2008年6月大学英语六级考试A卷（真题+答案）7［1］灰姑娘动画片
Passage Two
Questions 57 to 61 are bad on the following passage.
In the college—admissions wars， we parents are the true fights. We are pushing our kids to get good grades， take SAT preparatory cours and build resumes so they can get into the college of our first choice. I’ve twice been to the wars, and as I survey the battlefield， something different is happening。 We e our kids’ college background as e prize demonstrating how well we’ve raid them。 But we can’t acknowledge that our obssion(痴迷） is more about us than them. So we've contrived various justifications that turn out to be half—truths， prejudices or myths。 It actually doesn’t matter much whether Aaron and Nicole go to Stanford。
We have a full-blown prestige panic； we worry that there won't be enough prizes to go around。 Fearful parents urge their children to apply to more schools than ever. Underlying
the hysteria（歇斯底里) is the belief that scarce elite degrees must be highly valuable。 Their graduates must enjoy more success becau they get a better education and develop better contacts。 All that is plausible——and mostly wrong。 We haven't found any convincing evidence that lectivity or prestige matters. Selective schools don’t systematically employ better instructional approaches than less lective schools. On two measures-—professors’ feedback and the number of essay exams——lective schools do slightly wor.
By some studies, lective schools do enhance their graduates’ lifetime earnings。 The gain is reckoned at 2-4% for every 100-poinnt increa in a school’s average SAT scores。 But even this advantage is probably a statistical fluke（偶然）。 A well—known study examined students who got into highly lective schools and then went elwhere. They earned just as much as graduates from higher-status schools。
Kids count more than their colleges.Getting into yale may signify intellgence,talent and
Ambition. But it’s not the only indicator a
and,paradoxically,its significance is declining。The reason：so many similar people go elwhere.Getting into college is not life only competiton.Old-boy networks are breaking down.princeton economist Alan Krueger studied admissions to one top Ph。D。program。High scores on the GRE helpd explain who got in；degrees of prestigious universities didn’t。
So，parents，lighten up.the stakes have been vastly exaggerated.up to a point,we can rationalize our pushiness.America is a competitive society;our kids need to adjust to that。but too much pushiness can be destructive。the very ambition we impo on our children may get some into Harvard but may also t them up for disappointment。one study found that，other things being equal，graduates of highly lective schools experienced more job dissatisfaction.They may have been so conditioned to deing on top that anything less disappoints。clustered
chown注意 此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
57.Why do the author say that parengs are the true fighters in the college-admissions
wars？
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A。They have the final say in which university their children are to attend.
化妆B.They know best which universities are most suitable for their children.
C。they have to carry out intensive surveys of colleges before children make an application.
rookD。they care more about which college their children go to than the children themlves。
58。Why do parents urge their children to apply to more school than ever？
五月飞霜A。they want to increa their children chances of entering a prestigious college。
B。they hope their children can enter a university that offers attractive scholarships.
C.Their children eill have have a wider choice of which college to go to。
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D.Elite universities now enroll fewer syudent than they ud to.
59。What does the author mean by kids count more than their college(Line1，para.4？
A。Continuing education is more important to a person success。
B.A
person happiness should be valued more than their education.
C。Kids actual abilities are more importang than their college background.
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60.What does Krueger study tell us？
A。GETting into Ph.d.programs may be more competitive than getting into college.
B.Degrees of prestigious universities do not guarantee entry to graduate programs.
C。Graduates from prestigious universities do not care much about their GRE scores.
D。Connections built in prestigious universities may be sustained long after graduation.
61。One possible result of pushing children into elite universities is that______
A。they earb less than their peers from other institutions
B。they turn out to be less competitive in the job market
C.they experience more job dissatisfaction after graduation
D。they overemphasize their qualifications in job application
Part V Cloze
Directions： there are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A）,B）,C）, and D） on the right side of the paper。 You should choo the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre。
