阅读理解：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项．

　　What will the classroom look like in the years to come? Will teachers disappear, to be replaced by learning machines? Will children need to go to school at all, when technology can deliver the learning experience to their laptop (便携式电脑)?

　　The government is showing a keen interest in such issues. It's even given Southwark 7.5 million pounds to up-date Kingsdale School, where the brief includes plans to use space more creatively. And then there's the Classroom of the Future project. A dozen local education authorities(权威) in England are spending 10 million pounds obtained from Gordon Brown's cash to develop rooms that will, as the government hopes, “shape design of classrooms in the future.”

　　“We've been given a free hand, ” says Mark Dudek, an architect with the Education Design Group. He's been working with Yewlands School in Sheffield, a tough comprehensive school where the building will have to stand up to some sufficient(充足的) usage. “What we have in mind will allow different groups of children to work at their own pace in their own areas.”

　　It's a point made by mast of the schools involved in the project. The Devon Classroom of the Future will be built at Chulmleigh School, one of the most isolated(偏远的) schools in the country.

　　“In reality technology will disappear,” says Chulmleigh headteacher Barrie Cooper. “It will become old-fashioned. This is as much about environment and atmosphere as it is about blackboards. We want to create a space for learning. For me that's the vision of the furniture, space that can be used in different ways.” And he is against the vision of the laptop-delivered learning experience that makes the school obsolete(过时的).

1．From Paragraph 2, we can see the government's keen interest is________.

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A．creating new teaching methods

B．delivering the learning experience to laptop

C．designing new classrooms for the future

D．repairing old schools like Kingsdale School

2．What does Mark Dudek mean by saying “We've been given a free hand” in Paragraph 3?

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A．Their hands are not tied by ropes.

B．They can go everywhere they want.

C．They are given full freedom in designing.

D．They are offered enough money in designing.

3．What is the point made by most of the schools involved in the project?

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A．Making use of advanced technology to change traditional teaching methods.

B．Making use of advanced technology to replace traditional classrooms.

C．Giving the researchers a free hand to design new classrooms.

D．Designing new classrooms with multiple functions and suitable for different pupils.

4．As for the idea of all students learning by Internet only, we can infer Barrie Cooper may consider it ________.

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　　DC Hilton was one of the fist Amerircans to find out that there was money to be made in the middle of the night. 42 years ago he bought a small restaurant on US Highway 69, in Oklahoma. His main customers were truck drivers and 1 salesmen who drank coffee and ate cheeseburgers when they stopped to 2 their journey.

　　It was they who first tried to persuade Hilton to remain open all night. He thought about it for a while, and then suddenly made up his his mind. He took the door key and threw it across the road. He hasn't closed the door 3 .

　　Over the years his simple burger cafe has expended into a 24-hour roadside empire, with a 100-seat restaurant, a petrol station, a mini shopping market, a car park 4 mobile homes(活动住房) and all night self-help laundry(洗衣房) .

　　Hilton was a pioneer in a 24-hour 5 which has now caught on around the world. Today not only restaurants but also banks, supermarkets, mail-order firms, travel agencies and many other businesses are 6 to be open all night. 7 is this really a good thing?

　　A lot of research has been done in America on the effect of 24-hour working, and there is growing 8 about the long term dangers of a society that doesn't sleep. Americans are said to be sleeping 20% less than they did 100 years ago, and 55% claim to suffer at least occasionally from over-tiredness. 9 of the worst-made disasters hap pened in the last few hours before dawn. when even the mast experienced nightworker has difficulty 10 awake.

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