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A recent study concluding that the first two years of undergraduate education makes very little difference in students’ abilitie

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问题     A recent study concluding that the first two years of undergraduate education makes very little difference in students’ abilities to read critically and write clearly points to a troubling fact in higher education. We are not doing an adequate job of preparing students for life and work in the 21st century. There are many reasons for students’ difficulties. Far too many come to college today less well prepared than in the past and are not able to work at the level that should be required of them. It is essential to develop an approach to reform that integrates K-12 and college education.
    The challenges students face are compounded by pressures faculty members face. The imbalance between research and teaching has led to curricula that are over-specialized. Many of the courses offered are of little interest or use to students. When a person’s professional future depends on research and publication, there is very little incentive to spend time teaching and working with students.
    But even well intentioned teachers who would like to do more for their students often face insurmountable difficulties. Growing financial problems make it virtually impossible to provide the kind of education students deserve. While faculty members and graduate students are being cut, many schools are trying to increase income by admitting more students, leaving insufficient professional teacher for the students recruited.
    When there is pressure to teach large classes to help the bottom line, the wisest policy is to assign little reading or writing and to grade easily. Teaching well takes lots of time and helping student to learn to read critically and write well cannot be done in lecture halls with hundreds of students.
    The situation is even worse than recent reports suggest. Students are going to need new skills and different literacy in the future. The technological revolution that continues to take place is transforming the very structure of knowledge and, by extension, is changing the way people think, read and write. Traditional skills and competence in reading and writing are still necessary but are no longer sufficient. We must also teach students to be as critical and creative in new media as they should be in the old.
    None of this will be easy or cheap but it must be done now. There has to be a thorough reassessment of the value of teaching and significant reallocation of resources within colleges and universities as well as the country at large.
What can we infer from the recent study?
选项 A、People begin to doubt the significance of higher education.
B、Higher education is reduced to worthless for students.
C、Students are causing great trouble to higher education.
D、A great revolution has taken place in undergraduate education.
答案A
解析 推理判断题。由题干关键词recent study定位至第一段第一句。文章开篇指出一项研究得出结论：头两年的大学本科教育对提高学生的批判性阅读以及条理清晰的写作能力并没有多大意义。可见，人们对高等教育的重要性开始有所怀疑，故[A]符合文意。由以上分析可知，高等教育在提高学生某些能力方面有所不足，但并不是说它毫无价值，[B]夸大事实；高等教育在提高学生能力方面有所不足，并不是说学生给高等教育带来麻烦，[C]将二者颠倒；文中指出要改善教育现状必须要进行高等教育改革，但这并不是该项研究得出的，[D]属于无中生有，故排除。
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