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Scholarly circles' attitude toward distance learning can best be described as______.

A. disapproving
B. cautious
C. sarcastic
D. indifferent

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Even without taking the technology to its limits, the idea of education as a lifelong process is catching on throughout the industrialized world. Already, working adults who pursue their studies part-time make up roughly half of students taking college courses in the United States.
However, there is debate in scholar circles about how far new technology should be used for teaching academic subjects in which personal contacts between teacher and student are still vital. Britain's Open University, for example, a world leader in distance education, has embraced information technology cautiously, believing it to be no substitute for books and the exchange of ideas at live tutorials and summer schools.
But the Open University is also moving with the tide. It has set up a "knowledge media institute" to explore ways of adopting information technology. Some teachers are concerned about this trend, arguing that the heavy investment that students are expected to make in computer and communications equipment contradicts the concept of "open" cost, of course, is and important factor in many developing countries, where few people have computers or even phones. Rather than uniting the world, the new technologies could lead to societies of information haves and have-nots.
Distance learning is different from the traditional correspondence course in that______.

A. it requires the individual student to work alone
B. it enables all the students to work at the same pace
C. it allows students to discuss with one another and their teachers
D. it enables geographically scattered students to study in the same physical classroom

We can infer the passage that______.

A. students accept new concept more easily than teachers
B. students are reluctant to invest in equipment for distance learning
C. distance learning is sure to take the place of traditional higher education
D. there is still lectured, on room for distance learning to develop

Supermarkets have been moving in the direction of self-service in order to______.

A. make more money
B. cut down the price of goods sold
C. compete with grocers
D. make possible a healthier, happier and richer life

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