第1题
A primary draw at CUNY is a programmer for particularly clever students, launched in 2001. Some 1, 100 of the 60,000 students at CUNY's five top schools receive a rare thing in the costly world of American colleges: free education. Those accepted by CUNY's honors programmer pay no tuition fees; instead they receive a stipend of $7, 500 (to help with general expenses) and a laptop computer. Applications for early admissions into next year's programme are up 70%.
Admission has nothing to do with being an athlete, or a child of an alunmus, or having an influential sponsor, or being a member of a particularly aggrieved ethnic group—criteria that are increasingly important at America's elite colleges. Most of the students who apply to the honours programme come from relatively poor families, many of them immigrant ones. All that CUNY demands is that these students be diligent and clever.
Last year, the average standardised test score of this group was in the top 7% in the country. Among the rest of CUNY's students averages are lower, but they are now just breaking into the top third (compared with the bottom third in 1997). CUNY does not appear alongside Harvard and Stanford on lists of America's top colleges, but its recent transformation offers a neat parable of meritocracy revisited.
Until the 1960s, a good case could be made that the best deal in American tertiary education was to be found not in Cambridge or Palo Alto, but in Harlem, at a small public school called City College, the core of CUNY. America's first free municipal university, founded in 1847, offered its services to everyone bright enough to meet its grueling standards.
City's golden era came in the last century, when America's best known colleges restricted the number of Jewish students they would admit at exactly the time when New York was teeming with the bright children of poor Jewish immigrants. In 1933—54 City produced nine future Nobel laureates, including the 2005 winner for economics, Robert Aumann (who graduated in 1950).
What went wrong? Put simply, City dropped its standards. It was partly to do with demography, partly to do with earnest muddle headedness. In the 1960s, universities across the country faced intense pressure to admit more minority students. Although City was open to all races, only a small number of black and Hispanic students passed the strict tests (including a future secretary of state, Colin Powell). That, critics decided, could not be squared with City's mission to "serve all the citizens of New York". At first the standards were tweaked, but this was not enough, and in 1969 massive student protests shut down City's campus for two weeks. Faced with upheaval, City scrapped its admissions standards altogether. By 1970, almost any student who graduated from New York's high schools could attend.
The quality of education collapsed. At first, with no barrier to entry, enrolment climbed, but in 1976 the city of New York, which was then in effect bankrupt, forced CUNY to impose tuition fees. An era of free education was over, and a university which had once served such a distinct purpose joined the muddle of America's lower-end education.
By 1997, seven out of ten first-year students in the CUNY system were failing at least one remedial test in reading, writing or moths (meaning that they had not learnt
A.It has started to enjoy a high academic position.
B.The students often have get-togethers.
C.Its campuses are small and crowded.
D.In terms of sports, it is mediocre.
第2题
The Winner of a Teaching Award
We are pleased to announce that the winner of this year's Teaching Award goes to Dr. Marie Dagenais. Dr. Dagenai graduated from Universite de Montreal in 1983. She became an Assistant Professor in the Faculty in 1988. In 2000 she was appointed as Associate Dean, a very important role in the Faculty. In 2001 she was appointed to Associate Professor and was Professor five years later. For many years she has held important roles in the Association of Teaching and Learning, including being President of this Association in 2005一06. Similarly she has been heavily involved with the American Association of Distance Education and was that Association's President during. 2008- 11. She has also held a number of leadership roles in the Commission on Lifelong Education of America, one of the most important organizations in adult education.
This is an incomplete list of some of the countless important roles Dagenai has had
both within the University and beyond in the field of distance education in America. She is a very worthy winner of the year's Teaching Award.
()26. Marie is the winner of this year's Teaching Award.
()27. Marie graduated from Yale University in 1983.
()28. Marie was appointed to Professor in 2006.
()29. Marie was the president of American Association of Distance Education during 2009-11.
()30. Marie has done a great contribution to American distance education.
第3题
This is anincomplete list of some of the countless important roles Dagenai has had both within the University and beyond in the field of distance education in America.She is a very worthy winner of the year’s Teaching Award.
1.Marie is the winner of this year’s Teaching Award.
A)正确
B)错误
2.Marie graduated from Yale University in 1983.
A)正确
B)错误
3.Marie was appointed to Professor in 2006.
A)正确
B)错误
4.Marie was the president of American Association of Distance Education during 2009-2011.
A)正确
B)错误
5.Marie has done a great contribution to American distance education.
A)正确
B)错误
第4题
Now read the passageand decide if the following statements are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F). THE WINNER OF A TEACHING AWARD We are pleased to announce that the winner of this year's Teaching Award goes to Dr. Marie Dagenais. Dr. Dagenai graduated from Université de Montreal in 198
3. She became an Assistant Professor in the Faculty in 1988. In 2000 she was appointed as Associate Dean, a very important role in the Faculty. In 2001 she was appointed to Associate Professor and was Professor five years later. For many years she has held important roles in the Association of Teaching and Learning, including being President of this Association in 2005-06. Similarly she has been heavily involved with the American Association of Distance Education and was that Association's President during 2008-1
1. She has also held a number of leadership roles in the Commission on Lifelong Education of America, one of the most important organizations in adult education. This is an incomplete list of some of the countless important roles Dagenai has had both within the University and beyond in the field of distance education in America. She is a very worthy winner of the year's Teaching Award.
1.Marie is the winner of this year's Teaching Award.()
2.Marie graduated from Yale University in 1983.()
3. Marie was appointed to Professor in 2006.()
4.Marie was the president of American Association of Distance Education during 2009-11.()
5. Marie has done a great contribution to American distance education.()
第5题
A.Yes, I graduated last year
B.Yes, I’m a business major
C.No, I’m a business major
D.No, I’m a computer major
第6题
A.instead
B.anyhow
C.somehow
D.therefore
第7题
大卫和玛丽一样, 是刚从大学毕业不久的学生.
A、David looks like Mary; they graduated from the university not long ago.
B、David graduated from the university short time ago like Mary.
C、David graduated from the university not long ago as Mary did.
D、David and Mary are same, because they graduated from t
第8题
A.gained
B.gathered
C.graduated |答案JC
第9题
A. than
B. while
C. when
D. then
第11题
tes.
A.touch
B.track
C.search
D.line