The case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation. All high school graduates ought to go says conventional wisdom and statistical evidence because college will help them earn more money become “better” people, and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who don’t go.
But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending those who don’t fit the pattern are becoming more numerous, and more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students interfere with each other’s experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the intense competition for admission to graduate school. Others find no stimulation in their studies and drop out-often encouraged by college administrators.
Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves—they are spoiled and they are expecting too much. But that’s a condemnation of the students as a whole, and doesn’t explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the world, and they are partly right. We’ve been told that young people have to go to college because our economy can’t absorb an army of untrained eighteen-year-olds. But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer absorb an army of trained twenty-two-year-olds, either.
Some adventuresome educators and campus watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, the proper, the only place for every young person after the completion of high school. We may have been looking at all those surveys and statistics upside down, it seems, and through the rosy glow of our own remembered college experiences. Perhaps college doesn’t make people intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, or quick to learn things—maybe it’s just the other way around, and intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, quick-leaning people are merely the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place. And perhaps all those successful college graduates would have been successful whether they had gone to college or not. This is heresy to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if a little schooling is good, more has to be much better. But contrary evidence is beginning to mount up.
1.According to the author ( ).
2.In the 2nd paragraph, “those who don’t fit the pattern” refers to ( ).
3.The drop-out rate of college students seems to go up because ( ).
4.According to the passage the problems of college education partly arise from the fact that ( ).
5.In this passage the author argues that ( ).
问题1选项
A.people used to question the value of college education
B.people used to have full confidence in higher education
C.all high school graduates chose to go to college
D.very few high school graduates chose to go to college
问题2选项
A.high school graduates who aren’t suitable for college education
B.college graduates who are selling shoes and driving taxis
C.college students who aren’t any better for their higher education
D.high school graduates who failed to be admitted to college
问题3选项
A.young people are disappointed with the conventional way of teaching at college
B.many young people are required to join the army
C.young people have little motivation in pursuing a higher education
D.young people don’t like the intense competition for admission to graduate school
问题4选项
A.society cannot provide enough jobs for properly trained college graduates
B.high school graduates do not fit the pattern of college education
C.too many students have to earn their own living
D.college administrators encourage students to drop out
问题5选项
A.more and more evidence shows college education may not be the best thing for high school graduates
B.college education is not enough if one wants to be successful
C.college education benefits only the intelligent, ambitious, and quick-learning people
D.intelligent people may learn quicker if they don’t go to college
第1题:B
第2题:C
第3题:C
第4题:A
第5题:A
1.细节理解题。根据文章第一句,“The case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation.”,可知大学已经被超过一代的人们毫无疑问的接受了。可判断出人们过去总是对高等教育充满信心。选项B符合题意。
2.语义理解题。根据文章第一句,“And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending those who don’t fit the pattern are becoming more numerous, and more obvious.”,可知近一半的高中毕业生就读于那些不符合这种模式的学校,人数越来越多,现象也越来越明显。下文紧接着用例子说明了这种现象。可判断出those who don’t fit the pattern是指那些没有因为高等教育而变得更好的大学生们。选项C符合题意。
3.细节理解题。根据文章第二段最后一句,“Others find no stimulation in their studies and drop out-often encouraged by college administrators.”,可知另一些人在学习中找不到激励和鼓舞而辍学——通常是受到大学管理者的鼓励。可判断出大学生的辍学率似乎在上升的原因在于年轻人很少有追求高等教育的动力。选项C符合题意。
4.细节理解题。根据文章第三段,“We’ve been told that young people have to go to college because our economy can’t absorb an army of untrained eighteen-year-olds. But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer absorb an army of trained twenty-two-year-olds, either.”,可知我们被告知年轻人必须上大学,因为经济不会给一个18岁的未受过训练的人工作机会。但是令人沮丧的事实是,毕业生了解到社会也无法给受过大学教育的22岁的毕业生适合的工作机会。可判断出大学教育的问题部分来自于社会无法为受过良好训练的大学毕业生提供足够的工作机会。选项A符合题意。
5.作者态度题。根据文章最后一段,“This is heresy to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if a little schooling is good, more has to be much better. But contrary evidence is beginning to mount up.”,可知我们从小就被教育说接受一点教育是好的,接受的教育越多越好,这是有争议的。相反的证据也开始增多。可判断出作者认为对于高中毕业的年轻人来说,大学并非最好的、唯一的去处。选项A符合题意。