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A recent study concluding that the first two years of undergraduate education makes very little difference in students’ abilitie

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问题     A recent study concluding that the first two years of undergraduate education makes very little difference in students’ abilities to read critically and write clearly points to a troubling fact in higher education. We are not doing an adequate job of preparing students for life and work in the 21st century. There are many reasons for students’ difficulties. Far too many come to college today less well prepared than in the past and are not able to work at the level that should be required of them. It is essential to develop an approach to reform that integrates K-12 and college education.
    The challenges students face are compounded by pressures faculty members face. The imbalance between research and teaching has led to curricula that are over-specialized. Many of the courses offered are of little interest or use to students. When a person’s professional future depends on research and publication, there is very little incentive to spend time teaching and working with students.
    But even well intentioned teachers who would like to do more for their students often face insurmountable difficulties. Growing financial problems make it virtually impossible to provide the kind of education students deserve. While faculty members and graduate students are being cut, many schools are trying to increase income by admitting more students, leaving insufficient professional teacher for the students recruited.
    When there is pressure to teach large classes to help the bottom line, the wisest policy is to assign little reading or writing and to grade easily. Teaching well takes lots of time and helping student to learn to read critically and write well cannot be done in lecture halls with hundreds of students.
    The situation is even worse than recent reports suggest. Students are going to need new skills and different literacy in the future. The technological revolution that continues to take place is transforming the very structure of knowledge and, by extension, is changing the way people think, read and write. Traditional skills and competence in reading and writing are still necessary but are no longer sufficient. We must also teach students to be as critical and creative in new media as they should be in the old.
    None of this will be easy or cheap but it must be done now. There has to be a thorough reassessment of the value of teaching and significant reallocation of resources within colleges and universities as well as the country at large.
Which of the following is true about the students and teachers nowadays?
选项 A、Students are suffering from more reading and writing assignments after school.
B、Teachers have been reallocated for better teaching of students.
C、Students are now taking a variety of courses for interest.
D、Teachers have been asked to do more academic studies and papers.
答案D
解析 事实细节题。由题干关键词students and teachers定位至文章中间段落。第二段最后一句提到老师现在的职业前景是由科研和出版物的多少来决定。可见，他们被要求做更多的学术研究和论文，故[D]符合文意。第四段第一句提到老师面对大班学生时，会给学生少留一些阅读和写作任务，故[A]与文意不符；第三段第三句提到学校教师被裁，没有足够的老师来教授学生，而且最后一段作者倡议要重新配置教学资源，可见，目前老师仍未得到重新配置，故[B]与文意不符；第二段第三句提到学校安排的很多课程对学生来说没有吸引力和用途，故[C]与文意不符。
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