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山东省青岛市2020届高三上学期英语调研试卷
The UN's Millennium Development Goals included the ambition that by 2015 all the world's children would complete primary school. This has largely been achieved: nine out of ten children are now enrolled. Even though most of the world's children go to school, an awful lot of them learn pretty much nothing there. According to a recent World Bank study of seven sub-Saharan African countries, half of nine-year-olds cannot read a simple word and three-quarters cannot read a simple sentence.
Several recent studies suggest
education technology can help 
It seems to bring about bigger improvements in poor countries than in rich ones.
That doesn't mean buying computers for schools in the hope that children will understand how to use them, a stupidity on which plenty of money has been wasted. Instead, it means providing schools with software that children can use with minimal help from an adult. The software gets things right more often than the teachers do, adjusts itself to the child's ability, and sends teachers instructions about what they are supposed to be teaching.
Technology is no panacea(万灵药) . And authorities need to take teachers into account. But education technology can help greatly — by monitoring pupils and teachers alike, assisting the best teachers and, most important, making up for the failings of the worst.
A. The reason is terrible teaching.
B. The achievements are really great.
C. However, the figure is not as impressive as it sounds.
D. Technology plays more and more important role in teaching.
E. Good traditional teachers are not outdated, and are never likely to be.
F. Meanwhile it allows the authorities to check on whether the teacher is in the classroom.
G. Some of the scarce resources being spent on teachers could therefore be better spent on education technology.
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