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
[A] No disciplines have seized on professionalism with as much enthusiasm as the humanities. You can, Mr Menand points out, beco
[A] No disciplines have seized on professionalism with as much enthusiasm as the humanities. You can, Mr Menand points out, beco
admin
2019-03-23
45
问题
[A] No disciplines have seized on professionalism with as much enthusiasm as the humanities. You can, Mr Menand points out, become a lawyer in three years and a medical doctor in four. But the regular time it takes to get a doctoral degree in the humanities is nine years. Not surprisingly, up to half of all doctoral students in English drop out before getting their degrees.
[B] His concern is mainly with the humanities: literature, languages, philosophy and so on. These are disciplines that are going out of style; 22% of American college graduates now major in business compared with only 2% in history and 4% in English. However, many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should possess. But most find it difficult to agree on what a " general education" should look like. At Harvard, Mr Menand notes, "the great books are read because they have been read"they form a sort of social glue.
[C] Equally unsurprisingly, only about half end up with professorships for which they entered graduate school. There are simply too few posts. This is partly because universities continue to produce ever more PhDs. But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor’s degrees in 1970-71 than they did 20 years later. Fewer students requires fewer teachers. So, at the end of a decade of thesis-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.
[D] One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts educations and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools. Many students experience both varieties. Although more than half of Harvard undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must study a non-specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional qualification.
[E] Besides professionalising the professions by this separation, top American universities have professionalised the professor. The growth in public money for academic research has speeded the process; federal research grants rose fourfold between 1960 and 1990, but faculty teaching hours fell by half as research took its toll. Professionalism has turned the acquisition of a doctoral degree into a prerequisite for a successful academic career; as late as 1969 a third of American professors did not possess one. But the key idea behind professionalisation, argues Mr Menand, is that "the knowledge and skills needed for a particular specialisation are transmissible but not transferable. " So disciplines acquire a monopoly not just over the production of knowledge, but also over the production of the producers of knowledge.
[F] The key to reforming higher education, concludes Mr Menand, is to alter the way in which "the producers of knowledge are produced. "Otherwise, academics will continue to think dangerously alike, increasingly detached from the societies which they study, investigate and criticise. " Academic inquiry, at least in some fields, may need to become less exclusionary and more holistic. " Yet quite how that happens, Mr Menand dose not say.
[G] The subtle and intelligent little book The Marketplace of Ideas ; Reform and Resistance in the American University should be read by every student thinking of applying to take a doctoral degree. They may then decide to go elsewhere. For something curious has been happening in American universities, and Louis Menand, a professor of English at Harvard University, captured it skillfully.
选项
答案
A
解析
在剩下的[A]、[C]、[F]三个选项当中,放在[C]前的选项中必然谈论到一些“并不令人震惊的”内容,才能吻合[C]中“同样并不令人震惊的”描述,达到逻辑一致,[F]表示总结,所以[A]是43题的正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Md6Z777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
TheEarth’sdailyclock,measuredinasinglerevolution,istwenty-fourhours.Thehumanclock,【B1】______,isactuallyabout
TheEarth’sdailyclock,measuredinasinglerevolution,istwenty-fourhours.Thehumanclock,【B1】______,isactuallyabout
TheEarth’sdailyclock,measuredinasinglerevolution,istwenty-fourhours.Thehumanclock,【B1】______,isactuallyabout
TheEarth’sdailyclock,measuredinasinglerevolution,istwenty-fourhours.Thehumanclock,【B1】______,isactuallyabout
ReadthefollowingtextandanswerthequestionsbychoosingthemostsuitablesubtitlefromthelistA-Gforeachnumberedpara
ReadthefollowingtextandanswerthequestionsbychoosingthemostsuitablesubtitlefromthelistA-Gforeachnumberedpara
Everyhumanbeinghasuniquearrangementofskinonhisfingersandthisarrangementisunchangeable.Scientistsandexpertshav
Untilsuchtimeasmankindhasthesensetoloweritspopulationtothepointswhereastheplanetcanprovideacomfortablesupp
[A]Nodisciplineshaveseizedonprofessionalismwithasmuchenthusiasmasthehumanities.Youcan,MrMenandpointsout,beco
随机试题
A.呕吐不食,或呕吐清涎B.恶心欲吐,晨起尤甚C.呕吐酸水、苦水D.呕吐痰涎,胸脘满闷E.呕吐剧烈,干呕或呕吐血性物气阴两亏型妊娠剧吐的辨证要点是
患儿女,4岁,因发热1日伴皮疹来院就诊。护士观察发现该患儿皮疹集中分布在头面部,躯干与手足少见,为丘疹与疱疹。患儿诉瘙痒明显,临床诊断为水痘。该患儿所在幼儿园应当检疫多长时间()
火灾隐患是指潜在的有直接引起火灾事故可能,或者火灾发生时能增加对人员、财产的危害,或者是影响人员疏散以及影响灭火救援的一切不安全因素。按照《消防监督检查规定》(公安部第120号令)规定,下列情形可确定为火灾隐患的是()。
根据《国境卫生检疫法》的规定,受入境检疫的船舶,必须按照悬挂检疫信号,在卫生检疫机构发给入境检疫证前,不得降下检疫信号。夜间入境时,在船舶的明显处垂直悬挂下列灯号:红灯三盏,表示()
根据规定,进口减免税货物和保税货物的收货人是海关监管手续费的纳费人,代理人不可以代缴纳。()
下列不属于商用房贷款信用风险的是()。
在50年代,我国森林覆盖率为19%,60年代为11%,70年代为6%,80年代不到4%,随着森林覆盖率的逐年减少,植被大量破坏,削弱了土地对雨水的拦蓄作用,一下暴雨,水卷泥沙滚滚而下,使洪涝灾害逐年严重。可见,森林资源的破坏,是酿成洪灾的原因。以
【唐修八史】陕西师范大学2016年中国史真题;西北师范大学2018年历史学真题
某二叉树有5个度为2的结点,则该二叉树中的叶子结点数是()。
Theresidents,______hadbeendamagedbytheflood,weregivenhelpbytheRedCross.
最新回复
(
0
)