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US universities are among the best in the world. Since World War Ⅱ, American scientists --- mostly working in universties or colleges --- have won more than half of all Nobel Prizes in physics and medicine. Foreign students rush to the United States by the tens of thousands. Last year they earned more than one quarter of the doctoral degrees awarded in the country. Yet while American universities produce the great research and great graduate program, they sometimes pay little attention to the task that lies at their very core: the teaching of undergraduate students.
With the increase in fees, educators feel obliged to improve undergraduate teaching. In speeches and interviews the nation’s higher educators have rediscovered teaching. Robert Rosenzweig, president of the Association of American Universities,  said,  “Our organization was never very concerned about teaching. In the last 18 months, we have spent more time on undergraduate education than on any other subject.”
Despite such promising efforts, no one doubts that research still outranks teaching at some of the leading universities, not least because it is a surer and faster way to earn status. Some people don’t think it has to be that way. They argue that the reward system for college faculty can be changed, so that professors will be encouraged to devote more time and effort to teaching. They say that they are beginning to believe that the first ten years of the 21st century may come to be remembered as the decade of the undergraduate.
That would bring it full circle. For more than two centuries after the founding of Harvard College in 1636, the instruction of undergraduate students was an essential condition of American higher education.
【小題1】According to the passage, at some of the leading American universities ________.

A．research is declining in importance	B．teaching now ranks above research
C．teaching is a sure way to gain position	D．research still ranks above teaching

【小題2】It is implied in the passage that about 200 years ago undergraduate instruction ________.

A．began to change all of a sudden

B．was already threatened by research work

C．was the central part of higher education

D．began to be neglected in most universities

【小題3】What would be the best title for the passage?

A．University education in the US	B．University education challenged
C．Teaching and research in universities	D．Undergraduate teaching rediscovered

Answer 1

【小題1】D
【小題2】C
【小題3】D

解析試題分析：這篇文章介紹了美國的知名大學更重視研究而不是教學�，F(xiàn)在更多的精力應該放在大學生的教育方面，因為這是高等教育的核心。
【小題1】推理題：從第一段的句子：they sometimes pay little attention to the task that lies at their very core: the teaching of undergraduate students.可知美國的知名大學更重視研究而不是教學。選D
【小題2】細節(jié)題：從最后一段的句子：For more than two centuries after the founding of Harvard College in 1636, the instruction of undergraduate students was an essential condition of American higher education.可知兩百年前，大學生的教育問題是高等教育的核心問題，選C
【小題3】主旨題：從文章的內(nèi)容和第二段的句子：In speeches and interviews the nation’s higher educators have rediscovered teaching.可知答案是D
考點：考查教育類短文
點評：這篇文章介紹了美國的知名大學更重視研究而不是教學。現(xiàn)在更多的精力應該放在大學生的教育方面，因為這是高等教育的核心。做這篇閱讀理解的時候，可以通過略讀主題句，我們可以分別在每個段落的開頭位置找到每個段落的主題句，由此可以明確這篇文章的主旨，以及了解每個段落的段落大意，再做題就容易多了。