the first year students will use computers in the language lessons.
-> computers will be used by the first year students in the language lessons
the first year students will use computers in the language lessons.
-> computers will be used by the first year students in the language lessons
1. the children were very joyful, they had a wonderful holiday last weekend.
-> the children who ...
2. the first year students will use computers in the language lesons.
-> computers ....
3. how about using banana leaves to wrap food?
-> he suggests ...
: Read the passage and circle the best option from A, B, C or D
Laptop computers are popular all over the world. People use them on trains and airplanes, in airports and hotels. These laptop connect people to their workplace. In the United States today, laptop also connect students to their classroom.
Westlake College in Virgina will start a laptop computer program that allows students to do schoolwork anywhere they want. Within five years, each of the 1500 students at the college will receive a laptop. The laptop are part of a $10 million computer program at Westlake,a 100-year-old college. The students with laptops will also have access to the Internet. In addition, they will be able to use e-mail to ‘speak’ with their teachers, their classmates and their families. However, the most important part of the laptop program is that students will be able to use computers without going to computer labs. They can work with it at home, in a fast food restaurant or under the trees- anywhere at all!
Because of the many changes in computer techonology, laptop use in higher education, such as colleges and universities, is workable. As laptops become powerful, they become more similar to desktop computers. In addition, the portable computers can connect students to not only the Internet, but also libraries and other resources. State higher education officials are studying how laptops can help students. State officials are also use testing laptop program at other universities, too.
At Westlake College, more than 60 percent of the staff use computers. The laptops will allow all teachers to use computers in their lesson. As one Westlake teacher said. “ Here we are in the middle of Virginia and we’re giving students a window on the world. They can see everything and do everything.
1. The main purpose of the laptop program is to give each student a laptop to___________
A. use for their schoolwork B. access the Internet
C. work at home D. connect them to libraries
2. The word “speak” in the second paragraph is similar in meaning to?
A. interact B.express C. work D. use
3. Which of the following is true about Westlake College ?
A. All teachers use computers B. 1500 students have laptops
C. It is an old college in American D. Students there can do everything
4. “A window on the world” in the last paragraph means that students can________________
A. attend lectures on information technology B. travel around the world
C. get information from around the world D. have free laptops
5. What can we infer from the passage?
A. The program is successful. B. The program is not workable.
C. The program is too expensive. D. We don’t know the result yet.
Choose the word or pharse (a,b,c or d) that best fits the blank space in the follwing passage
A revolutionary change in human life(1) ......... when early poeple began farming. People did not devolop writing systems(2) .......... thousands of year water. However, in a little more than fifty year people have(3) ............ computers that can do most of the (4) ............ which human beings can do! Such(5)............ is a little frightening. Will we use computers to control (6) ............. world and make wars(7) .............. more terrible than they are now? Or will we use them to(8) ............. the quality of life for all(9) .............. ? The students of today will have to dicide(10) ........... The computers of tomorrow.
1. A. Occurred b. Depended c. Amazed d. Provided
2. A. To b. From c. Unti d. In
3. A. Invented b. Developed c. Contributed d. Devoted
4. A. Ways b. Works c. Actions d. Things
5. A. Movement b. Advantage
C. Progress d. Transmit
6. A. The b. A c. An d. No artucle
7. A. So b. Such c. Too d. even
8. A. Exchange b. Improve c. Succeed d. Supply
9. A. Human b. Humane c. How using d. Humanist
10. A. To use b. Using c. How using d. How to use
10. Dùng động từ trong ngoặc ở dạng dúng The world's first computer (1) ..........(build) at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946,although computer-like machines (2).........(build) in the 19th century.Computers(3)..........(sell)commercially for the first time in the 1950s, and progress (4)..........(make)since than.Computers are now much smaller and more powerful, and they can (5).........(buy)much more cheaply. Computers (6).........(use) in many fields - in business, science, medicine and education. They can (7).........(use) to forecast the weather or to control robots which make cars. The computer's memory is the where information (8).......... (keep) and calculations (9)..... (do). A computer can not think for place itself. It must (10) ..........(tell) exacly what to do.A lot of calculations can (11).........(do)very quickly on a computer Computer don't make mistakes. Stories (12) .........(hear) sometimes about computers paying people too much money or sending them bills for things they didn't by. These mistakes (13) .........(make)by the programmers. Some years ago, an American computer-controlled rocket went out of control and had(14)......... (destroy). The accident (15) .........(cause) by a small mistake in one line of the program,which cost the USA 18 million dollars. Criminals have found that "computer crimes" are a lot easier than robbing banks. Hundreds of millions of dollars (16)..........(steal)from bunesses every by people changing the information in computers. Large numbers of home computers (17).........(sell) recently. People know more about computers than they used to, and computers are playing a bigger part in our lives. Progress (18).......... .(make) all the time. Many people believe we can look forward to the day when even our household jobs like cleaning and decorating (19)........(do) by computer-controlled robots.
Cloze-test:
COMPUTERS: GOOD OR BAD
For good or bad, computers are now (1) _____ of our daily life. With the (2) _____ of a small home computer now as low as $50, experts predict that before long all schools and businesses and most families in richer parts of the world will own a (3) _____ of some kind. Among general public, computers arouse strong feelings - people either love them (4) _____ hate them.
The computer-lovers talk about how useful computers can be in business, in education and in the home. Apart (5) _____ all the games, you can do your accounts on them, learn languages from them, write letters on them and in some places you even do your shopping with them. Computers, they say, will also bring more leisure, as more and more unpleasant jobs are taken (6) _____ by computerized robots.
The latter, on the (7) _____ hand, argue that computers bring not leisure but unemployment. They worry, too, that people (8) _____ spend all the time talking to comouters will forget (9) _____ to talk to each other. Their biggest fear (10) _____ that computers may eventually take overfrom human being altogether.
Computers play an important part in our life nowadays. It's (1)...............to carry on our work without computers : for example, computers are necessary in a university library. All the(2)..........normally found in a library is now (3)...........in computers. This is very convenient for students because they can (4)..........messages and receive information without leaving their computers. Access(5)............a computer has (6)...................student's need.
(1) ( easy/difficult/exiting/interesting)
(2) ( information/work/life/event)
(3) ( taken/ stored/ put/ made)
(4) ( receive/give/ write/send)
(5) ( become/becoming/became/becomes)
1. first/papermaking machine/invent/the late 1700s/Frenchman.
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2. students/have/go/the computer room/connect/computers/computer jacks.
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3. students/talk/topic/relate/our environment/now.
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4. he/intelligent/student/class.
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5. the bag/big/enough/carry/all the things
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Passive voice:
7. My father didn't buy any food last night.
-> Any food........
8.Vietnamese people decorate their houses at Tet.
-> Vietnamese's houses..............
9. Vietnamese women often wear Ao dai on special occasion.
-> Ao dai........
10. All of the students have finished the test.
-> The test...........
11. People have to use computers to sell things for many years.
-> Computers.......................