[单项选择]The Touch-Screen Generation A. On a chilly day last spring, a few dozen developers of children’s apps (应用程序) for phones and tablets (平板电脑) gathered at an old beach resort in Monterey, California, to show off their games. The gathering was organized by Warren Buckleitner, a longtime reviewer of interactive children’s media. Buckleitner spent the breaks testing whether his own remote-control helicopter could reach the hall’s second story, while various children who had come with their parents looked up in awe (敬畏) and delight. But mostly they looked down, at the iPads and other tablets displayed around the hall like so many open boxes of candy. I walked around and talked with developers, and several quoted a famous saying of Maria Montessori’s, "The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence." B. What, really, would Maria Montessori have made of this scene The 30 or so children here were not down at the shore poking (戳) their fingers in the sand or running them along s

[单项选择]The Touch-Screen Generation A. On a chilly day last spring, a few dozen developers of children’s apps (应用程序) for phones and tablets (平板电脑) gathered at an old beach resort in Monterey, California, to show off their games. The gathering was organized by Warren Buckleitner, a longtime reviewer of interactive children’s media. Buckleitner spent the breaks testing whether his own remote-control helicopter could reach the hall’s second story, while various children who had come with their parents looked up in awe (敬畏) and delight. But mostly they looked down, at the iPads and other tablets displayed around the hall like so many open boxes of candy. I walked around and talked with developers, and several quoted a famous saying of Maria Montessori’s, "The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence." B. What, really, would Maria Montessori have made of this scene The 30 or so children here were not down at the shore poking (戳) their fingers in the sand or running them along s

[单项选择]Bring your coat with you. It （）get chilly later
A. should  
B. can’t  
C. may   
D. ought to

[单项选择]—_________.Mike. It’s a little chilly in here. —Okay. Is there anything else I can do for you before I leave
A. Take the book with you
B. Please close the window
C. Give me the remote Control
D. Turn off the light in the kitchen

[单项选择]The sixth generation computers with artificial intelligence ______ and perfected now.
A. developed
B. will have been developed
C. have developed
D. are being developed

[简答题]Events that the older generation remembers vividly are nothing more than past history.

[单项选择]World War II generation and their children challenged social injustice and inequality.
A. True
B. False

[填空题]Home robots of the first generation are available in ______.

[单项选择]The fifth generation computers, with artificial intelligence, ______ and perfected now.
A. developed
B. have developed
C. are being developed
D. will have been developed

[简答题]Educators think that the generation growing up with television spends so much of their time in front of the TV that they do not have enough time to study.

[单项选择]Generation gaps are nothing new. Imperfect communication between age groups plagued the ancient Greeks and current works alike.
Many an older worker chafes at an under-30 colleague who surfs the Internet, listens to his Sony Walkman and chats on the phone or with his desk mate, all while working on a project due in an hour.
Sometimes, of course, he isn’t corking, and that’s a whole different issue. But sometimes he is getting lots of great stuff done. In the meantime, the different work styles create a case of "Would you please shut up" vs. "Lighten up. Get a life"
Marc Prensky, vice president of Bankers Trust and founder of its interactive learning subsidiary, Corporate Gameware, was on point in Across the board, a publication of the conference board. The business research organization titled Prensky’s article "Twitch Speed," a reference to the fast pace of video game play.
Today under-30 workers likely grew up in a multimedia, technology-rich, twitch-speed enviro
A. they are smart and energetic
B. they have the special ability to perform several tasks at the same time.
C. brought up in a special cultural background, they have developed a behavioral pattern different from that of their older colleagues.
D. they have been trained to receive and process information in a special way.