A Massive Open Online Course (大规模开放在线课程) — kn...

A Massive Open Online Course (大规模开放在线课程) — known as a MOOC — is a kind of online platform offering various lessons to the public, which brings opportunity and help to those who are eager to learn more. Many countries are active participants in developing online courses, and China is not an exception.

In the past few years, China has made great progress on online education and the country is in a leading position worldwide. The China Internet Network Information Center said that 144 million people had taken up online education up to June 2017.

According to the Ministry of Education, there are more than 10 MOOC platforms in China, providing 3,200 online courses — which make China the world’s largest online course provider. 490 of them are high quality and national-level courses, and another 3,000 will be added by 2020. High quality online courses have raised students’ enthusiasm for learning and given them more freedom to choose subjects.

However, the explosive increase in the number of lessons and users also brings problems in lesson quality and network security. In addition, online courses are not properly combined with on-campus courses. Therefore, the ministry intends to roll out a development plan for online education at Chinese colleges, along with regulations and standards.

The ministry will create policies encouraging professors to use MOOCs in their teaching, and set rules on how college students gain credits(学分) for taking such courses in an effort to promote the training of talented people in Chinese institutions of higher education and to bridge the country’s regional inequality in education. Besides, professors who use MOOCs in their teaching can enjoy the same sense of honor as those who innovate teaching in other ways. At the same time, strict supervision will be used to stop the spread of harmful information and users’ personal information will also be protected. China will do more to make its online courses go global and show the world the country’s achievements in this field.

1.What can we learn about MOOCs?

A.They are gaining more and more users and courses.

B.They are designed for college students.

C.Just a few countries are developing them.

D.They are just free for the poor students.

2.Why does the Ministry of Education make regulations?

A.Students have little freedom to choose courses.

B.Different problems arise in online courses.

C.Many professors don’t use online courses in their teaching.

D.Online courses are not practical for college students.

3.What does the underlined word “supervision” in the last paragraph probably mean?

A.Truth. B.Teaching.

C.Themes. D.Rules.

4.Where is this text most likely from?

A.A diary. B.A magazine.

C.A novel. D.A bulletin board.

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Since American students have been introduced into the era of the Massive Open Online Course, the opportunity for cheating appears greater than ever. The all-knowing Google search engine is within easy reach. So how can a teacher handle such a large number of examinees so far away, let alone searching out cheaters taking tests across the Internet?

Using technology, of course. While special services via webcam (摄像头) and cheating detecting software have been developed now, Mettl, an online company, has developed advanced techniques for netting cheaters, which the company claims are even more reliable and easier to use. Whatever small attempt to cheat, he or she will be found out.

Mettl has adopted a mass of technologies on its test-taking platform, creating a mini monitoring state in an exam. Here’s how it works: A test-taker signs on to Mettl and selects his／her exam from the site’s library of pre-loaded tests. Facial and keystroke recognition technology confirm the person that has signed in is the very person, and the system records both the test-taker (through the webcam) and the test-taker’s screen throughout the test.

Mettl’s technology uses the test-taker’s webcam to detect how many people are using the computer. Soon, it will track eye movement well enough to sense whether the test-taker is looking away from the screen, perhaps to consult a smart phone or a friend in secret. Mettl also monitors the test-taker’s screen and can detect when the test-taker has changed a computer or moved from the test. The system will soon be able to record sound, detecting whether the test-taker is talking or being talked to.

If any wrongdoings are detected, the system flags the incident and reports it back to the test’s administrator. This can bring any number of things, depending on the test-giver’s wishes: a complete shutdown of the exam, a warning message that appears on the test-taker’s screen, even human instructions from the control center.

Mettl is hoping its technology will help it break into the country’s big MOOC markets.

1.From the first paragraph we can infer that 　　　　　 .

A. MOOC has replaced the traditional form of education

B. Teachers should be stricter in dealing with cheating

C. Preventing online cheating is a harder job

D. Google is a software designed for cheating

2.How can Mettl help to get rid of cheating online?

