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Yale University President Richard Levin has announced that at the end of the school year, his twentieth at the helm of Yale Univ

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问题     Yale University President Richard Levin has announced that at the end of the school year, his twentieth at the helm of Yale University, he will step down. The New York Times coverage outlined his achievements:
    Under his presidency, the university has greatly expanded its academic facilities, including new quarters for science and medicine and a new business school campus; has overhauled its buildings, including all 12 undergraduate residential colleges; has started construction of two residential colleges to make room for the first major expansion in undergraduate enrollment in decades; and has embarked on new programs overseas. "Rick’s presidency hasn’t been revolutionary," said Anthony Kronman, a former law school dean. "It’s been a steady, persistent accumulation that, I would say, add up to a massive set of achievements. "【R1】______
    Levin has certainly between a master fundraiser, and he has increased the quantity and quality of university facilities that had deteriorated after many years of deferred maintenance. 【R2】______
    When it comes to intellectual leadership, however, Levin’s epitaph should not be so sunny.
    First, Levin has presided over a contraction in the embrace of free speech. In 2012, the university came in fifth on a list of the top 12 university violators of free speech. Compromises inherent in Yale’s overseas branch in Singapore are only the latest in a series neatly summarized by recent Yale graduate Shaun Tan. 【R3】______Levin has also presided over an increase in punishment for controversial and offensive speech, such as some students’ crude ridicule of the university Women’s Center.
    Infantilizing students has been an even greater and more deleterious Levin legacy. Rather than let students sink or swim on their own merits and excel on their own initiative, Levin has built a formidable support structure to coddle students at almost every level.【R4】______ The infantilizing has expanded into the extra-curricular and even off-campus spheres.
    Eviscerating donor intent is a third Levin legacy.【R5】______Never mind that Levin’s salary has continued to increase, even as funds for student opportunities have been cut. No longer will top Classics majors, for example, be able to study in Greece because their funding has been cut to less than that of roundtrip airfare, a move meant to demonstrate fairness to other groups like sociology majors, whose alumni hadn’t given equal amounts to enable such scholarships.
    Universities have become a big business. If Levin is judged just by the financial balance sheet, then perhaps he succeeded. If he is judged, however, by the inculcation of liberty, individual responsibility, and a willingness to stand up for intellectual principle, than, alas, he has failed.
[A]There’s nothing wrong, of course, with providing tutoring services for those who require and request it, but monitoring a student progress at every level to blur the distinction between hard word and entitlement does both students and employers a disservice.
[B]Dr. Levin’s administration has increased Yale’s endowment faster than those of its peers, despite heavy capital spending; as of mid-2011, it stood at $19.4 billion, second only to Harvard’s.
[C]Lawyers might explain university actions in terms of the concept of in loco parents, the idea that the university is legally required to act in place of parents to protect students.
[D]He has also improved relations with both the city of New Haven and the local unions, largely by giving into their demands, in a sense another type of deferred maintenance.
[E]While bureaucratic logic can explain the requirement for student organizations to register their activity, big brother management runs roughshod over student initiative and increasingly inculcates students to the idea that they must always rely on larger government structures.
[F]Levin also presided over unprecedented editorial interference in the Yale University Press to prevent publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in an academic work about the controversial cartoons.
[G]Levin has capped student prizes and awards to equalize them across departments, diverting any excess into the university’s general fund.
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答案D
解析 本文作者对莱文的评价是很客观的，既认可他为耶鲁大学的发展、基础建设、基金筹集等方面所做的贡献，也指出了他在发展耶鲁言论自由、独立自主等氛围方面的不足。文章的前三段都在讲莱文的政绩，第四段首句用了转折连词however，之后所叙述的内容均是对莱文的负面评价，由此可以判断此处空格内容应仍为对莱文的正面评价，选项中只有[D]是对莱文的正面评价He has also improved relations with…，因此[D]为正确答案。
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