This year, the Southern University's Super Dome, the giant indoor full-size football field, will be used for things other than tossing [ 1. (a) a, (b) an, (c) the, (d) / ] football around.It will be the dropping-off point for 6,000 Dell laptop [ 2. (a) computer, (b) computers, (c) computing, (d) computed ] destined to be handed out to virtually every full-time student attending classes in the fall at the campus. Southern U will be the first university in the world to[ 3. (a) requiring, (b) required, (c) require, (d) hope ] all students to have a computer.
Besides the classrooms and dormitory living quarters, the university [ 4. (a) install, (b) installing, (c) will be installed, (d) has installed ]connection ports in virtually every area of the campus, including the faculty offices, lounges, gym and swimming pools, library and even the cafeteria. At almost any [ 5. (a) location, (b) class, (c) room, (d) teacher ] on campus, students can plug their computer in and have access to the world through a high-speed [ 6. (a) connective, (b) connecting, (c) connections, (d) connection ] to the Internet.The students will also have direct connections to their lecturers as well as classroom assignments. Through the network, students will be able to [ 7. (a) stay, (b) leave, (c) learn, (d) register ] for classes and monitor their grades in all their classes. Steven Smith, president of SU, has been a big supporter of the computer program. He said the laptop computer program is [ 8. (a) designed, (b) defeated, (c) enabled, (d) described ] to allow all students to welcome technology as they move into the 21st century. With both the faculty and students having computers, he said it will encourage better communication and collaboration between the two groups.But the most important aspect is the merging of the haves and [ 9. (a) do nots, (b) have nots, (c) not haves, (d) don’t have ] on campus. This way everyone has the same educational tools, no matter what family income bracket they come from.y.