问答题A number of colleges and universities have announced steeptuition increases for next year--much steeper than the current, verylow, rate of inflation. They say the increases are needed because ofa loss in value of university endowments heavily investing

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A number of colleges and universities have announced steeptuition increases for next year--much steeper than the current, verylow, rate of inflation. They say the increases are needed because ofa loss in value of university endowments heavily investing in common    1.______stock. I am skeptical. A business firm chooses the price thatmaximizes its net revenues, irrespective fluctuations in income; and    2.______increasingly the outlook of universities in the United States isindistinguishable from those of business firms. The rise in tuitions    3.______may reflect the fact that economic uncertainty increases the demand for   4.______education. The biggest cost of being in the school is foregoing       5.______income from a job (this is primarily a factor in graduate andprofessional-school tuition) ; the poor one’s job prospects, the      6.______more sense it makes to reallocate time from the job market to education,in order to make oneself more marketable.  The ways which universities make themselves attractive to        7.______students include soft majors, student evaluations of teachers, givingstudents a governance role, and eliminate required courses.         8.______Sky-high tuitions have caused universities to regard their students ascustomers. Just as business firms sometimes collude to shorten       9.______the rigors of competition, universities collude to minimize the cost tothem of the athletes whom they recruit in order to stimulate alumnidonations, so the best athletes now often bypass higher education in order toobtain salaries earlier from professional teams. And until they were stoppedby the antitrust authorities, the Ivy League schools colluded to limitcompetition for the best students, by agreeing not to award scholarshipson the basis of merit rather than purely of need--just like businessfirms agreeing not to give discounts on their best customer.        10.______
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● The actual configuration of a PERT/CPM network _____ the amount of resources that can be devoted to the project.

A Increases.

B Is not affected by

C Does not require

D Is heavily dependent upon

E Is the only means of determining


正确答案:D

第2题:

three of the following universities have large endowments from wealthy benefactors. which is the exception?

A. the State University of New York.

B. Yale University.

C. Princeton University.

D. Harvard University.


参考答案:A

第3题:

The initial cost of a product and the product's operation and maintenance costs _____ .

A . increases perceived value when balanced.

B . are incidental to each other because initial costs are "sunk"

C . decreases design costs as operation periods increase

D . provides perceived function value and product social dysfunction

E . are integrally related with each other because initial costs are "sunk".


正确答案:A

第4题:

Loran-C uses the multiple pulse system because ______.

A.Less signal energy is necessary for receiver operation

B.More signal energy is available at the receiver

C.It significantly increases the peak power

D.It increases the signal capacity


正确答案:B

第5题:

Passage Four

Students all over the world have to work for their education. A college education in the United States is

expensive. The costs are so high that most families begin to save for their children's education when their children are babies. Even so, many young people cannot afford to pay the expenses of full-time college work. They do not have enough money to pay for school costs. Tuition for attending the university, books for classes, and living expenses are high. There are other expenses such as chemistry and biology lab fees and special student activity fees for such things as parking permits and football tic, kets. The cost of college education increases every year. However, classrooms are still crowded with students. Some American students have scholarships or other support, but many do not.

Students from other countries have money problems to overcome, too. Because students in most international programs need to have a sponsor, they work hard to earn scholarships or special loans. International students understand the value of going to school in another country. They also know that it is difficult. Yet just as Americans choose to attend American universities in spite of the difficulty, however, it is usually possible for students from abroad to work on university campuses to pay for some of the costs of their education. Some people believe that students value their education more if they work for it.

48. Tuition for attending the university in the United States is ______.

A. inexpensive

B. high

C. free from charge

D. costless


正确答案:B
本题属细节题。文章第五句已明确点明。

第6题:

A major problem with a fixed exchange rate system is that when countries run foreign trade deficits, ______.

A.there is no self-correcting mechanism

B.currency values become unstable

C.the value of the reserve currency declines

D.world inflation increases


正确答案:A
解析:句意:固定汇率制一个重大弊病在于一国对外贸易出现赤字时,不能自我调节。fixed exchange rate system固定汇率制。

第7题:

The ______ of ice sold increases sharply in the summer months.

A. account

B. amount

C. count

D. number


参考答案:B

第8题:

57 The initial cost of a product and the product's operation and maintenance costs _____ .

A. increases perceived value when balanced.

B. are incidental to each other because initial costs are "sunk"

C. decreases design costs as operation periods increase

D. provides perceived function value and product social dysfunction

E. are integrally related with each other because initial costs are "sunk"


正确答案:A

第9题:

American university students are usually under pressure because____.

A.their academic performance will affect their future Careers

B.they are heavily involved in student affairs

C.they have to observe university discipline

D.they want to run for positions of authority


正确答案:A
见文章第二自然段第一句。

第10题:

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According to the passage,"docked"(Line 3,Para.4)means

A.canceled
B.restructured
C.deducted
D.distributed

答案:C
解析:
词汇题。根据题干提示信息定位到第四段第三行。

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