北京市昌平区2023-2024学年八年级上学期英语期末复习专项训练

阅读与表达 (1) After school, it’s very difficult for Vishal Singh to make a choice. He knows he should really go on with his homework, but the Internet is so attractive that he can’t really pay much attention to his study. “Students have always faced distractions (分心) and time-wasters,” writes Matt Richtel in the New York Times. He says that computers are a real problem for students. They need to pay more attention to their learning. Students say that their parents are worried about the distractions and try to control their computer time. But it is still difficult to plan the time of using computers. Teachers at Woodside think technology makes students difficult to pay full attention in class, but they are divided over whether computer and the Internet can solve the problem. In Richtel’s article, English teacher Marcia Blondel feels disappointed with her students. She isn’t able to get them to read 30 pages of a book for homework. In order to solve this problem, she asks them to take part in a read-aloud of the book in class. But as some teachers express their worries over students’ digital (数码的) diets, seeing it as a way, they are trying to use technology in the classroom to draw the attention of these 21st-century students. The headmaster of Woodside High School, David Reilly asks teachers to build websites to communicate with students. The students can use computers, smart phones or other new technology to interact (互动) with their teachers. It’s convenient for them to search for some useful materials that they need before class. With the help of the new technology, the students have more chances to share their ideas with each other and spend less time on video games. So, they pay more attention to their study and they don’t show up with bleary-eyes (睡眼朦胧的) anymore. Mr. Reilly also spends a lot of money building up a multimedia (多媒体) centre and introduces new courses like the digital audio recording (数码录像) class. “We try our best to take back their attention and make