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1、大学六级-782 及答案解析(总分:667.00,做题时间:90 分钟)一、Part Writing(总题数:1,分数:106.00)1.1越来越多的大学生一毕业就迈入婚姻殿堂2产生这种现象的原因3这种现象可能带来的影响(分数:106.00)_二、Part Reading Compr(总题数:1,分数:70.00)The New Math on CampusSexual Imbalance in CollegesAfter midnight on a rainy night last week in Chapel Hill, N.C., a large group of sorority (女
2、学生联谊会) women at the University of North Carolina squeezed into a basement bar. Bathed in a colorful glow, they splashed beer from pitchers, traded jokes and shouted lyrics to a Taylor Swift heartache anthem thundering overhead. As a night out, it had everything-except guys.North Carolina, with a stu
3、dent body that is nearly 60 percent female, is just one of many large universities that at times feel weirdly like womens colleges. Women have represented about 57 percent of enrollments at American colleges since at least 2000, according to a recent report by the American Council on Education. Rese
4、archers there cite several reasons: women tend to have higher grades; men tend to drop out in disproportionate numbers; and female enrollment leads further among older students, low-income students, and black students.The Effects of the Sexual ImbalanceIn terms of academic advancement, this is hardl
5、y the worst news for women-its a sign of female achievement. But surrounded by so many other successful women, they often find it harder than expected to find a date on a Friday night. Jayne Dallas, a senior studying advertising who was seated across the table, complained that the population of male
6、 undergraduates was even smaller when you looked at it as a dating pool. “Out of that 40 percent, there are maybe 20 percent that we would consider, and out of those 20, 10 have girlfriends, so all the girls are fighting over that other 10 percent,“ she said.Needless to say, this puts guys in a posi
7、tion to play the field, and tends to mean that even the ones willing to make a commitment come with storied romantic histories. Rachel Sasser, a senior history major at the table, said that before she and her boyfriend started dating, he had “hooked up with a least five of my friends in my sorority-
8、that I know of“.These sorts of romantic complications are hardly confined to North Carolina, an academically rigorous school where most students spend more time studying than socializing. The gender imbalance is also pronounced at some private colleges, such as New York University and Lewis men tend
9、 to drop out in disproportionate numbers; and female enrollment leads further among older students, low-income students, and black students.The Effects of the Sexual ImbalanceIn terms of academic advancement, this is hardly the worst news for women-its a sign of female achievement. But surrounded by
10、 so many other successful women, they often find it harder than expected to find a date on a Friday night. Jayne Dallas, a senior studying advertising who was seated across the table, complained that the population of male undergraduates was even smaller when you looked at it as a dating pool. “Out
11、of that 40 percent, there are maybe 20 percent that we would consider, and out of those 20, 10 have girlfriends, so all the girls are fighting over that other 10 percent,“ she said.Needless to say, this puts guys in a position to play the field, and tends to mean that even the ones willing to make a
12、 commitment come with storied romantic histories. Rachel Sasser, a senior history major at the table, said that before she and her boyfriend started dating, he had “hooked up with a least five of my friends in my sorority-that I know of“.These sorts of romantic complications are hardly confined to N
13、orth Carolina, an academically rigorous school where most students spend more time studying than socializing. The gender imbalance is also pronounced at some private colleges, such as New York University and Lewis & Clark in Portland, Ore., and large public universities in states like California, Fl
14、orida and Georgia. The College of Charleston, a public liberal arts college in South Carolina, is 66 percent female. Some women at the University of Vermont, with an undergraduate body that is 55 percent female, sardonically refer to their college town, Burlington, as “Girlington“.The gender gap is
15、not universal. The Ivy League schools are largely equal in gender, and some even has a few more males. But at some schools, efforts to balance the numbers have been met with complaints that less-qualified men are being admitted over more-qualified women. In December, the United States Commission on
16、Civil Rights moved to check admissions data from 19 public and private colleges to look at whether they were discriminating against qualified female applicants.Leaving aside complaints about “affirmative action for boys“, less attention has been focused on the social difference. Thanks to simple law
17、s of supply and demand, it is often the women who must assert themselves romantically or be left alone on Valentines Day. “I was talking toil friend at a bar, and this girl just came up out of nowhere, grabbed him by the wrist, spun him around and took him out to the dance floor and started grinding
18、,“ said Kelly Lynch, a junior at North Carolina, recalling a recent experience.Students interviewed here said they believed their mating rituals reflected those of college students any where. But many of them-men and women alike said that the imbalanced population tends to twist behavior. “A lot of
19、my friends will meet someone and go home for the night and .just hope for the best the next morning,“ Ms. Lynch said, “Theyll text them and say: I had a great time. Want to hang out next week? And they dont respond.“ Even worse, “Girls feel pressured to do more than theyre comfortable with, to lock
20、it down,“ Ms. Lynch said. And the university feels obligated to admit the most qualified applicants, regardless of gender, Mr. Farmer said. “I wouldnt want any young woman here to think that theres somebody wed rather have here than her,“ he said.The phenomenon has also been an area of academic inqu
21、iry, formally and informally. “On college campuses where there are far more women than men, men have all the power to control the intensity of sexual and romantic relationships,“ Kathleen A. Bogle, a sociologist at La Salle University in Philadelphia, wrote in an e-mail message. Her book, “Hooking U
22、p: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus,“ was published in 2008. “Women do not want to get left out in the cold, so they are competing for men on mens terms,“ she wrote. “This results in more casual hook-up encounters that do not end up leading to more serious romantic relationships. Since colle
23、ge women say they generally want something more than just a casual hook-up, women end up losing out.“Women on gender-imbalanced campuses are paying a social price for success and, to a degree, are being victimized by men precisely because they have outperformed them, Professor Campbell said. In this
24、 way, some colleges mirror retirement communities, where women often find that the reward for outliving their husbands is competing with other widows for the attentions of the few surviving bachelors.At colleges in big cities, women do have more options. “By my sophomore year, I just had the feeling
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