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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.
【小题1】According to the passage, at some of the leading American universities .A．research is declining in importanceB．teaching now ranks above researchC．teaching is a sure way to gain positionD．research still ranks above teaching【小题2】It is implied in the passage that about 200 years ago undergraduate instruction .A．began to change all of a suddenB．was already threatened by research workC．was the central part of higher educationD．began to be neglected in most universities【小题3】What would be the best title for the passage?A．University education in the USB．University education challengedC．Teaching and research in universitiesD．Undergraduate teaching rediscoveredD
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(答案→)D
解析：这篇文章介绍了美国的知名大学更重视研究而不是教学。现在更多的精力应该放在大学生的教育方面，因为这是高等教育的核心。
【小题1】推理题：从第一段的句子：they sometimes pay little attention to the task that lies at their very core: the teaching of undergraduate students.可知美国的知名大学更重视研究而不是教学。选D
【小题2】细节题：从最后一段的句子：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.可知两百年前，大学生的教育问题是高等教育的核心问题，选C
【小题3】主旨题：从文章的内容和第二段的句子：In speeches and interviews the nation’s higher educators have rediscovered teaching.可知答案是D
