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第一节 阅读短文,在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
[2026 南通期末]At St. John's Church of England School in Wigan, Year 8 students were busy 1.
with
a science class yesterday. When the science teacher was explaining the 2.
importance
(important) of vitamins for body protection, some students were listening carefully and taking notes, while others were inventing a simple AI quiz game about how our bodies work at that time. Each student used a tablet, following some easy lessons made by AI.
This school is one of the first to guide the use of AI in the classroom. The system analyzes (分析) each 3.
child's
(child) work and points out where they need to improve. With detailed reports from the AI, teachers can adjust(调整) their teaching methods 4.
to develop
(develop) a better learning plan for every student in time. Parents can check these plans and progress reports through the online system. In this way, both teachers 5.
and
parents could easily see how every student is doing in each subject.
For students, they can express their feelings about the lessons with an emoji button(表情按钮). If a boy clicked a frustrated(沮丧) emoji, the AI could find the lesson impossible for him to follow, so it immediately adjusted the lesson, avoiding speaking too fast and going over the content slowly before 6.
moving
(move) on.
With the new system, they can also learn by 7.
themselves
(they) anytime, anywhere instead of waiting for the teacher. Holly Graham, a Grade 8 student, said, "I used to give up when I met hard math problems, but now I can try to work them out. Since we began using it, my math has improved a lot and 8.
the
best thing is that it pushes us to learn further and faster."
While you might think the children are glued to their screens all day, Laura James, the principal, explained that this was not true. The children still write in workbooks as 9.
carefully
(care) as before, and the school library is still full of printed books. "It sounds fantastic," she says. "And for teachers, AI means 10.
less tiring
(tire) marking work and shorter lesson preparation time—and more time to help the children with their weak subjects."