Carmen Arace Middle School is situated in the pastoral town of Bloomfield, Conn., but four years ago it faced many of the same problems as inner-city schools in nearby Hartford: low scores on standardized tests and dropping enrollment（入學(xué)注冊(cè)）. Then the school’s hard-driving headmaster, Delores Bolton, persuaded her board to shake up the place by buying a laptop computer for each student and teacher to use, in school and at home. What’s more, the board provided wireless Internet access at school. Total cost: $2.5 million.
Now, an hour before classes start, every seat in the library is taken by students who cannot wait for getting online. Fifth-grade teacher Jen Friday talks about different kinds of birds as students view them at a colorful website. After school, students on buses pull laptops from backpacks to get started on homework. Since the computer arrived, enrollment is up 20%. Scores on state tests are up 35%.
Indeed, school systems in rural Maine and New York City also hope to follow Arace Middle School’s example. Governor Angus King had planned using $50 million to buy a laptop for all of Maine’s 17,000 seventh-graders – and for new seventh-graders each fall.
In the same spirit, the New York City board of education voted on April 12 to create a school Internet portal（入口）, which would make money by selling ads and licensing public school students. Profits（盈利）will also provide e-mail service for the city’s 1.1 million public school students. Profits will be used to buy laptops for each of the school system’s 87,000 fourth-graders. Within nine years, all students in grades 4 and higher will have their own computers.
Back in Bloomfield, in the meantime, most of the kinks have been worked out. Some students were using their computers to visit unauthorized（非法的）websites. But teachers have the ability to keep an eye on where students have been on the Web and to stop them. “That is the worst when they disable you,” says eighth-grade honors student Jamie Bassell. The habit is rubbing off on parents. “I taught my mom to use e-mail,” says another eighth-grader, Katherine Hypolite. “And now she’s taking computer classes. I’m so proud of her!”
【小題1】The example of Carmen Arace Middle School in the passage is used to ______.

A．show the problems schools are faced with today
B．prove that a school without high enrollment can do well
C．express the importance of computers in modern education
D．tell that laptops can help improve students’ school performance
【小題2】According to the writer, students in New York City’s public schools will ______.
A．enjoy e-mail service in the near future
B．make money by selling ads on websites
C．a(chǎn)ll have their own laptops within nine years
D．become more interested in their studies with laptops
【小題3】The underlined word “kinks” in the last paragraph most probably means ______.
A．plans B．projects C．problems D．products
【小題4】From the passage we learn that ______.
A．a(chǎn) school Internet portal is the key to a laptop program
B．the laptop program also has a good influence on parents
C．students slowly accept the fact their online activities controlled
D．the laptop program in public school is mainly for the eighth-graders


【小題1】D
【小題2】A
【小題3】C
【小題4】B

解析試題分析：短文大意：這篇短文主要講述了一些學(xué)校為了改善學(xué)生們的在校學(xué)習(xí)狀況，為老師和學(xué)生們配備了筆記本電腦，并取得了一些成效，因此一些其它學(xué)校也打算在學(xué)校中推出類似服務(wù)。
【小題1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文第一二段描述，可知作者舉卡門艾瑞斯中學(xué)的例子主要是為了說明筆記本電腦有助于改善學(xué)生們的在校表現(xiàn)。故選D。
【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文倒數(shù)第二段描述可知，在不久的將來，紐約公立學(xué)校的學(xué)生將會(huì)享受電子郵件服務(wù)。故選A。
【小題3】詞義猜測(cè)題。聯(lián)系后一句Some students were using their computers to visit unauthorized（非法的）websites.描述，可知已經(jīng)發(fā)現(xiàn)了大部分問題。故選C。
【小題4】推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段The habit is rubbing off on parents. “I taught my mom to use e-mail,” says another eighth-grader, Katherine Hypolite. “And now she’s taking computer classes. I’m so proud of her!”描述，可知這個(gè)筆記本電腦項(xiàng)目同樣對(duì)家長們有好的影響。故選B。
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