CET6 92年6月试题

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CET6 92年6月试题

92*6 While Americas grade-school and high-school system is coming under attack, one fact remains: U.S. universities are among the best in the world. Since World War II, American scientists-mostly working in universities or colleges-have won more than half of all Nobel Prizes in physics and medicine. Foreign students rush to the United States by the tens of thousands; last year they earned more than one quarter of the doctoral degrees awarded in the country. Yet while American universities produce great research and great graduate programme, they some-times pay little attention to the task that lies at their very core: the teaching of undergraduate students. In an era of $20,000 academic years, college presidents can no longer afford to ignore the creeping rot at their core. In speeches and interviews the nations higher educators have rediscovered teaching. Robert Rosenzweig, president of the Association of American Universities, said: Our organization was never very concerned about teaching. In the last 18 months, we have spent more time on undergraduate education than on any other subject. Despite such promising efforts, no one doubts that research still outranks teaching

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at the leading universities, not least because it is a surer and faster way to earn status. Some people dont think it has to be that way. They argue that the reward system for college faculty can be changed, so that professors will be encouraged to devote more time and effort to teaching. They say that they are beginning to believe that the 1990s may come to be remembered as the decade of the undergraduate. That would bring it full circle. For more than two centuries after the founding of Harvard College in 1636, the instruction of undergraduate students was an essential condition of American higher education. 31. Which of the following would be the best TITLE for this passage? A) University Education in the U.S. B) University Education Challenged C) Teaching and Research in Universities D) Undergraduate Teaching Rediscovered 32. The first sentence in the second paragraph means that ________. A) with a budget of $ 20,000, presidents find it difficult to keep their universities going B) with the increase in fees, educators feel obliged to improve undergraduate teaching C) with a $ 20,000 budget, presidents find it difficult to stop the creeping rot in their universities D) with the decrease in fees, educators cant afford to lay equal stress on both research and teaching 33. According to paragraph 3, some people think