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Last week, Education Secretary Arne Duncan declared a war on paper textbooks. “Over the next few years,” he said in a speech at the National Press Club, “textbooks should be abandoned.” In their place would come a variety of digital-learning technologies, like e-readers and multi-media websites.
Such technologies certainly have their place. But Secretary Duncan is threatening to light a fire to a tried-and-true technology—good old paper—that has been the foundation for one of the great educational systems on the planet. And while e-readers and multi-media may seem appealing, the idea of replacing an effective leaning platform with a widely hyped (炒作)but still unproven one is extremely dangerous.
An expert on reading, Maryanne Wolf, has recently begun studying the effects of digital reading on learning, and so far the results are mixed. She worries that Internet reading, in particular, could be such a source of distractions(分散注意力) for the student that they may cancel out most other potential benefits of a web-linked, e-learning environment. and while it’s true that the high-tech industry has sponsored substantial amounts of research on the potential benefits of Web-based learning, not enough time has passed for longitudinal(纵向的) studies to demonstrate the full effects.
In addition, digital-reading advocates claim that lightweight e-books benefit students’ backs and save schools money. but the rolling backpack seems to have solved the weight problem, and the astounding costs to outfit every student with an e-reader, provide technical support and pay for regular software updates promise to make the e-textbook a very pricey choice.
As both a teacher who uses paper textbooks and a student of urban history, i can’t help but wonder what parallels exist between my own field and this sudden, wholesale abandonment of the technology of paper.
32. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A. A tried and true technology is paper, long used in educational system.
B. Digital learning technologies will replace the paper textbooks sooner or later.
C. E-readers and multimedia websites are learning methods that are proved effective.
D. Multi-media websites and a good old paper are kinds of digital-learning technologies.
33. What are drawbacks of textbooks according to the passage?
A. Its price. B. Its weight. C. Its content. D. Its appearance.
34. What worries Maryanne Wolf is that .
A. paper learning can provide more potential benefits
B. the results of digital reading effects are understandable
C. students may not focus on learning by digital reading
D. digital reading can’t provide potential benefits for users
35. What is the author’s attitude towards digital-learning?
A. disapproving B. supportive C. positive D. objective
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