MEP provides courses for teachers and develops computer programmes for classroom use of personal computers. It is run in partnership with a Department of Industry programme under which British-made personal computer are supplied to schools at half-price.
10. Which of the following questions is NOT answered by the information in the passage?
In that way, virtually every secondary school has been provided with at least one computer at a central cost to the taxpayer of under £5 million. The primary schools are now being supplied in a £9 million programme which got under way at the turn of the year.
B) last four years and cost nine million pounds
About 15,000 secondary teachers have taken short courses in ‘computer awareness’——that is a necessary part of the half-price computer offer ——and training materials are now being provided for 50,000 primary teachers. The reasoning behind MEP is that no child now at school can hope for a worthwhile job in the future economy unless he or she understands how to deal with computers——not in a vocational training sense, but in learning the general skill to extract the required information of the moment from the ever-spreading flood.
Scientists estimate that about 35,000 other objects, too small to detect with radar but detectable with powerful Earth-based telescopes, are also circling the Earth at an altitude of 200 to 700 miles. This debris（碎片）poses little danger to us on the Earth, but since it is traveling at average relative speeds of six miles per second, it can severely damage expensive equipment in a collision. This threat was dramatized by a hole one-eighth of an inch in diameter created in a window of a United States space shuttle in 1983. The pit was determined to have been caused by a collision with a speck（微片）of paint traveling at a speed of about two to four miles per second. The window had to be replaced.
8. What effect did orbital debris have on one of the space shuttles?
As more and more nations put satellites into space, the risk of collision can only increase. Measures are already being taken to control the growth of orbital debris. The
B) arrange for cheap computers to be supplied to schools
A) part of the agreement to supply computers cheaply
B) to develop further computer programmes for schools
D) to provide courses for secondary teachers
D) in most schools, at no expense to the taxpayer
A) in future, all teaching will be done with computers
5. The reason for the introduction of computers in schools is that _____.
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:
B) Wastes D) Crew modules
2. The main aim of MEP is to help curriculum development and _____.
B) in all secondary schools
A) large C) radioactive
7. It can be inferred from the passage that debris was harmful to one of the space shuttles because the debris was _____.
A) How can small objects orbiting the Earth be seen?
C) in most primary schools, at half-price
C) last two years and cost eleven million pounds
B) moving very fast D) burning uncontrollably
D) train teachers to work with classes using computers
Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
C) Why is the risk of damage to space equipment likely to increase?
4. The additional grant of money being provided is mainly _____.
A) last two years and cost nine million pounds
D) It led to a collision with a space station.
The programme began in 1980, was originally due to end next year, and had a budget of £9 million. This has been raised in bits and pieces over the past year to £11 million. The programme will now run until March 1986, at a provisional cost of around £20 million.
D) last two years and cost eleven million pounds
B) What is being done to prevent orbital debris form increasing?
A) The Problem of Space Debris
A) Astronauts C) Tests
D) When did the United States Air Force begin making tests in space?
C) The Work of the European Space Agency
C) It caused a loss of altitude.
1. The original MEP programme was expected to _____.
But, as Mr. Shelton admitted yesterday: “It’s no good having the computers without the right computer programmes to put into them and a great deal more is still needed.” Hence, MEP’s new funds.
9. The word “them” in line 13 refers to which of the following?
A) provide personal computers for schools
C) show teachers how to use personal computers
B) The Space Shuttle of 1983
C) large numbers of people will have to be trained as computer programmers
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:
D) people will need to understand them to obtain information in their work
Mr. Shelton said yesterday that MEP’s achievements in curriculum development and teacher training had shown that the computer could be used in all courses.
6. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
3. Computers have now been introduced ______.
D) A Collision in Space
C) to train 50,000 primary teachers
A) in most secondary schools
The Government has almost doubled its spending on computer education in schools. Mr. William Shelton, junior Education Minister, announced that the Microelectronics Education Programme (MEP) is to run for two more years with additional funding of at least £9 million.
A) It removed some of the paint.
B) It damaged one of the windows.
B) computer programmers will have better jobs in future
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