Test 1
(2020·永州三模)Nowadays，nine in ten children are now at school.However，the figure is not as 1.____________(impress)as it sounds.Even if most of the world's children go to school，2.____________ awful lot of them learn pretty much nothing there.
According 3.____________ the recent World Bank study of seven African countries，half of nineyearold cannot read a simple word and three quarters cannot read a simple sentence.The reason is terrible 4.____________(teach)．Several recent studies suggest educational technology can help.It seems 5.____________(bring)about bigger improvement in poor countries than in rich ones.Some of the rare 6.____________(resource)being spent on teachers could therefore be better spent on educational technology.That doesn't mean dumping computers on schools，hoping that children 7.____________(understand)how to use them.Instead，it means providing schools with software that children can use with minimal help from an adult，that gets things right 8.____________(much)often than the teachers do，that adjusts itself to the child's ability，that sends teachers clues about 9.____________they are supposed to be teaching and that allows the authorities to check on whether the teacher is in the classroom.
Of course，good 10.____________(tradition)teachers are not replaced，and are never likely to be.
[语篇解读] 本文介绍了在教育落后地区使用教育技术设备的情况。
1．解析：考查词性转换。as...as短语充当is的表语，故应用形容词。
答案：impressive
2．解析：考查冠词。a lot of是固定短语，再根据awful的发音是以元音音素开头，可判断答案为an。
答案：an
3．解析：考查介词。according to...“根据……”，是固定短语。
答案：to
4．解析：考查非谓语动词。充当is的表语，表示事物的特征，应用动名词。句意：造成这个现象的原因在于糟糕的教学质量。
答案：teaching
5．解析：考查非谓语动词。seem to do为固定用法。
答案：to bring
6．解析：考查名词的单复数。根据语境应用名词复数。
答案：resources
7．解析：考查动词时态。与hope呼应，表示要发生的动作，需用一般将来时。
答案：will understand
8．解析：考查副词比较级。
答案：more
9．解析：考查连接词。充当about的宾语从句，并在从句中作teach的宾语，故用what。
答案：what
10．解析：考查词性转换。修饰名词应用形容词。
答案：traditional
