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大学英语四级阅读Test 5 Reading Passage One

2020-08-14

Passage One

 

Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.

 

One of the most interesting paradoxes in America today is that Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, is now engaged in a serious debate about what a university should be, and whether it is measuring up.

 

Like the Roman Catholic Church and other ancient institutions, it is asking, still in private rather than in public, whether its past assumptions about faculty, authority,admissions, courses of study, are really relevant to the problems of the 1990s.

 

Should Harvard or any other university be an intellectual sanctuary, apart from the political and social revolution of the age, or should it be a laboratory for experimentation with these political and social revolutions; or even an engine of the revolution? This is what is being discussed privately in the big clapboard(隔板)houses of faculty members around the Harvard Yard.

 

The issue was defined by Waiter Lippmann, a distinguished Harvard graduate,several years ago . " If the universities are to do their work , " he said , " they must be independent and they must be disinterested... They are places to which men can turn for judgments which are unbiased by partisanship(党派性)and special interest.Obviously, the moment the universities fall under political control, or under the control of private interests, or the moment they themselves take a hand in politics and the leadership of government, their value as independent and disinterested sources of judgment is impaired."

 

This is part of the argument that is going on at Harvard today. Another part is the argument of the militant and even many moderate students: that a university is the keeper of our ideals and morals, and should not be "disinterested" but activist in bringing the nation's ideals and actions together.Harvard's men of today seem more troubled and less sure about personal,political and academic purpose than they did at the beginning. They are not even clear about how they should debate and resolve their problems, but they are struggling with them privately, and how they come out is bound to influence American university and political life in the 1990s.

 

52. The word "sanctuary"(Line 1, Para. 3) is          

A)a holy place dedicated to a certain god

B) a temple or nunnery of middle age

C) a certain place you can hide in and avoid trouble

D) an academy for intelligent people

 

53. Contrary to the militant, some people believe that a university         .

A) is the protector of our ideals and morals

B) should work hard for the nation's ideals

C) should be independent and disinterested

D) should try hard to do its own work

 

54. With which of the following can Waiter Lippmann agree?

A) Universities should fight militarism.

B)Universities should be independent of politics.

C) Universities should stay away from the society.

D) Universities should stay away from interests.

 

55. In regard to their goals and purposes in life, the author believes that Harvard men are becoming       .

A) more sure about them

B)less sure about them

C) completely disillusioned about them

D) more hopeful of reaching a satisfactory answer

 

56. According to the passage, the argument going on at Harvard      .

A) is a sad symbol of our general bewilderment

B) will soon be over because times are bound to change C) is of interest mostly to Harvard men

D)will influence future life in America

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