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Passage Thirty-three （Importance of a puter）
As citizens of advanced but vulnerable economies, we must either relentlessly increase the quality of our skills or see our standard of living erode. For the future, petition between nations will be increasingly based on technological skill. Oil and natural resources will still be important, but they no longer will determine a nation's economic strength. This will now be a matter of the way people anize them selves and the nature and quality of their work. Japan and the “new Japans ”of East Asia are demonstrating this point in ways that are being painfully obvious to the older industrial countries.
There is simply no way to rest on our past achievements. Today's petition renders obsolete huge chunks of what we know and what forces us to innovate. For each individual. Several careers will be customary, and continuing education and retraining will be inescapable. To attain this extraordinary level of education, government, business, schools, and even individuals will turn to technology for the answer.
In industry, processing the information and designing the changes necessary to keep up with the market has meant the growing use of puters. The schools are now following close behind. Already some colleges in the United States are requiting a puter for each student. It is estimated that 500,000 puters are already in use in American high schools and elementary schools. Although there is an abysmal lack of educational software, the number of puters in schools expands rapidly.
The puter is the Proteus of machines, as it takes on a thousand forms and serves a thousand functions. But its truly revolutionary character can be seen in its interactive potential. With advanced puters, learning can be individualized and self-paced. Teachers can bee more productive and the entire learning environment enriched.
It is striking how much current teaching is a product of pencil and paper technology. With the puter's capacity for simulation and diverse kinds of feedback, all sorts of new possibilities open up for the redesign of curriculums. Seymour Papert, the inventor of the puter language LOGO, believes that concepts in physics and advanced mathematics can be taught in the early grades with the use of puters. On every-day level, word-processing significantly improves the capacity for written expression. In terms of drill and practice, self-paced puter-assisted instruction enables the student to advance rapidly—without being limited by the conflicting needs of the entire class. In short, once we learn to use this new brain outside the brain, education will never be the same.
Industry, faced with the pressures of a rapidly shifting market, is already designing new methods to retrain its workers, In the United States, a technological university has been set up to teach engineering courses by satellite. And the advances in telemunications and putational power will dramatically expand the opportunities for national and international efforts in education and training.
Without romanticizing the machine, it is clear that puters uniquely change the potential for equipping today's citizens for unprecedented tasks of the future. Particularly in Europe and the United States, innovation will be the basis for continued prosperity. New petitors are emerging to challenge the old economic arrangements. How successfully we respond will depend on how much we invest in people and how wisely we employ the learning tools of the new technology.
1. What is the decisive factor in future petition between nations?
[A]. Oil.
[B]. Technological skill.
[C]. Natural resources
[D] Education
2. The main idea of this passage is
[A]. Knowledge of a puter.
[B]. Importance of a puter.
[C]. Function of Knowledge.
[C]. Function of Technology.
3. Why does further study bee indispensable?
[A]. People want to so more jobs.
[B]. People want to attain this extraordinary level of education.
[C]. People would not rest on the past achievements.
[D]. What we know bees obsolete.
4. The word “Proteus” is closest in meaning to
[A]. flexibility.
[B]. diversity.
[C]. variety.
[D]. multiplicity.
Vocabulary
1. relentlessly 始终不懈的
2. obsolete 过时的，大量的，绝大部分的
3. chunk 大块，大量的，绝大部分
4. abysmal 无底的，极端的
5. Proteus 希腊神话中海神，能随意变化。这里指flexible, 灵活多变
6. take on 显现，显示
7. LOGO=logotyre 标识语，作为标志的语言
8. rapidly shifting 瞬息万变的
9. romanticizing 使浪漫化，使幻想化
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