
1. too, him
2.turns on / works on / uses
3.老师们已经考虑到这个问题了。
4.enter (go into; come into; study in) a / the classroom
5.taking (take ) classes at home by computer.