Question

閱讀下面短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出最佳答案.

　　Looking ahead to 2010, it appears financially（資金上）impossible to accommodate 85,000 new students in classrooms at public four-year universities. Fortunately, such an approach（方法）is not necessary. Indeed, it's not even appropriate（合適的）.

　　Several forces are riding to the rescue. The two most important are distance learning and community and technical colleges. These will not eliminate the traditional setting where bachelor'（學(xué)士）and graduate degrees are earned. But they will be able to handle much of the growth in enrollments and the demand for higher education.

　　“When faced with a problem created by technology, apply more technology,” a late journalist once asserted. Higher education seems to be an example. New learning technology is a crucial tool in teaching new technical skills.

　　William Richardson, president of Johns Hopkins University, praised “Western Governors' University”--a virtual institution（虛擬大學(xué)）that uses the Internet and other information technology to overcome the vast distances of the West and reach people with education. “Just as the extremely controlled high school of old was perfect training for an assembly-line work force, so today's college is equally appropriate as a setting for a society whose members must acquire and manage knowledge from a wide variety of sources,” he notes.

　　Eastern Washington has long been a leader in this movement. For the past decade, Spokane's Education Service District 101 has brought the best teachers in the region to rural classrooms via satellite uplink. Washington State University（WSU） president Sam Smith reports that, during the same period, WSU managed a one-third increase in students with only 2 percent more faculty.

　　It's been done by holding growth at the main campus almost flat, setting up three branch campuses, locating learning at community colleges, and offering an extended degree program where students learn at home. In each case, technology is used to extend the “reach” of faculty.

　　The other cost-effective strategy is reliance on community and technical colleges. Here, Washington State has an edge. Its public two-year colleges provide the most extensive coverage in the nation. Jean Floten, president of Bellevue Community College, notes the system served 425,000 adult enrollees last year-a tenth all the state's adult population. Almost half were there for job training versus 40 percent for academic preparation.

（1）According to the author, to enroll more students, universities do not have to ________.

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A. enlarge their campuses

B. gain additional technical support

C. retain the traditional academic setting

D. accommodate more faculty members

（2）When the author says “Higher education seems to be an example” Paragraph 3, he means problems with higher education can be solved by all EXCEPT ________.

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A. applying new learning technology

B. using Internet and other information technology

C. teaching new technical skills

D. setting up more technical colleges

（3）It is implied in Paragraph 4 that to cope with the new problem, we should ________.

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A. set up new campuses

B. train more assembly-line workforce

C. provide knowledge through diverse means

D. reinforce high schools of old

（4）What has made possible “a one-third increase in students with only 2 percent more faculties”? _______.

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A. Technical and community college

B. New advances in science and technology

C. More learning centers

D. New school curricula

（5）Which aspect of education is mainly discussed in the text? ________.

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A. Traditional approaches

B. Top-ranked universities

C. Cost-effective strategies

D. Technology-based business

Answer 1

答案：C;A;D;A;B;B;C;A;B;D;D;C;B;C;C;A;D;B;B;A
解析：

(1) 這是一道猜測(cè)作者寫(xiě)作意圖的題目. 本文展望了21世紀(jì)上半葉教育發(fā)展的問(wèn)題和趨勢(shì)，旨在解決人們對(duì)高等教育，特別是職業(yè)技術(shù)教育不斷上升的需求與教育經(jīng)費(fèi)、設(shè)施不足之間的矛盾，論證了遠(yuǎn)程教育、社區(qū)教育、職業(yè)技術(shù)教育、虛擬大學(xué)將發(fā)揮的巨大作用.再根據(jù)作者在短文第一段敘述的展望到2010年，在四年制的公共大學(xué)的教室里，要容納8萬(wàn)5千新生，在資金上看來(lái)是不可能的，這種方法不必要，甚至是不合適的. 由此可推斷出，在作者看來(lái)，不必用擴(kuò)大大學(xué)的方法招收新生，A是最佳選項(xiàng). (2) 這是一道句意理解題.根據(jù)短文第三、四段所述，高等教育作為樣板，運(yùn)用高新技術(shù)，如用因特網(wǎng)和其他信息技術(shù)來(lái)教新技術(shù)新技藝，并不包括興建更多的技術(shù)院校，因此最佳答案選D. (3) 這是一道深層理解題.閱讀全文可以看出，解決人們對(duì)新技術(shù)、新技能、新知識(shí)需求的不斷上升問(wèn)題，應(yīng)廣泛利用現(xiàn)有的科技資源，拓寬辦學(xué)渠道. Johns Hopkins University的校長(zhǎng)William Richardson所說(shuō)的acquire and manage knowledge from a variety of sources與C項(xiàng)provide knowledge through diverse means所表達(dá)的意思相同，故C是最佳選項(xiàng). (4) 這是一道事實(shí)詢(xún)問(wèn)題.閱讀短文可知，造成師生比率懸殊的原因是沒(méi)有引入先進(jìn)的科學(xué)技術(shù).華盛頓的具體作法是通過(guò)衛(wèi)星聯(lián)網(wǎng)，將全區(qū)最好的“老師”引進(jìn)鄉(xiāng)村教室，并不需要增加大量的教職員工，最佳答案為B. (5) 這是一道主旨大意題.綜觀全文，作者不是在談?wù)搨鹘y(tǒng)方法、一流大學(xué)或以技術(shù)為本的企業(yè)，而是把所展開(kāi)的論題圍繞在高效率的辦學(xué)策略上，故C是最佳選項(xiàng).