While carrying your schoolbag on the way to school or home,does the heavy weight of your books make you less interested to learn knowledge?Don't worry.E-readers may help you say goodbye to your heavy schoolbag.
An e-reader has the memory space to hold hundreds of books.So people want to replace heavy schoolbags with small,light e-readers.For example,Cushing Academy,a high school in Massachusetts,US,got rid of most of the 20,000 books in its library last summer.The head of the library said that the school was going to replace printed books with e-books.Teachers and students will use e-readers instead.
Most e-readers are thin and weigh less than 500 g.They can download an e-book in 60 seconds. "It's so convenient.You can have so many books right at your fingertips!" said Meghan Chenausky,16.
Chinese schoolchildren are also trying e-readers.At the 2010 Shanghai Expo,an e-schoolbag was on show.It is a special e-reader that students can use to download textbooks from the school servers.It can also send and receive homework.
Some schools in Beijing and Shanghai have tried this e-schoolbag for a few years. "It' s excellent.I don't have to carry a heavy schoolbag anymore," said Xiao Qi,15,Beijing. "And it's eco-friendly because it saves paper."
New generation e-readers have many functions(功能) besides reading,such as Wi-Fi and multimedia.However,some parents worry that these functions may have a bad influence on their children's study habits. "I think Wi-Fi is not necessary for kids," says Zeng Wenwen,43,Beijing.
(1)Teachers and students in Cushing Academy used e-readers last summer,didn't they?(此題一分)
No,they didn't.
No,they didn't.
(2)What may help you say goodbye to your heavy schoolbag? E-readers.
E-readers.
(3)What are most e-readers like? They are thin and weigh less than 500 g.
They are thin and weigh less than 500 g.
(4)What can the students use the special e-reader to do? They can use it to download textbooks from the school servers and send and receive homework.
They can use it to download textbooks from the school servers and send and receive homework.
(5)Why does the student Xiao Qi think the e-schoolbag is excellent? He doesn't have to carry a heavy schoolbag anymore and it's eco-friendly it saves paper.
He doesn't have to carry a heavy schoolbag anymore and it's eco-friendly it saves paper.
(6)What does the writer mainly want to tell us?What do you think of e-readers? What e-readers are like and what functions they have./ What e-readers are like and how they are used now and some worries about them.
What e-readers are like and what functions they have./ What e-readers are like and how they are used now and some worries about them.