(精品)CET-42009.12解析 (2)

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,CET 4Dec.2009,Part II Reading comprehension,Listening Comprehension,Long Conversations,Passages,Part IV Reading in Depth,Part IV Reading in,Depth(passages,),Part V Cloze,Part Translation,essay,Part II Reading comprehension,(Skimming and Scanning)(15minutes),Colleges taking another look at value of,merit-based aid,大学重新审视奖学金的价值,Part Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning),1.B 2.D 3.C 4.D,5.B 6.A 7.C,8.qualified,9.recognizes,10.excellence,Good grades and high tests scores still mattera lotto many colleges as they award,financial aid,.,But,with low-income students,projected,to make up an ever-larger share of the college-bound population in coming years,some schools are re-examining whether that aid,typically known as“merit aid”,is the most effective use of precious institutional dollars.,但是在未来几年里，,预计,低收入家庭的学生数占大学生总数的比例越来越大。一些学校正在重新考虑奖学金是否是利用大学宝贵的资金最有效的途径。,1.With more and more low-income students pursuing higher education,a number of colleges are _.,A)offering students more merit-based aid,B)revising their financial aid policies,C)increasing the amount of financial aid,D)changing their admission processes,project,v.,预测；推断,If something,is projected,it is planned or expected.,Eg,.,The government had been,projecting,a 5%consumer price increase for the entire year.,=forecast /predict,2.What did Allegheny College in Meadville do three years ago?,A)It tried to implement a novel financial aid program.,B)It added$2.5 million to its need-based aid program.,C)It phased out its merit-based scholarships altogether.,D)It cuts its merit-based aid to help the needy students.,George Washington University in Washington,D.C.,for example,said last week that it would,cut the value of its average merit scholarships,by about one-third and reduce the number of,recipients,（接受者）,pouring the savings,about$2.5 million,into need-based aid,.Allegheny College in Meadville,Pa.,made a similar decision three years ago.,Not all colleges,offer merit aid,;generally,the more selective a school,the less likely it is to do so.,Harvard and Princeton,for example,offer generous need-based packages,but many families who dont,meet need,eligibility,（资格）,have been willing to pay whatever they must for a big-name school.,For small regional colleges that struggle just to fill seats,merit aid can be an important revenue-builder because many recipients still pay enough tuition dollars over and above the scholarship amount to keep the institution running.,3.,The chief purpose of rankings-conscious colleges in offering merit aid is to _.,A)improve teaching quality,B)boost their enrollments,C)attract good students,D)increase their revenues,But for rankings-conscious schools in between,merit aid has served primarily as a tool to,recruit top students,and to improve their academic profiles.“Theyre trying to buy students,”says Skidmore College economist Sandy Baum.,4.,Monica,Inzer,dean of admission and financial aid at Hamilton,believes _.,A)it doesnt pay to spend$1 million a year to,raise its ranking,B)it gives students motivation to award academic achievements,C)its illogical to use so much money on only 4%of its students,D)its not right to give aid to those who can afford the tuition,Studies show merit aid also,tends to benefit,disproportionately(,不成比例地,),students who could afford to enroll without it.,“As we,look to the future,we see,a more pressing need,to invest in need-based aid,”says Monica,Inzer,dean of admission and financial aid at Hamilton,which has offered merit scholarships for 10 years.During that time,it rose in,US News&World Reports,ranking of the best liberal arts colleges,from 25 to 17.,Merit aid,which benefited about 75 students a year,or about 4%of its student body,at a cost of about$1 million a year,“served us well,”,Inzer,says,but,“,to be,discounting,the price for families that dont need financial aid doesnt feel right any more.”,5.,In recent years,merit-based aid has increased much faster than need-based aid due to _.,A)more government funding to colleges,B)fierce competition among institutions,C)the increasing number of top students,D)schools improved financial situations,Need-based aid remains by far the largest share of all student aid,which includes state,federal and institutional,grants(,助学金,),.But merit aid,offered primarily by schools and states,is growing faster,both overall and at the institutional level.,Between 1995-96 and 2003-04,institutional merit aid alone increased 212%,compared with 47%for need-based grants.,At least 15 states also offer merit aid,typically,in a bid to,enroll top students in the states public institutions.,bid,n.C,努力，尝试，,an attempt to achieve or obtain something:,Eg,.The government has reduced the cost of borrowing,in a bid to,get the economy moving again.,6.,What is the attitude of many private colleges toward merit aid,according to David Laird?,A)They would like to see it reduced.,B)They regard it as a necessary evil.,C)They think it does more harm than good.,D