2013届高考英语二轮复习考点讲义：阅读理解-网络的发展与问题.docVIP

阅读理解 网络的发展与问题 1．网络发展的利与弊的话题。 2．青少年上网要注意的事项和带来的教育问题。 3．网络隐私与安全问题。 4. 网络发展给社会带来的变革话题，例如知识产权保护等话题。 5. 网络技术可以带来经济利益的话题。 6. 网上购物、网上银行等现代网络的产物话题。 ·链接高考In a recent announcement, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said that they have joined forces to offer free online courses in an effort to attract millions of online learners worldwide. Beginning this fall, a number of courses developed by teachers at both universities will be offered online through a new S 60 million program, known as edX. Anyone with an Internet connection anywhere in the world can use our online courses, Harvard President Drew Faust said during a meeting to announce the plan. MIT has offered a program called OpenCourseWare for ten years that makes materials from more than 2,000 classes free online. It has been used by more than 100 million people. In December, the school announced it also would begin offering a special certificate, known as MITx. for people who complete certain online courses. Harvard has long offered courses to a wider population through a similar program. The MITx will serve as the foundation for the new learning platform. MIT President Susan Hockfield said more than 120,000 people signed up for the first MITx course. She said Harvard and MIT hope other universities will join them in offering courses on the open-source edX platform.Fasten your seatbelts, Hockfield said. Other universities, including Stanford. Yale and Camegic-Mellon, have been experimenting with teaching to a global population online. The Harvard-MIT program will be monitored by a not-for-profit (fS^JA) organization based in Cambridge, to be owned equally by the two universities. Both MIT and Harvard have provided S30 million to start the program. They also plan lo use the cdX plalfonn to research how students learn and which teaching methods and tools are most successful. 53. According to this text, edX is . A. a part of the free MIT OpenCourseWare B. a free computer program by MIT and H