Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.

There was a time when parents who wanted an educational present for their children would buy a typewriter, a globe or art encyclopedia set. Now those 【A1】_____ seem hopelessly old fashioned; this Christmas, there were a lot of 【A2】_____ computers under the tree 【A3】_____ that computers are the key to success, parents are also frantically insisting that children 【A4】_____ taught to use them in school—as early as possible.

The problem for schools is that when it 【A5】 _____ computers, parents don’t always know best. Many schools are 【A6】 _____ parental impatience and are purchasing hardware 【A7】_____sound educational planning so they can say, “OK, we’ve moved into the computer age.” Teachers 【A8】 _____ themselves caught in the middle of the problem—between parent pressure and 【A9】 _____ educational decisions.

Educators do not even agree 【A10】 _____ how computers should be used. A lot of money is going for computerized educational materials 【A11】 _____ research has shown can be taught 【A12】 _____ with pencil and paper. Even those who believe that all children should 【A13】 _____ to computers, warn of potential 【A14】 _____ to the very young.

The temptation remains strong largely because young children 【A15】 _____ so well to computers. First graders have been 【A16】 _____ willing to work for two hours on maths skills. Some have all attention span of 20 minutes. 【A17】 _____ school can afford to go into computing, and that creates 【A18】 _____ another problem: a division between the haves and have-nots. Very few parents are agitating 【A19】 _____ computer instruction in poor school districts, 【A20】 _____ there may be barely enough money to pay the reading teacher.