单选题. Britain's secondary and primary schools will be able to exchange details of sports fixtures (竞赛项目), general school activities, computer software lessons and personal messages through a new microcomputer-based network 1 yesterday by The Times Network Systems, a subsidiary (子公司) of News International. The network, 2 The Times Network for Schools (TTNS), has already attracted the interest of 80 local education authorities in the past few months during 3 development stage. The schools on the system link into the computers 4 by British Telecom's Electronic Mail Service Telecom Gold. On these computers are more than 50 categories of 5 including a section on careers. The system will have more than 1200,000 pages of information 6 the end of next year. The network, designed for education, offers lessons on specific 7 , and examinations can be conducted on it. The computer pages will be contributed by sources 8 local education authorities and industry and commerce. According to the creators of the network, schools 9 the country will be able to exchange information at a fraction of the commercial price. "The network will also provide 10 links between education, industry, commerce and the professions by helping young people understand the requirements of their future employers and 11 , making them familiar with the new technology." Schools using the system can transmit selected pages 12 telephone lines in seconds. Each school on the system will pay $69 for a 12-week term. An electronic back box and the software 13 to link the school microcomputer with the network will cost $52. The aim is to attract 14 many of the country's 6,500 secondary schools and 400 teacher training centers on to the network as possible. The next 15 , within 12 months, will be to market the network to 27,000 primary schools. The British network is the start of 16 could become a European operation. The designers want to 17 it to Holland, Germany and France. Computers will transform education by the end of the century, allowing more children to study 18 , according to a book published yesterday. (Colin Hughes writes.) Ray Hammond, the author, expects that, 19 schools will continue to exist, "they 20 be in the same form as they have been."1.

单选题15. Compassion for the poor boys caused him to give money for their support.

单选题7. doctrine

单选题17. People often said that failing health dwindled ambition.

单选题16. He contemplated the difficult situation he had to face.

单选题8. Both parties promised to adhere to the contract to be signed the following day.

单选题17. He often extended selfless help to families ______.

单选题9. My father decided to make me go back to college immediately, study my lessons carefully, and ______.

单选题13. He has always assorted with men of his age.

单选题13. Young people are bracketed into groups.

单选题10. adjoin

单选题1. in abundance

单选题9. No one in the adjacent apartments was awakened by their quarreling sounds.

单选题13. I felt ______ when I heard I had passed the interview.

单选题3. The question of where we go on holiday is purely academic, since we don't have any money.

单选题14. If a person breaks into a house at night in order to steal, he is called burglar.

单选题16. Television has taken a dominant role in shaping popular opinion in the late 20th century.

单选题13. Some people believe the popular youth culture of today alienates adults and prevents communication between the generations.

单选题. Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened 1 . As was discussed before, it was not 2 the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic 3 , following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the 4 of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution 5 up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading 6 through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures 7 the 20th-century world of the motor car and the airplane. Not everyone sees that process in 8 . It is important to do so. It is generally recognized, 9 , that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, 10 . by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, 11 its impact on the media was not immediately 12 . As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as 13 , with display becoming sharper and storage 14 increasing. They were thought of, like people, 15 generations, with the distance between generations much 16 . It was within the computer age that the term "information society" began to be widely used to describe the 17 within which we now live. The communications revolution has 18 both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been 19 views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. "Benefits" have been weighed 20 "harmful" outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.1.

单选题19. These impartial witnesses can clarify that the goods were faultless.