A. By equipping teachers with cameras.

B. By asking test-takers to sign in.

C. By providing different tests at a time.

D. By recording the test-takers’ behaviors.

3.We can conclude from the passage that the technology of Mettl is　　 in the MOOC era.

A. unreliable　 B. promising

C. wasteful 　　 D. instructive

4.Which part of a newspaper does the article come from?

A. Health　　　　　 B. Entertainment

C. Education 　　 D. Culture

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MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are free, but without tutoring, and are open to anyone, anywhere in the world. The courses are flexible — normally three to five hours of study a week — done at any time, short (5 to 10 weeks) and video-rich. They are also heavily dependent on crowd sourcing: you can discuss a course with fellow students through online forums, discussion boards and peer review. Students don’t have to finish the courses, pass assessments or do assignments, but, if they do, they get a certification of participation.

The Open University launched FutureLearn, the UK’s answer to US platforms such as Coursera, EdX and Udacity, which have been offering MOOCs from top US universities for the past two years. The response has been incredible, with more than three million people registering worldwide. Meanwhile, in 2012, Edinburgh University became the first non-US institution to join Coursera’s partnership, comprising 13 universities. “We already run 50 online master’s degrees, so this was a logical expansion,” says Professor Jeff Haywood, Edinburgh’s vice-principal. “It’s an investment in teaching methods research. How am I going to teach introductory philosophy to 100,000 people? That’s what I call educational R&D.” He adds “If you look ahead 10 years, you’d expect all students graduating to have taken some online courses, so you’ve got to research that. Our MOOCs are no more in competition with our degrees than a lifelong learning course because they don’t carry credits.”

Cooperation is key, Haywood stresses. It is far better to offer 20-30 courses in your own areas of expertise (专门技能) and let other institutions do likewise. Professor Mike Sharples, FutureLearn’s academic lead, goes further: “We’ve tied the elements available before into a package of courses offered by leading universities worldwide on a new software platform, with a new way of promoting it and also a new social-learning teaching method. You won’t just receive an exam, but be able to discuss and mark each other’s assignments.”

Bath University, one of more than 20 universities working with FutureLearn, launches its first course, Inside Cancer, next January, and regards MOOCs as a way of breaking down age barriers. “There’s no reason why someone doing GCSEs should not look at our MOOCs and get quite a way through them, or someone at PhD level and beyond,” says Professor Bernie Morley, expert for learning and teaching.

1.MOOCs have these features EXCEPT that ________.

A. MOOCs have a platform for learners to share their learning experience

B. MOOCs provide teachers’ instructions if you have some difficulty

C. MOOCs can be adjusted according to people’s learning pace

D. MOOCs are free of charge for anyone

2.The response to FutureLearn has been thought to be unbelievable mainly because ________.

A. all the courses on the platform are available to anyone in the world

B. Edinburgh University became the first non-US institution to join it

C. students can get a certification of participation without passing assessments

D. the number of people registering in the platform is beyond expectation

3.What can be inferred from Professor Bernie Morley in the last paragraph?

A. People at PhD level have already known everything about MOOCs.

B. People with various learning levels will probably show interest in MOOCs.

C. Inside Cancer will be the most popular course for someone doing GCSEs.

D. MOOCs are not so competitive as lifelong learning courses due to the problems of credits.

4.The passage mainly deals with ________.

A. the appearance of a new learning platform

B. the various opinions on FutureLearn

C. the popularity of no-credit courses

D. the advantages of online teaching methods

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Massive Open Online Courses are also called MOOCs. Tens of thousands, or even more people can _____ these classes all at once. You can be anywhere in the world to take a MOOC. All you need is a ____ and a network connection.

MOOCs add to a tradition of what is known as _____ learning. For years, many colleges have offered classes that are taught ____ or mostly online. MOOCs are available in ____ like computer science or engineering. which work quite well. nut can in subjects like arts be as ____ as the old teaching approach?

Scott Anderson teaches philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Canada. He sees both good and ____ sides of MOOCs. “There are parts that will be fine, mostly -when students listen to a ____, there is no special reason why they need to be _____ present to hear and get it,” says Mt Anderson. Increasing numbers of students in MOOCs can mean ____ communication between students and ____. He says two ways to ____ this problem are by adding more teachers and ____ up online discussion groups.

