2024届高考英语阅读理解五步法专项带练(19) 讲义

1、 说明文（用时：7mins） ①Stepinac has become one of the first high schools in the country to drop all textbooks and replace them with a“digital library”. When students started classes on Monday，they would install an app on their tablets or laptops and get instant access to all 40 texts in the Stepina curriculum(课程). ②Dennis Lauro, director of an information center which provided technical support for public schools in New York, said neither he nor his colleagues were aware of a similar digital effort in a public school setting. “This is the wave of the future. Lauro said. “I，m not surprised that a private school would beat the public schools to it. They have the ability to just do it. There is so much politics involved in public schools，and when it comes to a move like that, they need approval from boards and committees. ” ③For Tom Collins, Stepinac^s president, the commitment to digital source material was not so difficult a decision. In the past, students? families had to spend up to $ 700 a year on textbooks. But now一after the onetime purchase of a tablet or laptop families only need to pay $ 150. Using the digital library is almost as easy as opening a new book. A student can instantly open a map of Egypt or a speech by former President John F. Kennedy in a digital book. A teacher can show a page from a digital book on a whiteboard at the front of the class or send students a link to a particular math problem with notes added in. ④The first few weeks may bring some challenges. Stepinac officials expect some parental discomfort over dropping concrete books. They recognize there may be technical faults at first. And they will have to encourage students to leave space-eating photos and music photos and music . 1.What is going on in Stepinac? A.It’s building a new library. B.It’s reforming its textbooks C.It's updating its digital resources. D.It’s changing its management pattern. 2.By saying the underlined sentence, Lauro believes A.private schools have their advantag