The Internet bus
In the desert areas that surround Tucson city, USA, students spend hundreds of hours on yellow buses each year getting to and from their schools. But when mobile internet equipment was (21)____________ on a yellow school bus, the bored, often noisy, teens were transformed into quiet, studious individuals.
District officials got the idea during (22)____________ drives on school business to Phoenix, two hours each way, when they (23)____________ that, when they went in pairs, one person could drive and the other could work using a laptop and a wireless card. They (24)____________ if internet access on a school bus could (25)____________ students’ academic productivity, too.
But the idea for what students call ‘the internet bus’ really took shape when the district’s chief information officer (26)____________ across an article about having internet across in cars. He thought, “What if you could put that in a bus?”
The officials have been delighted to see the (27)____________ of homework getting done, morning and evening, as the internet bus (28)____________ up and drops off students along the 70-minute drive. (29)____________ some students spend their time playing games or visiting social networking sites, most students do make (30)____________ their travel time to study.
1. A. installed B. set C. included D. structured
2. A. extraordinary B. occasional C. exceptional D. few
3. A. believed B. acknowledged C. estimated D. realised
4. A. thought B. imagined C. suspected D. wondered
5. A. increase B. enlarge C. rise D. heighten
6. A. got B. looked C. came D. put
7. A. total B. amount C. number D. measure
8. A. brings B. picks C. rides D. catches
9. A. Since B. Despite C. Although D. However
10. A. progress B. work C. use D. part