【正文】 　　D，減少開銷。由此可見，在文章看來，大學對遠程教育如此熱心的原因是費用相對低廉。接下來具體分析了可以在哪些方面節(jié)約費用。文中Students themselves seem to understand the weaknesses inherent in the setup一句雖提到了遠程教育的天生弱點，但這個弱點是指reduced effort，而不是評估系統(tǒng)（evaluation system在文中根本沒有提及）。 　　文章第三段中間部分提到遠程教育的學生退學率達到了35%（While dropout rate for all freshmen at American universities is around 20 percent, the rate for online students is 35 percent），這種現象出現的原因在前一句就已經給出了：But figures indicate that the reduced effort results in a reduced mitment to the course，數字顯示少費力氣也就少用功于上課。四個選項的意思分別是： 　　A，無法保證他們付出所需的努力。這也就是可以隨時隨地學習上課的意思。 　　B，從許多不同學院和大學里選擇課程。而后也說明由于這個特點，反而使學習質量下降。但這句話是由while引導的，while在這里是“雖然”的意思，而我們知道轉折句式的后半句（“但是……”）才是陳述的重點，所以C并不是作者所要指出的一般特點。文中提到作業(yè)是由電子郵件來發(fā)送，但這是否意味著靈活性強不得而知。 　　第二段大意如下：盡管課程本身各不相同，但遠程教育還是有通常的特點，老師在網站上發(fā)布大綱、作業(yè)等，學生通過電子郵件上交作業(yè)；師生面對面的交流已經減到最少或是完全消失。 　　D，任何參加其在線課程的學生都可保證獲得學位。 　　B，所有課程都是在線提供。文章第一段以菲尼克斯大學為例說明了網絡遠程教育的流行趨勢，相關內容只有It grants degrees entirely on the basis of online instruction. It enrolls 90,000 students, a statistic used to support its claim to be the largest private university in the country這兩句話，大意是菲尼克斯大學完全以在線教育為基礎授予學位，其登記注冊了90000學生，號稱全國第一大私立大學。第二段簡單介紹了網絡遠程教育的施行方式。Passage Two 　　Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage. 　　By almost any measure, there is a boom in Internetbased instruction. In just a few years, 34 percent of American universities have begun offering some form of distance learning (DL), and among the larger schools, it’s closer to 90 percent. If you doubt the popularity of the trend, you probably haven’t heard of the University of Phoenix. It grants degrees entirely on the basis of online instruction. It enrolls 90,000 students, a statistic used to support its claim to be the largest private university in the country. 　　While the kinds of instruction offered in these programs will differ, DL usually signifies a course in which the instructors post syllabi (課程大綱), reading assignments, and schedules on Websites, and students send in their assignments by . Generally speaking, facetoface munication with an instructor is minimized or eliminated altogether. 　　The attraction for students might at first seem obvious. Primarily, there’s the convenience promised by courses on the Net: you can do the work, as they say, in your pajamas (睡衣). But figures indicate that the reduced effort results in a reduced mitment to the course. While dropout rates for all freshmen at American universities is around 20 percent, the rate for online students is 35 percent. Students themselves seem to understand the weaknesses inherent in the setup. In a survey conducted for eCornell, the DL division of Cornell University, less than a third of the respondents expected the quality of the online course to be as good as the classroom course. 　　Clearly, from the schools’ perspective, there’s a lot of money to be saved. Although some of the more ambitious programs require new investments in servers and networks to support collaborative software, most DL courses can run on existing or minimally upgraded (升級) systems. The more students who enroll in a course but don’t e to campus, the more the school saves on keeping the lights on in the classrooms, paying doorkeepers, and maintaining parking lots. And, while there’s evidence that instructors must work harder to run a DL course for a variety of reasons, they won’t be paid any more, and might well be paid less. 　　注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。 　　C，孩子應被給予通過經歷實現成長的自由。而A暗含的意思是無論孩子想要表達什么，都不要有所限制，與文意并不相符。給出建議是第四段的內容，這段的大意是：第一步，我不再干擾孩子，而后，給她空間的同時又能在需要時隨時提供幫助。 　　第四段第二句說作者自認為是一個有經驗的作家，之后寫到女兒的作品被作者按自己的經驗、想法改造成了另外一個故事，進而把比賽當成了自己的比賽。文中雖有guiding the young writer across the hall這句，似乎作者是想把女兒培養(yǎng)成作家，但這只是作者為了說明自己當時的心情而打的比方而已。 　　B，她擔心麗貝卡寫作時的想象力過于狂野。 　　60. D 　　題目問作者花費了很多心力去修改女兒的故事，原因是什么。這一點與文意不符。因此A的說法站不住腳。根據第二段前半部分的敘述可知，作者品嘗過失敗，體驗過小說被退稿的感受，承受過保住榮譽的壓力，恰好可以由D的說法來概括。從文章大體可以推斷出作者是一個成功的作家，一個成功作家不可能大部分作品都被退稿?！?　　A，她經常處在要寫作更多作品的壓力之下。 　　作者介紹自己的寫作經歷是在文章的第二段前半部分。另外寫小說本身也許即是麗貝卡的享受空閑時間的方式，那樣的話她也就是在完全地享受自己的空閑時間，C的敘述不對。從mindless（沒頭腦的, 不用腦子的）一詞可以看出，作者對這些活動至少是持有懷疑態(tài)度的。there is no shortage of mindless activities to keep a child occupied中的 shortage是“少”的意思，但no shortage of并不僅指有一些，而是“較為豐富”，如there is no shortage of tall buildings here，這里的高樓可不少。她想要拿出一篇小說來參加一個寫作大賽。 　　這篇文章個人寫作風格明顯，語言平易，因而詞匯量不大，句子結構也較簡單，理解起來并不存在太大的問題，較少見到明顯的疑難部分。 　　Passage One 　　Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage. 　　In this age of Internet chat, videogames and reality television, there is no shortage of mindless activities to keep a child occupied. Yet, despite the petition, my 8yearold daughter Rebecca wants to spend her leisure time writing short stories. She wants to enter one of her stories into a writing contest, a petition she won last year. 　　As a writer I know about winning contests, and about losing them. I know what it is like to work hard on a story only to receive a rejection slip from the publisher. I also know the pressures of trying to live up to a reputation created by previous victories. What if she doesn’t win the contest again? That’s the strange thing about being a parent. So many of our own past scars and dashed hopes can surface. 　　A revelation (啟示) came last week when I asked her, “Don’t you want to win again?” “No,” she replied, “I just want to tell the story of an angel going to first grade.” 　　I had just spent weeks correcting her stories as she spontaneously (自發(fā)地) told them. Telling myself that I was merely an experienced writer guiding the young writer across the hall, I offered suggestions for characters, conflicts and endings for her tales. The story about a fearful angel starting first grade was quickly “guided” by me into the tale of a little girl with a wild imagination taking her first music lesson. I had turned her contest into my contest without even realizing it. 　　Staying back and giving kids space to grow is not as easy as it looks. Because I know very little about farm animals who use tools or angels who go to first grade, I had to accept the fact that I was coopting (