新视野大学英语第二版1 完形填空

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I, for one, am from ready to use online courses for mylearning. Don’t get me wrong. I am very happy about all the communication andlearning opportunities the courses have given us. But for me thoseopportunities should not be used to replace classroom activities. In otherwords, they are only tools to help me learn what has already been served in the classroom.

I love the classroom. I love classmates. There are fortystudents in my class right now, and I think it’s great. I even love havingclassmates who are better than me. And, let’s not forget the smell of ink onpaper , the sound of chalk on a blackboard, the hardness of a wooden bench orthe heat inside the classroom in early September. I love it all. But most of all,I love having a teacher—a “real live”teacher. I get excited when I am in theclassroom with a good teacher. I learn in a way that has been proven to work. Iam given insight not only into a certain subject, but also into the world.

What makes having a classroom teacher so .special? A goodteacher pushes me to succed. A good teacher rewards me with praise when Ihave done well and stays positive and gives me hope when I am down .Idon’t believe that a teacher using a virtual classroom can .reach

out tome in the same way. A teacher communicating.through the Internet cannot sharethe same type of relation a classroom teacher and student share.

I guess that I am lucky to have access to so many excellentclassroom teachers. I will never forget the kindness and commitment thatthose teachers have shown me. Their examples make it hard for me to accept away of learning that does not include them. You can call me “old-fashioned”,but as long as there is a classroom, that’s where I will be learning.

UNIT 2

I’m not sure whether a “generation”exists, butif it__,I hope I’m still standing on the youth’s of the gap.I may be 50and then some, but I still like to rock.When I was__,I listened to all ofthe new rock and roll music,and I really got into it.But ,unlike a lot of myfriends__ decided that good music died after the 1970s,I__on listening to aswell as rocking to new and unique music.I have to__that rock and roll haschanged since I

was a teenager,but it is__about using rhythm to expressfelling.

Some of the changes have been very positive.__intechnology have made personal recording simple and given us access____music onthe Internet.____,you can’t throw a stone without hitting someone that has madetheir own CD.You don’t have to just listen to music made and sold by big recordcompanies.Many groups send their music__to community radio station.This __trulynew music to be heard that record companies have never even touched.I play drumfor one__group myself.

My daughter is an__teenager and she is thoroughlydisgusted by my listening to and playing,as she puts it, “thodse__tunes.”Classical music and playing the piano__to her.She pretends to show concern bymaking comments like, “You should turn that stuff down or you will hurt yourears,”but I know what she is really__to say is that she finds my musicabsolutely offensive and does not have __for it.I don’t get too upset, though.And I don’t worry about my music having a(n)__influence on her.__,she isprobably right about my ears;I likely have lost some hearing from going to toomany loud concerts as I have. I can’t say that it wasn’t worth it,__.If I hadto do it all over again I would do it all the same except I would protect myears better.