Andy Steele lives just a few blocks from the campus of Black Hills State University in Spearfish,S. D. ，so coming to class isn't the problem. But he doesn't like lectures much,isn't a morning person,and wants time during the day to repair motorcycles.

  So Steele,a fulltime senior business major,has been taking as many classes as he can from the South Dakota state system's online offerings. He gets better grades and learns more,he says,and insists he isn't missing out on the college experience.

"I still know a lot of people from my first two years living on campus,and I still meet a lot of people," he says. But now,he sets his own schedule.

  At least 2. 3 million people took some kinds of online courses in 2004,according to a recent survey by The Sloan Consortium,an online education group,and twothirds of colleges offering " face-to-face" courses also offer online ones. But what were once two distinct types of classes are looking more and more alike and often dipping into the same pool of students.

  At some schools,online courses originally intended for nontraditional students living far from campus have proved surprisingly popular with oncampus students. A recent study by South Dakota's Board of Regents found 42 percent of the students enrolled in its distance education courses weren't so distant,they were located on campus at the university that was hosting the online courses.

  Numbers vary depending on the policies (政策) of particular colleges,but other schools also have students mixing and matching online and "face-to-face" credits. Motives range from lifestyle to offering a job schedule to getting into highdemand courses.

  Washington State had about 325 oncampus undergraduates taking one or more distance courses last year. As many as 9,000 students took both distance and inperson classes at Arizona State last year.

"Business is really about providing options to their customers,and that's really what we want to do," said Sheila Aaker,extended services coordinator at Black Hills State.

(   ) 5. What's the main idea of the passage?

   A. More and more students prefer to stay at home,chatting on line.

   B. Online course is becoming the only way of learning.

   C. More and more students prefer classes on line.

   D. What does the online course really look like?

(   ) 6. The online course in some universities were first arranged for those         .

   A. who lived on the campus

   B. who lived far away from schools

   C. who had no money to go to school

   D. who were very interested in the computer

(   ) 7. The underlined part "two distinct types of classes" (in paragraph 4) probably refers to "         ”，

   A. face-to-face courses and online courses

   B. rich students and poor students

   C. colleges and universities

   D. students living away and students living nearby

(   ) 8. According to the passage,which of the following do you think is NOT true?

   A. There are some university students in Washington State taking at least one distance course last year.

   B. A recent study shows about two fifths students enrolled in its distanceeducation courses live not so far from campus.

   C. Andy Steele,living quite away from his university,has to get up early every morning.

   D. Steele,who is a business major,has the online course from the state system.

5. C全文大意主要是介紹網(wǎng)上課程的流行，越來越多的學(xué)生無論住得近還是遠(yuǎn)都開始選擇網(wǎng)上課程。

6. B從第5段的介紹可知，一些學(xué)校最初是為那些住得離學(xué)校遠(yuǎn)的學(xué)生開設(shè)網(wǎng)上課程的。

7. A從上下文可以得知此處的two distinct types of classes主要指face-to-face courses and online course。

8. C第1段介紹了Andy Steele的情況，由isn't a morning person可以得知C項(xiàng)為錯誤選項(xiàng)。

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