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Remember books? They were those pieces of paper with words printed on them【C1】______in between two, sometimes,【C2】______covers. People bought them, and people borrowed them, but,【C3】______people used to read them. And then came screens. Six years into the【C4】______rise of mobile, half of American adults own a smartphone; over a third owns a tablet. Now, Im joking about the end of books, but its easy and tempting to【C5】______that screens will continue their【C6】______on words and paper-bound books will be at the【C7】______of vanishing. But if you take a hard look at the data, its not the end of print. Not by a long shot. 【C8】______years, there hasnt been a more【C9】______technology for capturing the hopes and the fears of new parents than the tablet. Touchscreens are so easy to【C10】______that babies can use them and learn at younger ages than we thought possible—or babies can use them and use them and use them and lose out on other skills. We just dont know what this does【C11】______young brains. All we know is were【C12】______a generation that sometimes finds magazines more【C13】______than iPads. Parents, of course, cant not know. Or, if they really cant, then they dont want to take any【C14】______. And thats why its not at all【C15】______that the vast, vast【C16】______of parents prefer reading printed books to their young children. Pew Research found that 94 percent of parents think its important to read print books to their children. Print【C17】______isnt going away soon.【C18】______more people prefer e-readers, some would still rather read print. Books will become 'luxuries'. But, of course, the real test will come in the next few years when we see what kids who have been using tablets since before they could walk prefer to read. Print is in a long, slow【C19】______that feels like a death spiral, but isnt quite so. For now, at least, the end of print is a long way off, even if kids these days cant【C20】______how to turn the page.
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A.sealed
B.contained
C.packed
D.installed

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A.sealed
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此处需填过去分词作piecesofpaper的后置定语。从后面的betweentwo...covers(在两张……封面之间)可以看出,这里解释什么是书。主语They指代第一句的books。通常书是包在封面内,C项packed意为“被包装”,语义符合。
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未分类题Just seven years ago, the Texas Legislature prescribed that all high schoolers must pass two math courses and geometry to graduate. This summer, the state reversed course, easing its【C1】______math, science, and social-studies requirements to【C2】______class time for job training. Texas legislators want to create a more【C3】______system that helps students who arent headed to four-year colleges enter the workforce. But that【C4】______carries some risks.【C5】______its true that not all students will go on to college, pulling back on college preparatory coursework has to be【C6】______carefully in a state like Texas, with its hundreds of thousands of low-income and【C7】______students. Theyre the students who would benefit from college the most. New laws in Texas, as well as in Florida, de-emphasize the math class required for【C8】______to four-year colleges. Knowledge of these subjects is considered an indicator of college readiness【C9】______the Common Core standards, which have been【C10】______by 45 states, including Florida. More than half of public-school students in both states are nonwhite and from low-income families. Its particularly【C11】______that these Hispanic and African-American students leave high school qualified to further their e-ducation—【C12】______they dont plan on doing so right away. A college【C13】______is the most important driver of social mobility. By 2020, 65 percent of all jobs will require some kind of postsecondary education according to surveys. 【C14】______speaking, Texass earlier college-prep course-work recommendations didnt fit reality.【C15】______the high bar, only about half of the states high school graduates immediately headed off to college of any kind. 'We wanted to give students and parents more flexibility, to not only be college-prepared—which I think were doing a pretty good job of—but perhaps to【C16】______that preparation to folks who may not be going to college,' Representative Jimmie Don Aycock, who【C17】______the Texas Houses Public Education Committee, says of the revision. The goal isnt to dumb down the curriculum, he says, but to let kids【C18】______a path that might not have been【C19】______to them before. The states educational system still rewards schools when students【C20】______college readiness.【C1】A.specialB.vitalC.strictD.absurd