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Higher education and our university system seem to be in the news constantly. John O’Leary, editor of the Good University Guide, thinks that universities may secretly be pleased by falling numbers.
Universities all over the country are preparing themselves for the possibility of empty places when fees are ￡9,000 a year. At the same time, some of the UK’s best-known academics are staking their reputations--and some of their own money--on students paying ￡18,000 a year.
Why it should cost ￡18,000 a year to provide the cheapest subjects in higher education with visiting lecturers and few of the facilities offered by other universities is a mystery. But the big names and exclusivity might attract enough rich overseas students to see it through what will surely be a difficult opening period.
There will not be enough of either to comfort all the existing universities. Those at the top can afford a 10 per cent drop in applications and still have plent
A. feel content with school facilities
B. be offered the best subjects
C. still be attracted despite the high tuition fees
D. have a difficult time adapting to the new life

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Higher education and our university system seem to be in the news constantly. John O’Leary, editor of the Good University Guide, thinks that universities may secretly be pleased by falling numbers.
Universities all over the country are preparing themselves for the possibility of empty places when fees are ￡9,000 a year. At the same time, some of the UK’s best-known academics are staking their reputations--and some of their own money--on students paying ￡18,000 a year.
Why it should cost ￡18,000 a year to provide the cheapest subjects in higher education with visiting lecturers and few of the facilities offered by other universities is a mystery. But the big names and exclusivity might attract enough rich overseas students to see it through what will surely be a difficult opening period.
There will not be enough of either to comfort all the existing universities. Those at the top can afford a 10 per cent drop in applications and still have plent
A. John O’Leary has just released the latest issue of Good University Guide.
B. Universities are getting ready for not having enough students next year.
C. Some of the most famous scholars in the UK are found taking bribes.
D. The tuition fee for college has been proposed to rise to ￡18,000 a year.

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Although our educational system and our society generally place a high value on competition, some problems can be better solved through cooperation and some forms of learning are strengthened through cooperation. Both competition and cooperation have a place in society and can serve a useful purpose. Consequently, it is necessary to be able to engage in both processes depending on the circumstances and one’s goals.
In the academic environment grades are often conceived as the major criterion (标准) for the assessment of learning. We tend to assume that the higher one’s grade average, the more one has learned, thus creating greater competition for grades. This competition can be particularly intense in fields where the financial rewards are great and opportunity is limited: law, engineering, medicine, and business.
However, the measure of one’s learning is not limited to grades. It is possible to learn a great deal about a subject and receive a low
A. competition and cooperation are related
B. cooperation is more important
C. cooperation and competition are both needed
D. competition is more important

[单项选择]Salaries for （）positions seem to be higher than for permanent ones.
A. legal
B. optional
C. voluntary
D. temporary

[单项选择]Salaries for ______ positions seem to be higher than for permanent ones.
A. legal
B. optional
C. voluntary
D. temporary

[单项选择]We spend our leisure hours efficiently for higher production, live by the clock even when time does not matter, modernize our homes and speed the machinery of living in order that we can go to the most places and do the most things in the shortest period of time possible. We try to eat, sleep, and talk efficiently. Even on holidays and Sundays, the efficient man relaxes on timetable with one eye on the clock and the other on an appointment sheet.
To squeeze the most out of each shining hour we have shortened the opera, quickened the pace of the movie and put culture in pocket-sized packages. We make the busy bee look like a lazy creature, the ant like a sluggard. We live sixty-mile-minute and the great efficiency smiles.
We wish we could return to that pleasant day when we considered time a friend instead of an enemy; when we did things willingly and because we wanted to, rather than because our timetable called for it, But that of course would not be efficiency
A. the modern pace
B. our interest in shortened operas
C. how to make the best use of leisure time
D. planning our time scientifically

[简答题]The system of higher education in the United States is complex. It comprises four categories of institutions. The university, which may contain: (A) several colleges for undergraduate students seeking a bachelor’s (four-year) degree and (B) one or more graduate schools for those continuing in specialized studies beyond the bachelor’s degree to obtain a master or a doctoral degree; the four-year undergraduate institution— the college—most of which are not part of a university; the technical training institution, at which high school graduates may take courses ranging from six months to four years in duration and learn a wide variety of technical skills, from hair styling through business accounting to computer programming; and the two-year, or community college, from which students may enter many professions or may transfer to four-year colleges or universities. Any of these institutions, in any category, might be either public or private, depending on the source of its funding. Ther

[单项选择] Our multimillion nerve-cell central nervous system has its roots in the scattered nerve cells of tiny, lowly organisms that lived in water half a billion years ago. Nerve cells evidently first appeared in coelenterates —"hollow-gutted" organisms like hydra and the sea anemone. A coelenterate’’s nerve network lacks any kind of centralized control. This probably began with flatworms — the first creatures to possess a head, specialized sense cells help flatworms respond more flexibly than sea anemones to outside stimulus. But like most animals without a backbone, flatworms act mostly by instinct and reflex. Intelligent behavior remained impossible until the appearance of relatively big, complex types of brain — the types we find among the backboned animals, or vertebrates. The tiniest fish has a larger brain than the largest insect. But the development of a fish’’s three-part brain reflects that beast’’s unin-tellectual priorities. Much of the forebrain deals only with smell. Th
A. The cerebellum.
B. The forebrain.
C. The cerebrum.
D. The midbrain.