托福阅读：挑战TIME第13期-智课教育旗下智课教育.pdf

智 课 网 托 福 备 考 资 料 托福阅读：挑战TIME第13期-智课教育旗下智课教育 本文和大家分享的是托福阅读：挑战TIME第13期，想要测评阅读 水平的考生可以试试看文中提供的托福阅读训练材料，希望能给大家的 托福备考带来帮助。 托福阅读 复习了很久，却不知道自己的水平如何？快来看看智课教 育小编为您整理的挑战TIME系列，大家可以通过这一系列的托福阅读 训练，来了解自己目前的水平 ，快来挑战吧。 Should Schools Fingerprint Your Kids 【Introduction】 随着社会发展，人们越来越重视对隐私的保护。可以看到指纹扫描 运用到生活各个方面来保护我们的隐私，例如保险柜，笔记本电脑等等 。但是指纹扫描的运用都可以保护大家的隐私么？本文中校方所期待的 新技术就遭到家长们的反对。 【Vocabulary】 fingerprint n.指纹，手印 vt.采指纹 school district 学区 scanner 扫描器和扫描仪 scrap 废弃 ：因为无用而丢掉；抛弃 plan was scrapped注意用法 bar from v.不准 glean v.拾落穗 ，收集 Orwellian n.受严格统治而失去人性的社会 【Article】 The lunch lines werent moving fast enough for Linda Stoll, head of food programs at the Boulder Valley, Colo., school district. Because of that, kids had barely enough time to sit and eat before the lunch period was over. So, last year, Stoll began looking for ways to speed up the queue. She discovered that many students, especially kindergarteners, cant remember their six-digit ID number, which theyre required to type into keypads at the end of lunch lines. She then found out that there was technology that would allow a scanner to identify a kid qualified for lunch with the swipe of a finger, moving him or her quickly along. It would help kids who regularly forget their lunch money, and it would potentially remove some of the stigma faced by children who receive special tickets for free or reduced lunch. She proposed the idea, believing it would be the perfect solution. It turned out to be the perfect storm. Dozens of parents raised concerns about privacy. Many mentioned identity theft. Others expressed fear that immigrant children might be unfairly tracked by government. Eventually, Stolls plan was scrapped. Elementary and high school students in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and West Virginia use finger scans to pay for lunch — and even to check into class. But in many other states, the parental o