American colleges and universities failed to graduate half of their four-year degree candidates because ________.

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• 1One of the reasons for the current crisis in American colleges and universities is that ________.

  A.a narrow vocationalism has come to dominate many colleges

  B.students don’t have enough freedom in choosing what they want to learn

  C.skills are being taught as a means to an end

  D.students are only interested in obtaining credentials

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• 2By saying that “in too many academic fields, the work has no context” (Lines 4-5, Pare. 1) the author means that the teaching in these areas ________.

  A.ignores the actual situation

  B.is not based on the right perspective

  C.only focuses on an integrated core of common learning

  D.gives priority to the cultivation of a global vision among students

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• 3When a college tries to be “all things to al people” (Lines 1-2, Par

  A.1) it aims to ________.A.satisfy the needs of all kinds of students simultaneously

  B.focus on training students in various skills

  C.encourage students to take as many courses as possible

  D.make learning serve academic rather than productive ends

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• 4The emotional aspects of an object are more important than its physical aspects in that they ________.

  A.help society exploit its members for profit

  B.encourage us to perform important tasks

  C.help to perfect the legal and penal system

  D.help us adapt our behavior to the world surrounding us

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• 5Emotions are significant for man’s survival and adaptation because ________.

  A.they provide the means by which people view the size or shape of objects

  B.they are the basis for the social feeling of agreement by which society is maintained

  C.they encourage people to perform dangerous achievements

  D.they generate more love than hate among people

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• 6It can be inferred from the passage that high-quality college education calls for ________.

  A.putting academic work in the proper context

  B.a commitment to students and effective teaching

  C.the practice of putting leaning to productive ends

  D.dedication to research in frontier areas of knowledge

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• 7The Space Age ________ in October 1957 when the first artificial satellite was launched by the Soviet Union.

  A.initiated

  B.originated

  C.embarked

  D.commenced

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• 8John said that he didn’t quite ________ and asked me to repeat what I had said.

  A.snatch up

  B.summon up

  C.catch on

  D.watch out

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• 9When he tried to make a ________, he found that the hotel that he wanted was completely filled because of a convention.

  A.complaint

  B.claim

  C.reservation

  D.decision

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• 10A budget of five dollars a day is totally ________ for a trip round Europe.

  A.inadequate

  B.incapable

  C.incompatible

  D.invalid

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