首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
In an ideal world, the nation’s elite schools would enroll the most qualified students. But that’s not how it (1)_____.Applicant
In an ideal world, the nation’s elite schools would enroll the most qualified students. But that’s not how it (1)_____.Applicant
admin
2010-11-27
51
问题
In an ideal world, the nation’s elite schools would enroll the most qualified students. But that’s not how it (1)_____.Applicants whose parents are alums get special treatment, as (2)_____ athletes and rich kids. Underrepresented minorities are also given (3)_____. Thirty years of affirmative action have changed the character of (4)_____ white universities; now about 13 percent of all undergraduates are black or Latino. (5)_____ a recent study by the Century Foundation found that at the nation’s 146 most (6)_____ schools, 74 percent of students came from upper middle-class and wealthy families, while only about 5 percent came from families with an annual income of (7)_____ $35,000 or less.
Many schools say diversity—racial, economic and geographic—is (8)_____ to maintaining intellectually (9)_____ campuses. But Richard Kahlenberg of the Century Foundation says that even though colleges (10)_____ they want poor kids, "they don’t try very hard to find them". (11)_____ rural students, many colleges don’t try at all. "Unfortunately, we go where we can (12)_____ a sizable number of potential applicants", says Tulane admissions chief Richard Whiteside, who (13)_____ aggressively and in person—from metropolitan areas. Kids in rural areas get a glossy (14)_____ in the mail.
Even when poor rural students have the (15)_____ for top colleges, their high schools often don’t know how to get them there. Admissions officers (16)_____ guidance counselors to direct them to promising prospects. In (17)_____ high schools, guidance counselors often have personal (18)_____ with both kids and admissions officers. In rural areas, a teacher, a counselor or (19)_____ an alumnus "can help put a rural student on our radar screen", says Wesleyan admissions dean Nancy Meislahn. But poor rural schools rarely have college (20)_____ with those connections; without them, admission "can be a crapshoot", says Carnegie Mellon’s Steidel.
选项
A、call on
B、rely on
C、try on
D、hold on
答案
B
解析
本题考查动词短语知识。根据句意"(大学)录取官员们依靠指导咨询人员帮他们找到有希望的候选人",可知答案为rely on"依靠"。call on"号召",try on"尝试",hold on"坚持"。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/5XZ4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Theword"curious"(Line1,Paragraph1)mostprobablyimpliesthat______WhatisthebestdescriptionoftheschoolsinSt.L
Hawaii’snativeminorityrefersto______.VariousnativeHawaiiansdemandallthefollowingEXCEPT______.
Hawaii’snativeminorityrefersto______.Whichofthefollowinggroupsholdsalessradicalattitudeonthematterofsovereig
Mostpeoplewouldbe(1)_____bythehighqualityofmedicine(2)_____tomostAmericans.Thereisalotofspecialization,agr
Duringrecentyearswehaveheardmuchabout"race":howthisracedoescertainthingsandthatracebelievescertainthingsand
Notmany25-year-oldscanreasonablyclaimtohavechangedtheworld.TheIBMpersonalcomputer,whichwaslaunchedin1981and
Thewildbehaviorofyoungpeopledepictedinthefirstparagraphisintendedto______.Accordingtotheauthor,theSaudiedu
WhytheauthormentionedNow,Voyager?What’stheauthor’spurposeofthesecondparagraph?
Whohaverecentlylistenedtothestoryinthefirstparagraphofthetext?Itcanbeinferredfromthethirdparagraphthat__
Withthedevelopmentoftheglobaleconomy,manycompaniesstatetheirbasicobjectiveofengaginginaworldwidemanufacturing
随机试题
血液正常运行,必须以……为最基本的前提条件:()
A.物理性因素 B.化学性因素 C.生物性因素 D.遗传性因素 E.免疫性因素21染色单体畸变可以引起先天愚型
企业有下列行为吊销注册证书:( )
在“仅靠内部融资的增长率”的条件下,正确的说法有()。
下列语句与其蕴含的刑罚理念对应正确的是()。
2016年6月8日,公安部召开了深入推进户口登记管理清理整顿工作第四次电视电话会议。会议指出,从()开始,全国大中城市和有条件的县(市)将启动居民身份证异地受理工作。
简论张居正改革。
Notonly______lenientwithus,butalso______forus.
Whataretheessentialdifferences______sellingandmarketing?
AmericansandTheirCarsA)Ithasbeenoneoftheworld’smostenduringandpassionateloveaffairs:Americansandtheircars.I
最新回复
(
0
)