新视野大学英语第五册答案UNIT 1.doc

II. Answer the following questions. 1. What contrasts most between the situation in classrooms over the last century and the experience of today’s students outside the school walls? Relatively unchanging teaching styles versus children’s access to a range of media. 2. How will the computer reshape education in the future? Education will be organized largely around the computer. Computers will permit a degree of individual instruction. All students may receive a curriculum tailored to their needs, learning style, pace and record of success with earlier materials and lessons. 3. According to the text, why is computer technology both a blessing and a curse? It is a blessing because it makes delivery of information instantaneous; it is a curse on the other hand, because there are no reliable ways to distinguish sense from the distorted facts and downright nonsense common on the Net. 4. How is technology changing the nature of education? New technology enables education to be more individualized. Also, the pace of technological change means that the old vocational education model of preparing people for a single lifetime job is no longer adequate. 5. Why may the acquisition of a diploma from a certified institution become less important? Because individuals will be able to educate themselves and exhibit their competence in a simulated setting. 6. In addition to computer technology, what other innovations will have impacts on education? Medical technologies, biological technologies among others. 7. How will medical technologies influence education? They will permit study of students’ brain activity and blood flow as they engage in various kinds of problem-solving or creative activities. 8. Why does the author say that recent breakthroughs in biology and medicine may change education in the most radical ways? Because they may change our definitions of what it means to be a human being, and to be a part of human society. 9. What are the aut