Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each w

Directions: Complete the following passage by usingthe words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is oneword more than you need.

A. contact    B.include   C. announced    D.public     E. especially

F. growing  G. leader   H.range      I. available  J. separately

Knowledge is free on the Internet at a small but __1.___number of colleges and universities.

About 160 schools around the world now put free coursematerials on the web to the ___2.___. Recent additions in the United States ___3.___projects at Yale,  Johns Hopkins and the University of California,Berkeley.

Berkeley said it would offer videos of lectures onYouTube. Free videos from other schools are ___4.___ at the Apple iTunes store.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)became an early ___5.___with its Open Course Ware project, first ___6.___ in2001. Free lecture notes, exams and other resources are published atocw.mit.edu. Many exams even include the answers.

Today, Open Course Ware offers materials from 1,800undergraduate and graduate courses. These  ___7.___ from physics topolitical science.

Visitors can learn the same things that M.I.T.students learn. But as the site points out, Open Course Ware is not a M.I.T.education. Visitors receive no credit toward a degree. Some materials from acourse may not be available, and the site does not provide ___8.___ withteachers.

Still, M.I.T. says that the site has had forty millionvisits by thirty-one million visitors from almost every country. Sixty percentof the visitors are from outside the United States and Canada.

Students and educators use the site, includingstudents at M.I.T. But the largest number of visitors, about half, areself-learners.

Some professors have become well-known around theworld as a result of appearing online. Walter Lewin, a physics professor atM.I.T., is ___9.___ popular. Fans enjoy his entertaining lectures.

M.I.T. Open Course Ware now includes materials forhigh school. The aim is to improve education in science, technology, maths andengineering.

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【答案】

1.F

2.D

3.B

4.I

5.G

6.C

7.H

8.A

9.E

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