Ⅲ.综合运用

New Technologies Benefit Students

At a family dinner,my mother was trying to remember an actor's name.I took out my smartphone,s__1___for the movie she was talking about and found the answer:Benedict Cumberbatch.

This series of events seemed completely natural to me.My mom,however,felt s__2__.“How could you know that?”she asked.

Later,it got me thinking.Today,we are using modern technologies in so many different aspects of our lives.And I think we students have b__3__greatly from new technologies.

Studying used to be sitting in libraries with lots of books.Now,apart from school libraries,we have many o__4___libraries.A simple search for your chosen study topic can produce huge numbers of resources.

Another area that has benefited from modern technologies is student-teacher communication.We still have the a__5__of our teachers while we are in the classroom.However,we now have emails and social media.We can also communicate with our teachers at home or while we are on the bus.

In lecture halls，laptops（笔记本电脑）are already very c__6___.Students today can have up-to-date learning materials.

And it's not just in education that students are benefiting from the latest technologies.These days，we have smartphone apps to sell old textbooks，to find bargains（便宜货）and to use car sharing.The list could go on and on.

Technologies are changing fast.Who knows what is coming next？We should be ready to take a__7__of each innovation（新方法）as it occurs.

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