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考研英语阅读生词6.28reckoning清算application申请academic year学年popularity人数objective客观的flood with堆满bucolic campuses田园诗一般的校园raucous parties喧嚣嘈杂的派对dorms宿舍academic credibility学术上的可信度launched建立costly world花费巨大的...tuition fees学费stipend奖学金；定期津贴；固定薪金；养老金；alumnus校友sponsor赞助者（后台）a particularly aggrieved ethnic group 爱打抱不平的民间社团criteria条件；标准elite colleges elite精英；知名学府relatively相当diligent勤奋的a neat parable of meritocracy revisited neat 整洁的；parable寓言；meritocracy精英教育；revisited重游，再访问；实力主义的再现tertiary education高等教育municipal市政的；地方自治的gruelling standards严格的标准golden era黄金时期restrict限制Jewish犹太Nobel laureates诺贝尔奖得主affiliated附属的a pivotal figure on theSupreme Court一个关键人物在最高法院polio vaccine天花疫苗spawn繁衍；产卵7.1put simply简单地说drop its standards降低标准earnestmuddleheadedness认真的demography人口统计学这一部分与人口统计有关，一部分与憨头憨脑的热忱有关minority students少数民族学生race种族！！！Hispanic students拉丁美洲裔be squared with符合mission使命（宗旨）be tweaked 被调整；tweak 扭，拧，焦急；用力拉，开足马力protest抗议学生大规模的抗议让城市大学停课两周faced with upheaval面对突如其来的变化scrapp彻底废除collapse倒塌，崩溃enrolment登记，注册，入学impose加强distinct明显，独特；muddle糊涂，混乱；一所曾经有如此独特办学取向的大学从此成了美国低端教育的乌合之众commitment承担；broad access广阔途径（大众教育）；drop-out rates退学率；纽约城市大学历史性使命的核心是承担面对大众的教育义务，但是学生的高退学率和低毕业率引发了这样一个问题:…提供什么教育？commission委任remedial test加试ammunition弹药，军火；导火索profound深刻的，意义深远的congressman议员shift转移controversy争论prompt引起；howl咆哮，怒吼；faculty 科，系；能力；全体教员；ghetto犹太人区随即引起了教师们的强烈不满，他们认为这将“造成学院不同水平学生之间如犹太人区一般的分裂”respectable scoresadmissions criteria入学标准anecdotal signs小道消息；Soviet Union前苏联wood树林，森林，木头All this should not imply that CUNY is out of the woodsprecarious不稳定的journalism新闻业，新闻工作grant拨款endowment捐款penniless身无分文的alma mater母校veritable真正的broader广阔的纽约城市大学还有很多的经验值得我们学习目前美国顶尖大学的学生中仅有大约3%来自低收入家庭，而且仅有10%来自中等收入以下的家庭preferential status优先状态（享受特权）imperfections残次品，不合格折贴For all its imperfectionsdispel the myth打破这样一个谬误deter阻止donor捐赠者Unit 1（94）passage 1market-oriented economy private-enterprise民营企业market-orientedeconomy市场为导向的经济mechanism机制，原理，途径in response 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a commitment to provide broad access,but its students'high drop-out rates and low graduation rates raise the question :…Access to what?A report commissioned by the city...remedial education加试教育This prompted howls from the teaching faculty,who said it would“create a ghetto-like separation between levels of colleges”anecdotal轶事一样的；sign标签如此种种，并不表示纽约城市大学已经走出泥潭There are broader lessons to draw from CUNYonly3%of the students in America's top colleges come from families in the lowest income quartile and only 10% from the bottom half对城市大学所有不完善的方面而言dispel驱散，驱逐，消除；myth神话regulating mechanism校正机制the price will be bid upthe concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights scattered分散的“cashless society” is not on the horizon--it's already here.denote equality before the lawtwenty-seven acts of Parliament govern an enormous stockpile of informationvia television,radio,and very shortly,electronic mail to bombard people with multitudes of 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