Question 31. What is the passage mainly about?
A. Students’ travelling preferences B. A traditional approach to spring breaks
C. American students’ social life D. Students’ alternative spring breaks
Question 32. Which of the following is NOT TRUE as problems that alternative spring break trips try to help solve? A.environmental damage B. homelessness C. poverty D. overpopulation
Question 33. The word “cite” in paragraph 2 probably means ________. A. list B. get C. avoid D. invent
Question 34. The word “them” in paragraph 1 refers to _______. A.degrees B. people C. projects D. students
Question 35.Which of the following is TRUE about the reasons for which students participate in alternative spring break trips? A. They want to earn more money.
B. They wish to get away from family and friends.
C. They desire to travel to glamorous places.
D. They wish to help other people.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42. The incredible growth of the Internet over recent years has caused problems for parents and teachers. Parents worry about which sites their children spend time on, who they chat to online and the possible effects that computer games might have on them. For teachers, meanwhile, the main worry is the way the Internet makes cheating easier!
Schools and universities say there has been a huge increase in plagiarism – taking other people's words and ideas and pretending that they are your own. In the past, anyone who wanted to copy had to go to a library, find the right books, read through them, find the sections they needed and then physically write down the words they wanted to use. Nowadays, though, students can simply copy extracts from websites- while really desperate students sometimes copy whole essays! As if thiswasn't bad enough, sites offering to actually do homework – at a price – have also started appearing.
Despite all this, we shouldn't assume that the Internet only brings problems. Indeed, you could say that for every problem the Internet creates, it also brings a solution. Parents can now use sophisticated controls to stop kids accessing sites that might do them harm, while new software helps teachers to detect copied work immediately. Many, of course, are already able to recognize when someone is cheating! Some students suddenly start using words they can't possibly understand like "dialectical antagonism","explains one teacher," or "parts of their essays feel different."
One of the hardest things for teachers today is deciding how to mix modern technology with traditional study skills – and how best to use the Web in class. As more and more schools install computers in every classroom, the role of the teacher is changing. Making sure students don't just copy things and do learn how to quote copied work properly is part of their job, but so is designing suitable projects to fully exploit the Web in helping students students learn about subjects and develop their life and social skills
( Adapted from Pre- Intermidiate Outcomes by Hugh Dellar $ Andrew Walkley)