Lisa Jadwin, who teaches English and writing at St. John Fisher College in New York, says that online education has some ____ for her subjects. What’s ____ in online education is face-to-face interaction. for example’ the teaching of English is a face-to-face ____ practice. So the old approach is not going to be ____ very quickly by computer aided instruction.

Bill Pogue teaches communications at the University of Houston downtown. He says that after leading classes for more than 30 years’ he would not ____ to teach a MOOC. However, Mr. Pogue sees good ____ in online education. He noted a strong sense of community in an online course he once took. He said the students could work ____ on the same project while living in different regions.

1.A. cut　　 B. give　　 C. accept　　 D. take

2.A. computer　　 B. television　　 C. telephone　　 D. radio

3.A. constant　　 B. distant　　 C. similar　　 D. creative

4.A. rarely　　 B. partly　　 C. merely　　 D. equally

5.A. subjects　　 B. areas　　 C. courses　　 D. schools

6.A. expensive　　 B. sensitive　　 C. effective　　 D. active

7.A. wrong　　 B. right　　 C. bad　　 D. positive

8.A. lecture　　 B. debate　　 C. chat　　 D. contest

9.A. physically　　 B. mentally　　 C. spiritually　　 D. commercially

10.A. better　　 B. less　　 C. more　　 D. fewer

11.A. students　　 B. teachers　　 C. friends　　 D. parents

12.A. go through　　 B. watch over　　 C. deal with　　 D. take In

13.A. getting　　 B. making　　 C. looking　　 D. setting

14.A. mistakes　　 B. strength　　 C. weakness　　 D. benefit

15.A. obtained　　 B. exposed　　 C. lost　　 D. preferred

16.A. careful　　 B. attentive　　 C. basic　　 D. interactive

17.A. turned　　 B. missed　　 C. taken　　 D. removed

18.A. avoid　　 B. attempt　　 C. escape　　 D. hate

19.A. idea　　 B. value　　 C. form　　 D. habit

20.A. together　　 B. outdoors　　 C. along　　 D. again

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Singles' Day ---- the Chinese opposite of Valentine’s Day has turned into a massive online shopping event. It is a day when single people are supposed to buy themselves presents. But there are sociological reasons behind China's “celebration” of single life. And the imbalance could have big consequences for the country.

There were 34 million more men than women in China in 2011. Part of that is natural – usually there are 105 boys born for every 100 girls. But the Chinese gender ratio　 (性别比例) at birth is much more obvious. It was 116 boys to 100 girls in 2012. The one child policy is largely to blame. Brought in to limit population expansion, the policy allows only one child per family. But because male children are seen as more valuable, as well as more likely to support their parents in old age, some parents choose to have a son over a daughter. The result is that large numbers of men will likely never get married. In fact, one study has predicted that by 2030, 1 in 5 Chinese men in their 30s will never have married, while another states that 94% of unmarried people in China are men.

Traditionally, China h as seen high levels of marriage, usually among the young. Besides, the increased education and career opportunities for women have meant that marriages are happening later. It is also traditional that women often marry men of a higher socioeconomic status than themselves. So women at the top and men at the bottom find themselves alone. One study has even suggested a link between an imbalanced gender ratio and growth in violent crime in the country.

Singles’ Day can’t solve all the problems China’s singles face. Indeed, it is possible that it is causing even more problems, as men resort to increasingly risky lines of work to increase their chances of gaining money and thus a wife. I am worried that as money starts to overcome romance, there is evidence that China ' s marriage market is increasingly materialistic.

1.In 2012, if 50 girls were born, how many boys were probably born?

A. 50.　　　　　　　　　 B. 52.　　　　　　　　 C. 58.　　　　　　　　 D. 60.

2.What made women in China get married late?

A. Their support of the government’s late marriage policy.

B. Their higher education level and more work chances.

C. That they expect to enjoy their single time when young.

D. That there are too many excellent young men to choose from.

3.What’s the writer’s attitude to the imbalance gender ratio in China?

