Nobody can foresee (A) how the future (B)holds for any of us. There are social, emotional and moral (C) considerations in our future that cannot be (D) foreseen.
A;“how”改为“what”。
Nobody can foresee (A) how the future (B)holds for any of us. There are social, emotional and moral (C) considerations in our future that cannot be (D) foreseen.
A;“how”改为“what”。
Out of all the students who enroll in a massive open online course(MOOC), only about 5 percent complete the course and receive a certificate of accomplishment. This statistic is often cited as evidence that MOOCs are fatally flawed(有缺陷的)and offer little educational value to most students. Yet more than 80 percent of students who fill out a post-course survey say they met their primary objective. How do we look at these two facts?We’re used to focusing on completion rates in higher education, but they’re not the only—or even the most meaningful—indicator of engagement in open online courses. With no cost to enroll, no punishment for dropping out, and little reward for actually earning a certificate, MOOCs are fundamentally different from traditional classes—and students use them in fundamentally different ways.Data from more than 1.8 million students enrolled in 36 MOOCs offered by the University of Pennsylvania show that students treat MOOCs like a buffet(自助餐),sampling the material according to their interests and career goals. Some are curious about the subject matter and just watch one or two video lectures; others use the discussion forums to connect with their intellectual peers around the world. Of all enrolled students, nearly 60 percent watch at least one video, complete at least one assignment, or post at least once in a forum.So focusing on the tiny fraction of students who complete a MOOC is misguided. The more important number is the 60 percent engagement rate. Students may not finish a MOOC with a certificate of accomplishment, but the courses nonetheless meet the educational goals of millions.1. What do we learn about MOOCs from Para.1?2. In Para. 2, the author stresses ( ).3. According to Para. 3, students choose MOOCs for the following reasons EXCEPT ( ).4. The sentence “students treat MOOCs as a buffet”( Para. 3)( ).5. What is the author’s attitude toward MOOCs?
Only when she finished all the work ( )be allowed to go home.
They key( )success is hard work and persistence.
Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter, Elisabeth, spoke of the “unsettling dearth(缺乏)of integrity across so many of our institutions”. Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism” in society should be profit and the market. But “it’s us, human beings, we the people who create the society we want, not profit”.Driving her point home, she continued: “It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous foals for capitalism and freedom.” This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International, shield thought, making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking.As the hacking trial concludes---finding guilty one ex-editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones, and finding his predecessor, Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge—the wider issue of dearth of integrity still standstill. Journalists are known to have hacked the phones of up to 5,500 people. This is hacking on an industrial scale, as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking. Others await trial. This long story still unfolds.In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place. One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, how little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired how the stories arrived. The core of her successful defense was that she knew nothing.In today’s world, title has become normal that well-paid executives should not be accountable for what happens in the organizations that they run perhaps we should not be so surprised. For a generation, the collective doctrine has been that the sorting mechanism of society should be profit. The words that have mattered are efficiency, flexibility, shareholder value, business-friendly, wealth generation, sales, impact and, in newspapers, circulation. Words degraded to the margin have been justice fairness, tolerance, proportionality and accountability.The purpose of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding to be fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity. It was to ruin lives in the quest for circulation and impact. Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions about how her journalists got their stories, but she asked no questions, gave no instructions---nor received traceable, recorded answers.1.According to the first two paragraphs, Elisabeth was upset by( ).2.It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that( ).3.The author believes that Rebekah Brooks’s deference( ).4.The author holds that the current collective doctrine shows( ).5.Which of the following is suggested in the last paragraph?
Directions: Write on the ANSWER SHEET a composition of about 200 words on the following topic:
If I Were a University President