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《湖北本科毕业生申请学士学位英语考试指南10》阅读练习1Directions:??? There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage: ?????? The Government has almost doubled its spending on computer education in schools. Mr. William Shelton, junior Education Minister, announced that the Microelectronics Education Programme (MEP) is to run for two more years with additional funding of at least ￡9 million. The programme began in 1980, was originally due to end next year, and had a budget of ￡9 million. This has been raised in bits and pieces over the past year to ￡11 million. The programme will now run until March 1986, at a provisional cost of around ￡20 million. MEP provides courses for teachers and develops computer programmes for classroom use of personal computers. It is run in partnership with a Department of Industry programme under which British-made personal computer are supplied to schools at half-price. In that way, virtually every secondary school has been provided with at least one computer at a central cost to the taxpayer of under ￡5 million. The primary schools are now being supplied in a ￡9 million programme which got under way at the turn of the year. But, as Mr. Shelton admitted yesterday: “It’s no good having the computers without the right computer programmes to put into them and a great deal more is still needed.” Hence, MEP’s new funds. Mr. Shelton said yesterday that MEP’s achievements in curriculum development and teacher training had shown that the computer could be used in all courses. About 15,000 secondary teachers have taken short courses in ‘computer awareness’——that is a necessary part of the half-price computer offer ——and training materials are now being provided for 50,00