2015年12月英語六級閱讀預(yù)測：選詞填空（一）

　　六級選詞填空

　　When campus president Wallace Loh walked into Juan Uriagereka's office last August, he got right to the point. "We need courses for this thing — yesterday!"

　　Uriagereka, associate provost for faculty affairs at the University of Maryland in College Park, knew ___1____ what his boss meant. Campus administrators around the world had been buzzing for months about massive open online courses, or MOOCs: Internet-based teaching programs ___2____ to handle thousands of students ___3____, in part using the tactics of social-networking websites. To ___4____ video lectures, much of the learning comes from online comments, questions and ___5____. Participants even mark one another's tests.

　　MOOCs had exploded into the ___6____ consciousness in summer 2011, when a free artificial-intelligence course offered by Stanford University in California attracted 160,000 students from around the world — 23,000 of whom finished it. Now, Coursera in Mountain View, California — one of the three researcher-led start-up companies actively developing MOOCs — was inviting the University of Maryland to ___7____ up to five courses for broadcast on its software platform. Loh wanted in. "He was very clear," says Uriagereka. "We needed to be a part of this."

　　Similar conversations have been taking place at ___8____ universities around the world, as dozens — 74, at the last count — rush to sign up. Science, engineering and technology courses have been in the vanguard (前沿) of the movement, but offerings in management, ___9____ and the arts are growing in popularity (see 'MOOCs rising'). "In 25 years of ___10____ higher education, I've never seen anything move this fast," says Mitchell Stevens, a sociologist at Stanford and one of the leaders of an ongoing, campus-wide discussion series known as Education's Digital Future.

　　[A] academic

　　[B] contended

　　[C] designed

　　[D] discussions

　　[E] exactly

　　[F] eventually

　　[G] humanities

　　[H] major

　　[I] observing

　　[J] original

　　[K] recognition

　　[L] simultaneously

　　[M] submit

　　[N] supplement

　　[O] undermines

　　答案

　　Keys:

　　1. 【E】exactly

　　2.【C】designed

　　3.【L】 simultaneously

　　4.【N】supplement

　　5.【D】discussions

　　6.【A】academic

　　7.【M】submit

　　8.【H】major

　　9.【G】humanities

　　10.【I】observing