Computers are now being pushed into schools. We know that multimedia will make 【21】______e

Computers are now being pushed into schools. We know that multimedia will make 【21】______ easy and fun. Children will happily learn from 【22】______ characters while taught by expertly 【23】______ software. Who needs teachers when you've got 【24】______ education？ These expensive toys are difficult to use in the classrooms and 【25】______ extensive teacher training. Sure, kids love video games-- 【26】______ think of your own experience: can you 【27】______ even one educational filmstrip of many years ago？ I'll 【28】______ you remember the two or three great teachers who made a 【29】______ in your life.

Then there's cyberbusiness. We're promised 【30】______ catalog shopping--just point and click for great deals. We'll order airline tickets 【31】______ the network, book restaurants and negotiate sales 【32】______ . Stores will become obsolete. So how come my local mail does more 【33】______ in an afternoon than the entire Internet 【34】______ in a month？ Even if there were a trustworthy way to 【35】______ money over the Internet, the network is 【36】______ a most essential ingredient of trade and commerce: salespeople.

What's absent from this electronic wonderland？ People contact. Computers and networks 【37】______ us from one another. A network chat line is a limp 【38】______ for meeting friends over coffee. No interactive multimedia display

【39】______ to the excitement of a 【40】______ concert. This virtual reality where frustration is legion and where--in the holy names of Education and Progress--important aspects of human interactions are relentlessly devalued.

【21】

A．schoolwork

B．exercise

C．teamwork

D．research