A. Optimistic　　　　　 　 B. Concerned

C. Indifferent　　　　　 D.　 Unknown

4.We can learn from the passage that .

A. Singles' Day is celebrated all over the world.

B. by 2030, 1 in 5 Chinese women in their 30s will be out of marriage.

C. an imbalanced gender ratio is related to the growth in violent crime.

D. Singles' Day will solve all the problems China’s singles face.

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Over the past decades, forest area ______ in China as a result of massive deforestation.

A. had decreased B. decreased        C. is decreasing    D. has been decreasing

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With an online course Lynn has over 300, 000 students all over China ____ her class through the Internet.

A．attending          B．attended          C．attend            D．are attending

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1.When you take Reading in the Digital Age, you will ________.

A. walk into different people’s life B. learn ways of understanding texts

C. get better at computer skills D. share opinions with literary scholars

2.Who will help students better understand the themes of Shakespeare’s plays?

A. Actors. B. Scholars.

C. Historians. D. Video tutors.

3.What can people learn from The European Discovery of China?

A. China’s discovery of the West. B. The rise and fall of the Qing Dynasty.

C. The importance of the Silk Road. D. China’s interest in Western travellers.

4.What are the subjects of these online courses?

A. Science and history. B. Media and health.

C. Nature and environment. D. Language and culture.

5.In which way do the three courses have in common?

A. They are aimed at students. B. They are provided for free.

C. Each lasts 6 weeks. D. Each takes 2 hours per week.

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某英语报纸正举行“我的选修课程（elective course）体验”主题征文活动。请你根据以下提纲，用英语写一篇短文，准备投稿。

• An elective course you have attended this term and why you chose it

• One of the unforgettable experiences with this course

• What you have learned from this experience

注意：(1) 短文须包括上述内容，应适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

(2) 文中不得出现真实人名、校名等信息；

(3) 词数；100左右。开头部分已给出（不计词数）。

One of the elective courses I have attended this term is _______________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

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We have known for a long time that flowers of different plants open and close at different times of day. This is so 1  that there seems to be no need to ask the reason for it. Yet no one 2  understands why flowers open and close like this at particular times. The process is not as 3  as we might think, as recent experiments have shown. In one study, flowers were kept in constant 4 . We might expect that the flowers, without any information about the time of day, did not open as they 5  do. As a matter of fact, they 6  to open at their usual time. This suggests that they have some mysterious(神秘的) way of knowing the 7 . Their sense of time does not 8  information from the outside world; it is, so to speak, inside them, a kind of “inner clock”.

This 9  may not seem to be very important. However, it was later found that not just plants but also 10 , including man, have this “inner clock” which 11  the working of their bodies and influences their activities. Men, then, are also influenced by this mysterious 12 . Whether we wish it or not, it affects such things in our life as our need for sleep, our need for food.

In the past, this did not really 13  because people lived in natural condition. In the 14  world, things are different; now there are spacemen, airplane pilots and, in ordinary life, a lot of people who have to work at night. It would be very 15 , then, to know more about the “inner clock”. Such things as flowers might help us understand more about ourselves.

1.A. familiar       B. strange      C. similar          D. special

2.A. partly     B. personally       C. really           D. willingly

3.A. complex        B. simple           C. mature           D. meaningful

4.A. quietness      B. darkness     C. loneliness       D. sadness

5.A. finally        B. completely       C. physically       D. normally

6. A. refused       B. decided      C. continued        D. failed

7.A. time           B. secret           C. process      D. study

8.A. deal with      B. add to           C. give away        D. depend on

9.A. discovery  B. activity     C. invention        D. method

10.A. beasts        B. animals      C. strangers        D. humans

11.A. controls      B. studies          C. measures     D. destroys

12. A. world        B. flower           C. power            D. experiment

13.A. happen        B. exist            C. matter           D. work

14.A. ancient       B. modern       C. wonderful        D. peaceful

15.A. hard      B. expensive        C. convenient       D. important

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