have joined forces to offer free online courses in an effort to attract millions of online learners worldwide.
Beginning this fall, a number of courses developed by teachers at both universities will be offered online
through a new $60 million program, known as edX. "Anyone with an Internet connection anywhere in the world can use our online courses," Harvard President Drew Faust said during a meeting to announce the
plan.
MIT has offered a program called OpenCourseWare for ten years that makes materials from more
than 2,000 classes free online. It has been used by more than 100 million people. In December, the
school announced it also would begin offering a special certificate, known as MITx, for people who
complete certain online courses. Harvard has long offered courses to a wider population through a
similar program.
The MITx will serve as the foundation for the new learning platform.
MIT President Susan Hockfield said more than 120,000 people signed up for the first MITx course.
She said Harvard and MIT hope other universities will join them in offering courses on the open-source
edX platform.
"Fasten your seatbelts," Hockfield said.
Other universities, including Stanford, Yale and Carnegie-Mellon, have been experimenting with
teaching to a global population online.
The Harvard-MIT program will be monitored by a not-for-profit (非盈利的) organization based in
Cambridge, to be owned equally by the two universities. Both MIT and Harvard have provided $30
million to start the program. They also plan to use the edX platform to research how students learn and
which teaching methods and tools are most successful.
B. a free computer program by MIT and Harvard
C. a Harvard-MIT platform of free online courses
D. a free program online for universities worldwide
B. About 2,000 online courses have been offered.
C. Over 100 million people have finished courses online.
D. Stanford and Yale together have courses similar to edX.
B. Get ready for this educational change
C. Get prepared to complete the online courses
D. Get prepared to make materials for the edX courses
B. It is another free MIT-Harvard online learning program.
C. It is a standard to recognize online learners" achievement.
D. It is a new kind of free online course of Harvard and MIT.
We all know that some things are obviously right. For example, it is right to be 1 to other people. It is also right to look after the environment. Some things are 2 wrong, too. For instance, we should not hurt or bully (欺负) others, nor
should we litter. Rules often tell us what is right or wrong.
Rules can help the public make the right 3 , and remain safe. Car divers have to obey traffic regulations that tell them
the right things to do on the road to avoid crashes. Cyclists who give signals before turning or stopping help prevent 4 .
If people follow rules without taking other matters into consideration, it will be 5 for them to form what is sometimes
called a "black and white" view. For example, they may believe that people should always tell the truth, and that lying is 6 acceptable. Such people always stick to their views, even if it means that they may get into 7 .
Sometimes it may not be so easy to know 8 what is right or wrong. Some people choose not to eat meat because they believe that it is 9 to eat animals, but other argue that they can eat meat and 10 be kind to animals; some insist that
stealing is always wrong, but others think that one does not need to feel so 11 when stealing some food to eat, if he lives in a really poor area and he is 12 .
Rules help us live together in harmony, because they show us the right way to 13 others. However, some people
argue that rules may be 14 , having observed that rules change all the time, and that some schools have some
regulations and others have different ones -- so who is to 15 what is right ?
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Sports account for a growing amount of income made on the sales of commercial time by television | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A. result in more sport event B. get more viewers to play sports C. make more people interested in television D. bring more money to the television networks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2. Why would weekend afternoons become dead time without sport programs? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
A. Because there would be few viewers B. Because the advertisers would be off work C. Because television programs would go slowly D. Because viewers would pay less for watching television | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A. holiday B. sports viewing C. television shopping D. expensive purchases | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A. their advertisers are carmakers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A. Television viewers are determined by male viewers B. Rich viewers contribute most to television companies C. Sports are gaining importance in advertising on television D. Commercial advertisers are the major sponsors of sport event | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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