试卷代号: 1053 中央广播电视大学 2 0 0 7 - 2 0 0 8学年度第一学期"开放本科"期末考试 英语专业商务英语(下) (2)试题 2008 年1 月 注意事项 一、将你的学号、姓名及分校(工作站)名称填写在答题纸的规定栏 内。考试结束后,把试卷和答题纸放在桌上。试卷和答题纸均不得带 出考场。 二、仔细阅读题目的说明,并按题目要求答题。答案一定要写在答 题纸指定的位置上,写在试卷上的答案无效。 三、用蓝、黑圆珠笔或钢笔答题,使用铅笔答题无效。 354 Part One Reading (20 points) Remember "e-learning"? In 2003 both the limits and potential of the for business education are ing clearer. Many people do indeed want to sit down at their computers and take courses at their leisure; but they also want to see their teachers in the flesh. The market for online-only programmes is shaky at best. The more prestigious schools have had a hard time making them work: their reputations are not on the whole enough to e qualms about distance learning. When U next , based in Deerfield , Illinois , founded the online-only Cardean University in 2000 , it recruited professors from the University of Chicago , Stanford University, and the London School of Economics (LSE) to develop course materials, but it has fewer than 500 students enrolled in its MBA programme. (By contrast , the University of Phoenix and Heriot-Watt University, each has more than 10 ,000 enrolled MBA students. ) Eduventures, a research and consulting firm that specialises in education, estimates that 350 ,000 students 一-only 2% of all students in college or a bove in the United States-are enrolled
