問題詳情
(二)Grace Wambui, a 14-year-old pupilin Nairobi, had never touched a tablet computer. But it took her onlyabout one minute to work out how to use one when such devices arrivedat Amaf School in Kawangware, a slum in the Kenyan capital. Teachingused to be conducted with a blackboard and a handful of tatteredtextbooks. Now children in groups of five take turns to swipe thetouch screen of the devices, which are loaded with a multimediaversion of Kenya’s syllabus. The tablets1 at AmafSchool are part of a pilot project run by eLimu, a technologystart-up. If it and other firms are right, tablets and other digitaldevices may soon be the rule in African schools. Many are betting ona boom in digital education in Kenya and elsewhere. Some executiveseven expect it to take off like M-Pesa, Kenya’s hugely successful mobile-money service. Such growth in digital educationwould be timely. The flood of new pupils has overwhelmed stateschools, which were already understaffed, underfunded and poorlymanaged. The prospect of Africa’s 300 million pupils learningdigitally has caught the attention of global technology giants.Amazon has seen sales of its Kindle e-readers in Africa increasetenfold in the past year. Intel has been helping African governmentsbuy entry-level computers. In Nigeria, Intel brought together apublisher and a telecom carrier to provide exam-preparation toolsover mobile phones, a service that has become hugely popular. A bigger question is whetherdigital tools actually improve education. Early results areencouraging. In Ghana, reading skills improved measurably among 350children that had been given Kindle e-readers. In Ethiopia, in theabsence of teachers, children figured out how to use tablets andlearned the English ABCs. At Amaf School, average marks in sciencewent from 58 to 73 in a single term.
【題組】63. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?
(A) Schools in Africa Are Going Digital
(B) Problems Plaguing Education in Africa
(C) The Bestseller in Africa
(D) Tablet Computers Are in Great Demand in Kenya
參考答案
答案：A
難度：困難0.291667
統計：A(7),B(5),C(6),D(4),E(0)