B acquire     G transmits       L preferred 

C indispensable  H access       M creativity 

D referred       I seeks         N post 

E connectivity   J complex       O transform

  There have been increased demands for higher education to provide students with better courses and more opportunities. To deal with this 1) ______ issue, colleges and universities are turning to the Internet for quick 2) ______ to its rich educational resources.

  Now the Internet has been accepted as the 3) ______ technology to many other methods in colleges and universities. Many teachers now routinely 4) ______ their teaching materials online. A growing number of schools offer at least some 5) ______ courses over the Internet.

  There are two different models of making use of the Internet for higher education. The first model 6) ______ to improve existing courses by using the Internet. This model provides high-speed Internet 7) ______ to all faculty, and staff. While this model uses the Internet, it doesn’t 8) ______ many changes, and it keeps most existing institutional structures unchanged.

  A different, more revolutionary model regards the Internet as 9) ______ to an important change in higher education, for it is believed that the Internet can 10) ______ teacher-centered instruction into student-centered learning. This, as a result, will bring about basic change to our university education.

A involve     F remarkable    K focusing 

B showered   G intense        L applying 

C pushed     H commitment    M tragedy 

D employing  I require         N tender 

E advocate  J hailed           O fulfillment 

In January 2011, Daniel Hernandez saved congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ life in a mass shooting in Tucson. He kept her alive by speaking 1) ______ pressure to her wounds and speaking 2) ______ words of sympathy until medical people arrived. He was 3) ______ as a hero by the public. Although his devotion to public service is 4) ______, in his book They Call Me a Hero: A Memoir of My Youth, Hernandez insists that he is not a hero.

Hernandez said that he initially resisted the idea of writing a book about his experience on that day of enormous 5) ______. It had been 6) ______ by a few publishers after the incident, he said. “I thought heroes should be people who make a lifetime 7) ______ to helping others.”

However, Hernandez, now a school board member, had come to realize that he would be interested in writing a book 8) ______ on his public service. “As a young official, I’ve faced some big challenges, and I want young people to know that they need to face challenges and 9) ______ themselves in their communities.”

When asked if he had any plan with a second book, Hernandez said his major purpose at present was to continue to serve his community and pursue his passion as a(n) 10) ______ for education. “But I’m not going to say no,” he said.