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问题             The Changes of American College Students Enrollment System
    In an ideal world, the nation’s elite schools would enroll the most qualified students. But that’s not how it works. Applicants whose parents are alums get special treatment, as do athletes and rich kids. Underrepresented minorities are also given preference. Thirty years of affirmative action have changed the complexion of mostly white universities; now about 13 percent of all undergraduates are black or Latino. But most come from middle and upper-middle-class families. Poor kids of all ethnicities remain scarce. A recent study by the Century Foundation found that at the nation’s 146 most competitive 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 roughly $ 35,000 or less.
    Many schools say diversity—racial, economic and geographic—is key to maintaining intellectually vital campuses. But Richard Kahlenberg of the Century Foundation says that even though colleges claim they want poor kids, "they don’t try very hard to find them." As for rural students, many colleges don’t try at all. "Unfortunately, we go where we can generate a sizable number of potential applicants," says Tulane admissions chief Richard Whiteside, who recruits aggressively and in person—from metropolitan areas. Kids in rural areas get a glossy brochure in the mail.
    Even when poor rural students have the grades for top colleges, their high schools often don’t know how to get them there. Admissions officers rely on guidance counselors to direct them to promising prospects. In affluent high schools, guidance counselors often have personal relationships with both kids and admissions officers. In rural areas, a teacher, a counselor or even an alumnus "can help put rural students on our radar screen", says Wesleyan admissions dean Nancy Meislahn. But poor rural schools rarely have college advisers with those connections; without them, admission "can be a crapshoot", says Carnegie Mellon’s Steidel.
    In the past few years some schools have begun to open that door a little wider. At MIT it’s something of a mission for Marilee Jones, the dean of admissions. Twenty years ago, 25 percent of each MIT class were first-generation college goers from poor backgrounds who used the celebrated engineering school as a ticket out of the blue-collar world. Five years ago, when that number dipped below 10 percent, Jones began scouring the country for bright kids, and then paired the potential applicants with MIT faculty and students who could answer questions about college life. In four years Jones has doubled the number of poor first-generation students at MIT.
Which of the following might Marilee Jones agree with?
选项 A、Renowned universities certainly attract brilliant poor students.
B、Colleges should spare no efforts to look for brilliant poor students.
C、Colleges can benefit greatly from the enrollment of poor students.
D、Many colleges have realized the importance of enrolling poor students.
答案B
解析 观点态度题。从末段第二句可以看出，玛丽利·琼斯把以积极的态度来接收贫困农村学生当作一项使命。接着第四句指出五年以前当贫困学生的数量降到10％以下时琼斯的解决办法。可见琼斯认可贫困优秀学生并希望通过各种办法提高贫困家庭第一代大学生的数量。故[B]为答案。从MIT招生办主任琼斯的做法就可以看出[A]不正确，排除；文中提到了优秀贫困学生被名牌大学录取的好处，但没有涉及这些学生给学校带来哪些好处，排除[C]；首段提到有些学校招收贫困农村学生的态度稍微积极了些，但无法推断[D]，故排除。
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