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2017年YY在线同等学力英语
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For years, studies have
found that first-generation college
students-
those who do not have a parent with a college
degree-
lag vi. 滞后；缓缓而行；蹒跚other students on a
range of
education achievement factors. Their
grades are lower and their
dropout rates are
higher. But since such students are most likely
to advance economically if they succeed in
higher education,
colleges and universities
have pushed for decades to recruit more
of
them. This has created “a paradox一个悖论” in that
recruiting
first- generation students, but
then watching many of them fail,
means that
higher education has “continued to reproduce and
widen, rather than close” an achievement gap
based on social
class, according to the
depressing beginning of a paper
forthcomingadj. 即将来临的in the journal
Psychological
Science.
But the
article is actually quite optimistic, as it
outlinesvt.概述；
略述 a potential可能性solution to
this problem, suggesting that
an approach
(which involves a one-hour, next-to-no-cost
program)
can close 63 percent of the
achievement gap (measured by such
factors as
grades) between first-generation and other
students.
The authors of the paper are
from different universities, and their
findings are based on a study involving 147
students (who
completed the project) at an
unnamed private university. First
generation
was defined as not having a parent with a four-
year
college of the first-generation
students(59.1 percent)
were recipients收件人of
Pell Grants, a federal grant for
undergraduates with financial need, while this
was true only for
8.6 percent of the students
with at least one parent with a
four-year
degree.
Their thesis- that a relatively modest
intervention could have a
big impact- was
based on the view that first-generation students
may be most lacking not in potential but in
practical knowledge
about how to deal with the
issues that face most college students.
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They cite past research
by several authors to show that this is the
gap that must be narrowed to close the
achievement gap.
Many first- generation
students “struggle to navigate the
middle-
class culture of higher education, learn the
‘rules of the
game,’ and take advantage of
college resources,” they write. And
this
becomes more of a problem when collages don’t talk
about
the class advantage and disadvantages of
different groups of
students. Because US
colleges and universities seldom
acknowledge
how social class can affect students ’educational
experience, many first-generation students
lack sight about why
they are struggling and
do notunderstand how students’ like
them can
improve.
26. Recruiting
招聘；招募
more
first- generation students has_______
[A]
reduced their dropout rates
[B] narrowed the
achievement成绩 gap差距
[C] missed its original
原创的purpose
[D] depressed 使人沮丧college students
27. The author of the research article
are optimistic
乐观的
because_______
[A]
the problem is solvable
[B] their approach is
costless
[C] the recruiting rate has increased
[D] their finding appeal to students
28. The study suggests that most first-
generation students______
[A] study at private
universities
[B] are from single-parent
families
[C] are in need of financial support
[D] have failed their collage
29. The
author of the paper believe that first-generation
students_______
[A] are actually indifferent
to the achievement gap
[B] can have a
potential influence on other students
[C] may
lack opportunities to apply for research projects
[D] are inexperienced in handling their issues
at college
30. We may infer from the last
paragraph that_______
[A] universities often
reject the culture of the middle-class
[B]
students are usually to blame for their lack of
resources
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[C]
social class greatly helps enrich educational
experiences
[D]colleges are partly responsible
for the problem in question
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