C．headline D．direction

　　解析：选B。句意：我进退两难，不知道是否该告诉他。dilemma意为"困境"，符合句意。framework"框架"；headline"大标题"；direction"方向"。

　　9．(2012·湖北高考)Whether the buildings in this area should be pulled down has remained ________； people are still looking for other possible solutions.

　　A．unchallenged B．relevant

　　C．controversial D．contradictory

　　解析：选C。考查形容词辨析。句意：这些建筑是否要推倒仍然有争议，人们仍然在寻找其他可能的解决方法。C项意为"有争议的"，符合句意。A项意为"没有异议的，完全接受的"；B项意为"相关的"；D项意为"矛盾的"。

　　10．She was working as a teacher when I saw her several years ago, but I ________ any news about her ever since.

　　A．hadn't got B．haven't got

　　C．didn't get D．wouldn't get

　　解析：选B。考查时态。句意：几年前我见到她时，她正在当教师，但是自那之后，我就没有她的消息了。根据"ever since"的提示可知，此句应用现在完成时态。

　　Ⅳ.阅读理解

　　A

　　In an article published in the Slate magazine, Ray Fisman writes about "why giving poor kids laptops doesn't improve their scholastic performance". The title of the article is "The $100 Distraction Device"， a response to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, originally known as the $ 100 Laptop.

　　The article does ultimately reach a conclusion. Merely having computers doesn't necessarily improve academic performance. Far more important is how computers are used in people's lives. The article builds on Fisman's personal experience as well as new research by economists Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop­Eleches, who had access to results from the Euro 200 program that gave poor families computers in Romania.

　　Fisman also recounts the billions that the government spent helping to equip schools with computers. The result of this is that there has not been much improvement.

　　Fisman concludes that if children have computers on which they just play games, they will perform poorly in school. If they do academic work with them, of course they might have different results. Marc Prensky and others might take issue with Fisman, as they see tremendous educational value in some video games.

The bigger point is that merely giving computers to people or pushing them into classrooms