Question

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. contact    B. include   C. announced    D. public     E. especially

F. growing  G. leader   H. range      I. available  J. separately

Knowledge is free on the Internet at a small but __1.___ number of colleges and universities.

About 160 schools around the world now put free course materials on the web to the ___2.___. Recent additions in the United States ___3.___ projects at Yale,  Johns Hopkins and the University of California, Berkeley.

Berkeley said it would offer videos of lectures on YouTube. Free videos from other schools are ___4.___ at the Apple iTunes store.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) became an early ___5.___with its Open Course Ware project, first ___6.___ in 2001. Free lecture notes, exams and other resources are published at ocw.mit.edu. Many exams even include the answers.

Today, Open Course Ware offers materials from 1,800 undergraduate and graduate courses. These  ___7.___ from physics to political science.

Visitors can learn the same things that M.I.T. students learn. But as the site points out, Open Course Ware is not a M.I.T. education. Visitors receive no credit toward a degree. Some materials from a course may not be available, and the site does not provide ___8.___ with teachers.

Still, M.I.T. says that the site has had forty million visits by thirty-one million visitors from almost every country. Sixty percent of the visitors are from outside the United States and Canada.

Students and educators use the site, including students at M.I.T. But the largest number of visitors, about half, are self-learners.

Some professors have become well-known around the world as a result of appearing online. Walter Lewin, a physics professor at M.I.T., is ___9.___ popular. Fans enjoy his entertaining lectures.

M.I.T. Open Course Ware now includes materials for high school. The aim is to improve education in science, technology, maths and engineering.

Answer

1.F

2.D

3.B

4.I

5.G

6.C

7.H

8.A

9.E

【解析】

试题分析：这篇文章主要讲了在一些高校的网站上，有免费的知识，这些高校为数不多，数量却一直在增加。现在，全世界大概有160所学校向公众提供免费的在线课程材料。

1.这里想说许多大学院校将他们的课程免费放在英特网上，尽管院校不多，但数量却在不断增长，故用growing。 

2.这里想说现在，全世界大约有160所学校把免费的课程材料放在网上，以供公众学习，故用public。

3.这里想说在美国，最近增加了耶鲁大学、约翰霍普金斯大学和加州大学柏克莱分校的项目，故用include。

4.这里想说柏克莱分校称，它将在YouTube网上提供讲课的视频。在苹果iTunes商店中有其他学校的免费视频，故填available。

5.这里想说麻省理工学院是其开放式课程项目的早期领导者，它于2001年首次宣布此项目，故填leader。

6.这里想说它于2001年首次宣布此项目，故填announced。

7.这里想说今天，开放式课程提供了1800个本科生和研究生的课程资料。这些课程从物理和线性代数，到人类学、政治学，甚至水肺潜水，都有涉及，故用range。

8.这里想说一些课程中的材料网站上并没有，且网站也不帮助联系相关老师。，故填contact。

9.根据由于在网上的曝光，一些教授变得世界知名。例如麻省理工物理学教授沃尔特.莱文，由于大量爱好者喜欢他充满乐趣的演示和讲解而备受欢迎，故填especially。

考点：教育类短文阅读理解