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1、阅读理解模拟试卷 12及答案与解析 0 How Do Universities Deal With the Enrollment Law of Minority Preference? As students primp and preen to wow their favorite colleges, theres one characteristic they cant control: their race. Thats one reason voters, courts and politicians in six states have outlawed racial prefere
2、nces in college admissions, while other colleges, fearful of lawsuits, play down their affirmative-action efforts these days. But make no mistake: race still matters. How much depends on the school and the state. In Texas, public universities have managed to counteract the effect of racial-preferenc
3、e bans by automatically admitting the top 10% of the graduating class of every high school, including those schools where most students are minorities. But Rice University in Houston, private and highly selective, has had to reinvent its admissions strategies to maintain the schools minority enrollm
4、ent. Each February, 80 to 90 black, Hispanic and Native American kids visit Rice on an expenses-paid trip. Rice urges counselors from high schools with large minority populations to nominate qualified students. And in the fall, Rice sends two recruiters on the road to find minority applicants; each
5、recruiter visits about 80 predominantly black or Hispanic high schools. Two weeks ago, Rice recruiter Tamara Slier dropped in on Westlake High in Atlanta where 99% of the 1,296 students are black. Slier went bearing literature and advice, and though only two kids showed up, she said, “Im pleased I g
6、ot two.“ Rice has also resorted to some almost comical end-runs around the spirit of the law. The university used to award a yearly scholarship to a Mexican-American student; now it goes to a student who speaks Spanish really well. Admissions officers no longer know an applicants race. But a new ess
7、ay question asks about each students “background“ and “cultural traditions“. When Rice officials read applications, they look for “diverse life experiences“ and what they awkwardly call “overcome students“, who have triumphed over hardship. Last spring, admissions readers came across a student whose
8、 SAT score was lower than 1,200 and who did not rank in the top 10 % of her class. Numerically speaking, she lagged far behind most accepted applicants. But her essay and recommendations indicated a strong interest in civil rights and personal experience with racial discrimination. She was admitted.
9、 “All the newspapers say affirmative action is done,“ says a veteran counselor at a large New York City high school. “But nothing has changed. I have a (minority) kid at Yale with an SAT score in the high 900s.“ While minority admissions at the University of California system overall have dipped onl
10、y slightly since a ban on affirmative action took effect in 1998, they have plummeted at the most selective campuses. At Berkeley, for example, the class entering this fall included 608 Chicano students, vs. 1013 in 1997. In response, the elite schools have moved aggressively to recruit at minority
11、high schools and even to improve the performance of students who are graduating from them. This year the U. C. system will spend $ 250 million on outreach, from installing tutors at low-income schools to inviting high school teachers to summer calculus seminars. 1 Affirmative action is something_. (
12、 A) that guarantees students of different races to be admitted equally ( B) American citizens fight against because it discriminates minority students ( C) colleges take to give preference to minority students in college admission ( D) favored by American colleges yet unpopular with American public
13、2 Rice University sent two recruiters to find minority applicants because_. ( A) Rice wanted to maintain minority enrollment ( B) minority students have better school performance ( C) Rice has a large minority population ( D) Rice is famous for admitting minority students 3 The writer mentioned Rice
14、s some comic end-runs around the spirit of the law to show that_. ( A) Rice abides by the law strictly ( B) Rice deals with students in a comic way ( C) Rice prefers minority students ( D) Rice has its own ways of dealing with the law 4 It seems that minority students_. ( A) are still benefiting fro
15、m affirmative action ( B) have lower SAT scores ( C) are often admitted by universities because they have unique racial experience ( D) lag far behind than other students in school performance 5 The word “plummeted“ (Line 5, Paragraph 5) most probably means_. ( A) doubled ( B) risen ( C) stayed the
16、same ( D) decreased 5 Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Understandably, Margo Parisi wanted to take every possible step to reduce the risk that her new born son, Luca, would die of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). So the mom followed the “Back to Sleep“ guidelines from the National Institute of Child
17、 Health and Human Development (NICHD) , putting Luca to sleep on his back, shunning blankets and pillows and keeping the temperature cool. She also turned on the ceiling fan; she had read a newspaper article that said researchers were investigating whether that might help. After all, she had read a
18、newspaper article that said researchers were investigating whether that might help. After all, she and her husband already had the fan. “Its cheap and easy; not going to harm the baby,“ she says,“its one more thing you can do as a parent that can prevent something horrible from happening.“ So far al
19、l the precautions have paid off: at 14 weeks, Luca is happy and healthy. Parisi is one of a growing number of parents taking measures to reduce the risk of SIDS defined as “ the sudden death of an infant under 1 year of age, which remains unexplained after a thorough case investigation, including pe
20、rformance of a complete autopsy, examination of the death scene, and review of the clinical history. “In fact, the campaign to educate people about the syndrome has been so successful that infant deaths due to SIDS have been cut in half since the NICHD introduced its Back to Sleep campaign in 1994.
21、Nonetheless, each year SIDS kills about 2, 300 U. S. babies, about one infant out of every 2, 000 live births, according to the American SIDS Institute. Three new studies published today look at how that number might be further reduced. In the October issue of the Archives of Pediatric all told, the
22、y had 185,000 managers in 2007, up from about 120,000 managers 20 years earlier. 21 Why did many colleges stop hiring more staff? ( A) Because the rate of support staff growth surpassed that of enrollment growth. ( B) Because they had more staff than needed. ( C) Because the current economic depress
23、ion caused them to do so. ( D) Because the staff expenditure was too high. 22 What is believed by most experts to be the main reason for increasing tuition? ( A) The increasing number of the full-time support staff. ( B) The reduction in the government funding for higher education. ( C) The rising i
24、nflation in the country. ( D) The increasing number of the students. 23 Which of the following belongs to support staff? ( A) Instructors. ( B) IT workers. ( C) President. ( D) Department dean. 24 According to Mr. Bennett, universities and colleges significantly increase the number of their full-tim
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