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1、大学四级-1893 及答案解析(总分:710.00,做题时间:90 分钟)一、Part Writing(总题数:1,分数:103.00)1.许多野生动物濒临灭绝2造成这种现象的原因3提出解决措Saving Wild Animals(分数:103.00)_二、Part Reading Compr(总题数:1,分数:70.00)A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for CollegesStudents starting school this year may be part of the last generation for which “going to col
2、lege“ means packing up, getting a dorm room and listening to tenured (终身的) professors. Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering. Colleges, like newspapers, will be torn apart by new ways of sharing information enabled by the Internet. The business model that sustained private
3、U.S. colleges cannot survive.The real force for change is the market: Online classes are just cheaper to produce. Community colleges and for-profit education entrepreneurs are already experimenting with dorm-free, commute-free options. Distance-learning technology will keep improving. Innovators hav
4、e yet to tap the potential of the aggregator (信息汇集公司) to change the way students earn a degree,making the education business today look like the news business around 1999. And as major universities offer some core courses online,well see a cultural shift toward acceptance of what is still, in some c
5、ircles, a “University of Phoenix“ joke.This doesnt just mean a different way of learning: The funding of academic research, the culture of the academy and the institution of tenure are all threatened.Both newspapers and universities have traditionally relied on selling hard-to-come-by information. N
6、ewspapers arrange advertising space next to breaking news, but now that advertisers find their customers on Craigslist and Cars. corn, the main source of reporters pay is vanishing. Colleges also sell information, with a slightly different promise-a degree, a better job and access to brilliant minds
7、. As with newspapers, some of these features are now available elsewhere. A student can already access videotaped lectures, full courses and openly available syllabuses (课程大 纲) online. And in five or 10 years, the curious 18- (or 54-)year-old will be able to find dozens of quality online classes, co
8、mplete with take-it-yourself tests, a bulletin board populated by other “students“ , and links to free academic literature.But the demand for college isnt just about the yearning to learn-its also about the hope of getting a degree. Online qualifications cost a college less to provide. Schools dont
9、need to rent the space, and the excessive supply of doctoral students means they can employ them as instructors and pay a fraction of the salary for a tenured professor, and assume that they will rely on shared syllabuses. Those savings translate into cheaper tuition, and even before the recession,
10、there was substantial evidence of unmet demand for cheaper college degrees. Online degrees are already relatively inexpensive. And the price will only dive in coming decades,as more universities compete.You can already see significant innovation in online education at some community colleges and for
11、-profit institutions. The community colleges are working with limited resources to maximize their offerings through Internet aggregation. For-profit institutions appear to be capitalizing on the high demand for low-cost degrees and the fact that few public schools do much traditional marketing.These
12、 entrepreneurs are a little like the early online news sharers-bloggers, contributors to mailing lists and bulletin boards,profit seekers. Just as the new model of news separated “the article“ from “the newspaper“, the new model of college will separate “the class“ from “the college“. Classes are in
13、creasingly taken credit by credit, instead of in bulk-just as news is now read article by article.Taking the newspaper analogy (类比) one step further, college aggregators will be the center of the new school experience. In the world of news, the aggregators have taken over from the newspaper as the e
14、ntry point for news consumption. Already, half of college graduates attend more than one school before graduation. Soon youll see more Web sites that make it easy to take classes from a blend of different universities.Because the current college system, like the newspaper industry, has built-in redu
15、ndancies (冗余), new Internet efficiencies will lead to fewer researchers and professors. Every major paper once had a bureau in, say,Sarajevo-now, a few foreign correspondents pieces are used in dozens of papers. Similarly, at noon on any given day, hundreds of university professors are teaching intr
16、oductory Sociology 101. The Internet makes it harder to justify these redundancies. In the future, a handful of Soc. 101 lectures will be videotaped and taught across the United States.When this happens-be it in 10 years or 20-we will see a structural disintegration (分裂) in the academy akin to that
17、in newspapers now. The typical 2030 faculty will likely be a collection of assistants alone in their apartments, using recycled syllabuses and administering multiple-choice tests from afar.Not all colleges will be similarly affected. Like The New York Times, the elite schools play a unique role in o
18、ur society,and so they can probably persist with elements of their old revenue model longer than their lesser-known competitors. Schools with state funding will be as immune as their budgets. But within the next 40 years, the majority of brick-and-mortar universities will probably find partnerships
19、with other kinds of services,or close their doors.So how should we think about this? Students who would never have had access to great courses or minds are already able to find learning online that was unimaginable in the last century. But unless we make a strong commitment to even greater funding o
20、f higher education, the institutions that have allowed for academic freedom, group learning, urJpressured research and intellectual risk-taking are themselves at risk.If the mainstream of “college teaching“ becomes a set of underpaid adjuncts (附属品), well lose a precious academic tradition that is no
21、t easily replaced.(分数:70.00)(1).What is happening to American colleges?A. College students of the new generation are tired of living in a dorm.B. College administrations are thinking about rearranging professors lectures.C. College education is revolutionized by new ways of sharing information.D. Pr
22、ivate us colleges can no longer survive in the current recession.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D.(2).What is the real force for change in us college education?A. Online courses are much less expensive to produce.B. Community colleges want to enroll more students.C. Current business models can not sustain private c
23、olleges.D. Students today are more willing to spend time indoors.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D.(3).How are newspapers going as more advertisers are reaching customers online?A. They are looking for opportunities to cooperate with websites.B. They are losing the main source of paying reporters.C. The readers are
24、finding less advertisements on newspapers.D. They are promoting online versions to attract customers.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D.(4).What benefit can schools get from the excessive supply of doctoral students?A. More doctoral students can help attract more students.B. Doctoral students can be instructors with
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