四川?大学“?大学英语（阅读与翻译）- 2期末考试试题”
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（2019—2020学年年第2学期）
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Part I Reading Comprehension (65 points)
Section A (3.5*10 = 35 points)
Directions:Read the following passage and use NO MORE THAN FIVE WORDS to fill in each blank in the outline below. Remember to write down the answers on the Answer Sheet.
California's Higher Education - From American Dream to Dilemma
[1] For the Golden State of California, 1960 was a golden year: It was a time of rapid development, and part of this massive development was a system of public higher education.
[2] California's higher education prospects of 1960 were built on a distinctive historical foundation. The idea that the state's colleges and universities could
the source of an informed, responsible citizenry and state leadership had been established by legislators and voters by World War I.
[3] Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the University of California, who served from 1930 to 1958, built on this early vision. He set up six campuses statewide as part of a creation of a multi-campus system to meet California's growing demand for higher education.
[4] In 1958, Clark Kerr was named president of the University of California system. With Kerr's efforts higher education became part of the California dream. In 1960 the state legislature passed the Donahoe Act, which included a 246-page report, \Higher Education in California, 1960-1975.\Clark Kerr on its cover as the \[5]
The California dream of higher education combined access to higher education with
affordability and choice. The new California policy of no tuition was extended to all public colleges and universities statewide. Furthermore, the master plan promoted state-funded student scholarships through a state agency created in 1955, the California Student Aid Commission.
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–[6] California came to provide a high quality of education – the best in the cou
1966 report by the American Council on Education shows that University of California, Berkeley was the top university at the time in America for overall quality in graduate education. Between 1939 and 1968, 12 professors at UC Berkeley had received the Nobel Prize, the highest number at any university.
[7] Resources were made available for the realization of the dream. As part of passing the Donahoe Act in 1960, the California state government approved US$1 billion in funding for higher education facilities. Central to its growth was an expansion of campuses. Between 1964 and 1965 the University of California built three new campuses –Diego, Irvine and Santa Cruz.
[8] By 1967, however, the master plan was encountering problems –increasingly seemed not sustainable.
[9] State Senator George Deukmejian voiced Republican concerns about higher education. He argued in favor of adding a tuition charge for University of California students and endorsed Governor Ronald Reagan's new \called for a modest tuition of $250 per year for the university and $80 per year in the state colleges.
[10] The Republican reform plan included grants or loans to those who could not afford the modest tuition. It was noted that half of the enrolled students came from relatively affluent families. Only about 12 percent came from modest-income families earning $6,000 year or less.
[11] Today, California's higher education system struggles with budget cuts and an uncertain future. There are concerns that the public universities are soon going to be \no more.%university, Berkeley, has been hit by budget cuts. At the same time, the state's outstanding private colleges and universities have soared in terms of academic standards, selective admissions, tuition revenues, new construction and federal research grants.
[12] The master plan has struggled to keep up. It has gone through many reviews and revisions, the latest of which, in 2017, emphasized improving access and affordability. But the convergence of these trends, combined with fluctuations in the state economy and tax revenues, has turned the Californian dream of higher education into an American dilemma.
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California's Higher Education - From American Dream to Dilemma: An Outline I.
Start of the Dream
A.1 _______________________ formed by World War I B.Robert Gordon Sproul2_______________________’s
II.The Dream Years
A.Clark Kerr3’_______________________s
B.4 _______________________ of higher education C.California
5’_______________________ of education s
D.Funding and 6_______________________III.7_______________________ Encountered
A.George Deukmejian
’s argument for a 8 _______________________
B.9 _______________________ to poor studentsIV.Realities Today: the Dilemma
A.Struggles with 10 _______________________B.Struggles with the master plan
Section B (2*15 = 30 points)
Directions:There are 6 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and write it down on the Answer Sheet.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.
[1]What do Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Usher and Lady Gaga have in
common apart from being highly popular, and rich, music singers? The answer is they all owe some of their success to people behind the scenes from a relatively small country in northern Europe
– Sweden. Ever since ABBA exploded onto the world stage in 1974 by
winning the European song contest with their easy-to-sing-along hit
“Waterloogroups, and more importantly the people who make the groups what they are, have had a disproportionate influence on modern music. To understand why this should be so it is important to see how Sweden nurtures its musical talent.
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四川大学英语2020期末考试试题
