Question

    Increased use of the Internet and mobile phones are undermining pupils’ capacity for independent study and promoting poor grammar, it was claimed.

Cranfield School of Management found almost six in 10 schoolchildren were copying information directly from websites for homework tasks without properly reading it.

More than a quarter thought it was an acceptable practice, even though they know it was considered plagiarism (剽窃). The study, based on a sample of around 260 pupils aged from 11 to 18 at a secondary school in the Midlands, raised fresh concerns that modern technology was having a destructive effect on young people. Andrew Kakabadse, professor of International Management Development at Cranfield, said, “Our research shows that technology obsession prevents spelling skills, encourages plagiarism, and disturbs classroom learning.

“Despite school policies restricting mobile phone usage, students use the phone frequently, with the majority making calls from the toilets. The mobile phone continues to be a main channel of social communication during the school day.”

The report revealed that so-called “text-speak’’ was increasingly finding it was into pupils’ school work. Three in 10 students admit to using text message shortcuts, such as “ruok” in essays and classroom tasks.

It followed a study earlier this year that found almost half of teachers failed to understand some pupils’ writing because it was so full of confusing language. Phrases such as “innit” and “Gr8” were regularly found in school work, it was claimed. The Cranfield study found that mobile use was so common that many pupils chose to ignore school rules on phones.

More than a third said they would use their mobile in class, while nearly three quarters said they would not even make an excuse to leave class to answer a phone call.

1.The underlined word “undermining” in the first paragraph can best be replaced by “_________”.

A.keeping B.determining

C.weakening D.increasing

2.It can be inferred from what Kakabadse said that _________.

A.he believes schools are responsible for technology obsession

B.he is in favour of students’ mobile phone usage at school

C.the research finds a new way to improve school management

D.it is hard to limit students’ mobile phone usage at school

3.The passage is mainly about _________.

A.technology’s positive influence on students’ achievement

B.the negative effect of technology on students’ study

C.the importance of online social communication

D.the rapidly growing role of communication technologies

4.What’s the attitude of the author to the problem?

A.Approving. B.Optimistic. C.Anxious. D.Tolerant.

Answer

1.C

2.D

3.B

4.C

【解析】

这是一篇说明文。作者在文章中提到使用互联网和手机的学生越来越多了。可是，科技不仅给学生们带来了便捷，也给他们的学习带来了很多的不利影响。

1.

词义猜测题。可以根据第一段中and promoting poor grammar（而且还会导致语法问题）可以推测前句提到的过多使用互联网会对学生学习能力的影响也是不好的。此处应该是“削弱”了学生的学习能力。A. keeping保持；B. determining决定；C. weakening 削弱；D. increasing 提高。故选C项。

2.

推理判断题。根据文章第四段“Despite school policies restricting mobile phone usage, students use the phone frequently, with the majority making calls from the toilets. The mobile phone continues to be a main channel of social communication during the school day.”（尽管学校有限制手机使用的规定，但学生们还是频繁地使用手机，其中大多数人都在厕所里打电话。在学校生活中，手机仍然是社会交流的主要渠道）可知，限制学生在校使用手机很困难。故选D项。

3.

主旨大意题。根据文章第一段Increased use of the Internet and mobile phones are undermining pupils’ capacity for independent study and promoting poor grammar, it was claimed（报告称，互联网和手机的使用越来越多，不仅削弱了学生的自主学习能力，而且还会导致语法问题）可知，高科技的使用对孩子的学习有不好的影响。故选B项。

4.

推理判断题。在文章第一段，作者认为过多使用手机会undermining（削弱）学生的学习能力以及会导致poor grammar（语法问题），同时在第二段提到学生会利用手机copying information directly from websites for homework tasks without properly reading it（不经过仔细阅读，直接从网站上抄袭答案做家庭作业）。由此可见，从文章的字里行间可以看出作者对学生使用高科技产品诸如手机之类持忧虑态度。A. Approving 赞成的；B. Optimistic 乐观的；C. Anxious 焦虑的；D. Tolerant 宽容的。故选C项。