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
Barack Obama invited a puzzling group of people into the White House on December 5th: university presidents. Whatever they might
Barack Obama invited a puzzling group of people into the White House on December 5th: university presidents. Whatever they might
admin
2014-10-24
39
问题
Barack Obama invited a puzzling group of people into the White House on December 5th: university presidents. Whatever they might be, they are at the heart of a political firestorm. Anger about the cost of college extends from the parents to Occupiers. Mr. Obama is trying to urge universities to address costs with " much greater urgency".
This sense of urgency is justified: ex-students have debts approaching $ 1 trillion. But calm reflection is needed too. America’s universities suffer from many maladies besides cost. And rising costs are often symptoms of much deeper problems: problems that were irritating during the years of affluence but which are fatal in an age of austerity.
The first problem is the inability to say "no". For decades American universities have been offering more of everything—more courses for undergraduates, more research students for professors and more athletics for everybody—on the merry assumption that there would always be more money to pay for it all. The second is Ivy League Envy. The vast majority of American universities are obsessed by rising up the academic hierarchy, becoming a bit less like Yokel-U and a bit more like Yale.
Ivy League Envy leads to an obsession with research. This can be a problem even in the best universities; students feel short-changed by professors fixated on crawling along the frontiers of knowledge with a magnifying glass. At lower-level universities it causes dysfunction. American professors of literature crank out 70,000 scholarly publications a year, compared with 13,757 in 1959. Most of these simply molder: Mark Bauerlein of Emory University points out that, of the 16 research papers produced in 2004 by the University of Vermont’s literature department, a fairly representative institution, 11 have since received between zero and two citations. The time wasted writing articles that will never be read cannot be spent teaching.
Popular anger about universities’ costs is rising just as technology is shaking colleges to their foundations. The internet is changing the rules. Star academics can lecture to millions online rather than the chosen few in person. And for-profit companies such as the University of Phoenix are stripping out costs by concentrating on a handful of useful courses as well as making full use of the internet. The Sloan Foundation reports that online enrolments grew by 10% in 2010, against 2% for the sector as a whole.
Nearly 100 years ago American universities faced similar worries about rising costs and detachment from the rest of society. Lawrence Lowell, the president of Harvard, argued that " Institutions are rarely murdered; they meet their end by suicide. .. They die because they have outlived their usefulness, or fail to do the work that the world wants done. " America’s universities quickly began " the work that the world wants done" and started a century of American dominance of higher education. They need to repeat the trick if that century is not to end in failure.
Which of the following statements is true about Ivy League Envy?
选项
A、Professors are encouraged to publish more literary papers under the Ivy League Envy.
B、Ivy League Envy is a phenomenon specific to second-rate American universities.
C、Ivy League Envy stems from an abnormal obsession with academic research.
D、The decline of education quality in universities is partly attributed to Ivy League Envy.
答案
D
解析
本题主要考查对文中提出的一个概念“Ivy League Envy”的理解。这个概念首次出现在文章的第三段。在第三段的最后两句话中,作者提出了美国大学面临的另外一个严重问题就是“Ivy LeagueEnvy”。所谓的“Ivy League Envy”指的是“大部分美国大学希望通过提升其学术等级的方式改头换面,从乡巴佬大学变为耶鲁大学。”在第四段中,作者集中讨论了“Ivy League Envy”带来的负面效应。第四段的第一句话“Ivy League envy leads to an obsession with research”,“常青藤联盟嫉妒症”会使得教授们只知道一味地做研究而忽视课堂教学。[C]选项颠倒因果关系。常青藤联盟嫉妒症源于学校对于常青藤学校的盲目迷信,结果就是对于学术研究的不正常的迷恋。第四段的第二句话指出“This can be a problemeven in the best universities”,“常青藤联盟嫉妒症”并不只是二流学校的特有现象,甚至是一些一流的大学也没能幸免。[B]选项错误。第四段以文学论文为例说明了“常青藤联盟嫉妒症”现象导致学术泛滥的后果。[A]选项偷换概念,在“常青藤联盟嫉妒症”的蛊惑下,教授们被鼓励发表更多的沦文,而不是“文学论文”。正确答案为[D]。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/GtK4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
AMGEN,theworld’sbiggestbiotechnologycompany,madeitsfortunefromadrugthatfortifiesthebloodofpatientswhoareunde
ThecaseofEnronbankruptcyAstohowtotreatthebustbusinesses,AmericadiffersfromtheEuropeancountriesinthat
TheU.S.governmenthasrecentlyhelpedpeoplelearnmoreaboutthedangersofearthquakesbypublishingamap.Thismapshowst
Alzheimer’sdiseaseisaproblemofoldage.InAmerica,thereisabouta50%chancethatanindividualwillhavedevelopeditb
Thenationaldebateaboutdivorcehasgenerallyfocusedontheworstoutcomes,withmanyassumingthereisnoneedtoworryabou
Afieldissimplyasocialsystemofrelationsbetweenindividualsorinstitutionswhoarecompetingforthesamestake.Anexam
Justtwoweeksagothefederalgovernmentcanceled"FutureGen,"agovernment-industryprojecttodeveloptechnologiesforburni
Researchonanimalintelligencealwaysmakesmewonderjusthowsmarthumansare.【C1】______thefruit-flyexperimentsdescribedi
Researchonanimalintelligencealwaysmakesmewonderjusthowsmarthumansare.【C1】______thefruit-flyexperimentsdescribedi
WriteaspeechtowelcomeProf.VincentWilson,whoisawell-knownexpertonphysics.Youshouldintroduceyouruniversitybrie
随机试题
急腹症病人最主要的临床表现是【】
设f(x)在[0,+∞)上连续,f(0)=0,f’’(x)在(0,+∞)内恒大于零,证明g(x)=在(0,+∞)内单调增加.
下列"阴虚"虚劳治疗选方中不准确的是
在设计前期工作中应预估工程设计费的投入情况,下列收费组成中,哪项是不正确的?[2003-43]
为了保证GPS网一定的几何强度,国标中对各等级GPS多边形网与附合导线网的边数做出限制,就C级网而言边数应()。
内部牵制制度是指凡是涉及款项和财物收付、结算及登记的任何一项工作,必须由两人或两人以上分工办理,以起到相互制约作用的一种工作制度。下列各项中,关于内部牵制制度的说法中,正确的是()。
中国人民银行的职能不包括()。
库存物资ABC分类管理中,下列观点表述正确的是()。
D注册会计师负责对丁公司20X4年度财务报表进行审计。在审计银行存款时,D注册会计师遇到下列事项,请代为作出正确的专业判断。丁公司某银行账户的银行对账单余额为1585000元,在检查该账户银行存款余额调节表时,D注册会计师注意到以下事项:在途存款1
维果茨基提出的关于教育和教学的重要问题不包括()。
最新回复
(
0
)