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Getting ready to go back to school in the good old days of, say, 1998 meant a few trips to the mall and a quick check of the bus

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问题       Getting ready to go back to school in the good old days of, say, 1998 meant a few trips to the mall and a quick check of the bus route. This year, for many parents, there are some new things to remember: the teacher’s E-mail address, the school’s website and which night online homework help chat will be offered. "The next school year will be the one when the majority of parents really feel the Internet’s influence on their children’s education at the everyday level," says Jonathan Carson, chairman of the Family Education Co. , which offers a parenting website at www. familyeducation.com and a framework for local schools to create and maintain their own sites.
     This year promises to show a quantum leap in the spread of school technology: Parents in many districts can expect to be able to check the school lunch menu, read class notes, see activity calendars and view nightly homework assignments -- all online.  "The schools are wired," says Carson. "A majority of parents now have access and the educators are ready to go."
     Over the summer, parents of high school German students in Ithaca, N. Y. got to be part of a class trip to Europe, through their home computers. The class brought a digital camera and laptop with them to Germany and documented their visit on their web page. Harry Ash, father of 16-year- old traveler Brian, found it reassuring to see his son’s smiling face from half a world away. Before their kids left parents had checked the site for scheduling information, a list of activities and advice on cultural differences.
     When it’s designed well, a district, school or classroom website can change the relationship between the parent and the school, says Cynthia Lapier, Ithaca’s director of information and instructional technology. "The more you can involve parents in school, the better," Lapler says. "The technology gives us another way to reach them, especially parents of secondary school students, who tend to be less involved."
     Ithaca high school physics teacher Stever Wirt gets E-mail from parents regularly, some from the parents he believes might otherwise not pick up the phone with a concern.  Using software called Blackboard Courseinfo, Wirt conducts online chats with his students often reviewing for a quiz or discussing homework problems.
     The way things are going, by the end of this year, many parents may be fully converted --and in fact dependent upon their schools’ technological capabilities. At a recently wired school in Novi, Michigan, the school webmaster was just a few hours late posting the lunch-menu calendar on the website. In that time, more than a dozen parents called him by telephone to request the information. "A year ago, it never would have been there," says Carson. And now parents are finding it’s tough to get by without it.
Many parents now remember the teacher’s E-mail address and the school’s website because ______.
选项 A、by doing so they needn’t go to the store to buy stationery for their children
B、they can reach their children’s school and the teachers without traveling there
C、the E-mail and the website can help them find out what their children do
D、they can observe how the Internet affect their children’s education every day
答案C
解析 通过文章内容的叙述，可知家长可以通过网络检查学校的午餐菜单、阅读班级记录、浏览活动安排日历、查阅家庭作业的安排。第三段还谈到 Ithaca中学学生在德国进行参观考察，家长可以及时获得学生的信息，都说明网络可以帮助家长了解学生在学校各方面的情况，掌握相关的信息，并非观察网络对孩子的教育产生什么样的影响，故答案为C项。D项错误，A项曲解了文章第一句的含义。B项表示家长通过网络可以与孩子的学校和老师取得联系，但最终目的还是了解学生的在校情况，所以表述不确切。
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