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
外语
In recent years American society has become increasingly dependent on its universities to find solutions to its major problems.
In recent years American society has become increasingly dependent on its universities to find solutions to its major problems.
admin
2012-04-23
35
问题
In recent years American society has become increasingly dependent on its universities to find solutions to its major problems. It is the universities that have been charged with the principal responsibility for developing the expertise to place men on the moon; for dealing with our urban problems and with our deteriorating environment; for developing the means to feed the world’s rapidly increasing population. The effort involved in meeting these demands presents its own problems. In addition, however, this concentration on the creation of new knowledge significantly impinges on the universities’ efforts to perform their other principal functions, the transmission and interpretation of knowledge--the imparting of the heritage of the past and the preparing of the next generation to carry it forward.
With regard to this, perhaps their most traditionally sanctioned task, colleges and universities today find themselves in a serious bind generally. On the one hand, there is the American commitment, entered into especially since World War I, to provide higher education for all young people who can profit from it. The result of the commitment has been a dramatic rise in enrollments in our universities, coupled with a radical shift from the private to the public sector of higher education. On the other hand, there are serious and continuing limitations on the resources available for higher education.
While higher education has become a great "growth industry", it is also simultaneously a tremendous drain on the resources of the nation. With the vast increase in enrollment and the shift in priorties away from education in state and federal budgets, there is in most of our public institutions a significant decrease in per capital outlay for their students. One crucial aspect of this drain on resources lies in the persistent shortage of trained faculty, which has led, in turn, to a declining standard of competence in instruction.
Intensifying these difficulties is, as indicated above, the concern with research, with its competing claims on resources and the attention of the faculty. In addition, there is a strong tendency for the institutions’ organization and functioning to conform to the demands of research rather than those of teaching.
The phrase "impinge on" most probably means ______.
选项
A、promote
B、rely on
C、have an impact on
D、block
答案
C
解析
根据上下文可以知道“impinge on”意为“对…产生影响”,故C为正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/rTiO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
ThejuryinEnglandusuallyconsistsof______citizens.
A、hewasfoundguiltyoftorturingCroatianprisoners.B、hewasinvolvedintheoperationtokill6people.C、hewasconvictedo
MesaVerdeisthecenteroftheprehistoricAnasaziculture.ItislocatedinthehighplateaulandsnearFourCorners,whereCo
FromthefirstnovelSisterCarrieon,______sethimselftoprojecttheAmericanvaluesforwhathehadfoundthemtobemateri
Theideathatgovernmentshouldregulateintellectualpropertythroughcopyrightsandpatentsisrelativelyrecentinhumanhist
窗子许里面人看出去,同时也许外面人看进来,所以在热闹地方住的人要用窗帘儿,替他们的私生活做个保障。晚上访人,只要看窗里有无灯光,就约略可以猜到主人在不在家,不必打开了门再问,好比不等人开口,从眼睛里看出他的心思。关窗的作用等于闭眼。天地间有许多景象是要闭了
书籍源源不断地问世,因此选定“名著”书目的工作似乎也无止境。书总是多得读不胜读。多少世纪以来,书籍的数量与日俱增,越来越名的名著佳作书目有待选定。不管你在世界上活多久,充其量也只能浏览浩瀚书海中的极小部分,而且在这些你读过的少数书中应包括经典名著。事
为了看日出,我常常早起。那时天还没有大亮,周围非常清静,船上只有机器的响声。天空还是一片浅蓝,颜色很浅。转眼间天边出现了一道红霞,慢慢地在扩大它的范围,加强它的亮光。我知道太阳要从天边升起来了,便目不转睛地望着那里。果然过了一会儿,在那个地方出现了太阳的小
Contrasttoresearchers’expectations,dysfunctionalfamilyrelationshipsandpoor【M1】______communicationstylesappeartoh
"Learned"wordsarefromthemoreformativeconversationofhighlyeducatedspeakerswhoarediscussingsomeparticulartopics.
随机试题
头脑风暴训练应遵循的基本原则是()。
王先生成立了一家个人独资企业。该企业年度会计报表反映:2014年度的主营业务收入70万元,投资收益10万元,营业成本43万元,营业税金及附加4万元,销售费用5.50万元,管理费用8.50万元,营业外支出5万元,利润总额14万元。经税务部门审核,发
教师职业是极其繁重而需要自我牺牲精神的职业,因此必须()。
学生在记忆无意义音节时,前面的练习加快了对后面音节的记忆。这是()的影响。
要插入页眉和页脚,首先要切换到()视图方式下。
古代两河流域最具代表性的文学作品足()。
设f(x)在[a,b]上连续,在(a,b)内可导,且f(a)=f(b)=0,.证明:存在ξi∈(a,b)(i=1,2),且ξi≠ξ2,使得f’(ξi)+f(ξi)=0(i=1,2);
Howdifferentwouldtheworldbetodayiftherehadbeenno9/11?Whatiftheattackshadbeenfoiledorbungled?Oneobviousan
图书(总编号c(6),分类号C(8),书名C(16),作者C(6),出版单位C(20),单价N(6,2))读者(借书证号C(4),单位C(8),姓名C(6),性别C(2),职称C(6),地址C(20))借阅(借书证号C(4),总编号C(6),借书曰
Whichofthefollowingcanbeconcludedfromthefirstparagraph?WhichofthefollowingmaybestSummarizethetext?
最新回复
(
0
)