Part III Reading Comprehension.(40 minutes)
Section C
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
57、根据下列材料，请回答57-66题：
Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
There was a time when college was a place where young adults could expand their horizons. But as tuitions increase, student debt mounts and job prospects for recent graduates remain uncertain, today, students and parents say college should prepare students for a good job.
87.9% of freshmen this year say a very important reason for going to college is ' to be able to get a better job," according to an annual survey by UCLA's Cooperative institutional Research Program. And parents are more likely to strongly agree that vocational school--or no college at al-provides a better pathway to a good job than does a liberal arts education, says a survey by Inside Higher Ed, a trade publication.
The number of schools awarding more than hag of their bachelor's degrees in liberal-arts disciplines, such as history, literature and philosophy, has decreased, from 212 in 1990 to 130 last year, research by Vicki Baker, a professor Albion College in Michigan, shows.
Meanwhile, governors of Texas, Florida, Wisconsin and, most recently, North Carolina, argue that public universities should focus on majors, especially in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math that will meet their state's workforce needs. Even President Obama has made jobs central to his higher-education agenda.
Supporters of the liberal arts say criticisms are based on outdated stereotypes. Many liberal arts colleges, including Shimer, have increased opportunities for internships (实习..North Carolina's Davidson College will start a program this summer that will connect graduating seniors with paid fellowships at non-profits. Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N. C., posts data so students can see where graduates with their major shave landed jobs--including art history majors at Sotheby's Deloitte Consulting and Kate Spade.
On the other hand, more than 35 business schools last month met to talk about how to incorporate; the liberal arts into their courses. "There's a sense that business education has become too narrow and isn't preparing graduates adequately--for career success, certainly--but also more broadly for lives as engaged citizens," says Judith Samuelson of the non-profit Aspen Institute's Business and Society program which organized the meeting.
What do we learn about college from the first paragraph?
A.It can help young adults broaden their horizons.
B.People has changed their requirement of it.
C.It cannot prepare graduates for a good job now.
D.People cannot afford its mounting tuitions.
58、 What does the survey by Inside Higher Ed reveal?
A.The freshmen of college dropped 87.9% this year.
B.All people go to college for getting a better job.
C.Parents prefer vocational school to college now.
D.Liberal arts education is more popular now.
59、 According to the research by Vicki Baker,
A.more than haft of colleges award bachelor's degrees in liberal-arts disciplines
B.the number of liberal-arts disciplines decreased from 212 in 1990 to 130 last year
C.colleges have decreased the proportion of bachelor's degrees in liberal-a~ disciplines
D.colleges have decreased the number of liberal-arts courses by more than half
60、 Some state governors argue that colleges should
A.pay more attention to job-oriented majors
B.increase students' opportunities for internships
C.make graduates see where they can land jobs with their majors
D.help graduating seniors find internships at non-profits
61、 Why do some business schools want to incorporate the liberal arts into their courses?
A.Their education cannot guarantee a successful career to graduates.
B.Their education cannot prepare graduates adequately for future lives.
C.Their education is too narrow to prepare graduates as engaged citizens.
D.Their education is too broad to provide graduates with career success.
62、根据下列材料，请回答62-71题：
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
Recently the Barbican museum in London held an exhibition called the Rain Room. During the time this exhibition was open, my Twitter stream was filled with photos of people standing in the Rain Room, accompanied by the caption(标题) “Rain Room @ The Barbican!” and a location attachment to prove that they were indeed in the Rain Room.
This got me thinking. What were people actually saying by Tweeting about their visit? I think all they were doing was meeting the obligation that we have to share. Not sharing in the sense of treasuring a moment with people close to us, but sharing in the sense of "notify the world that I am doing a thing". It's not sharing; it's showing off. When we log in to Facebook or Twitter we see an infinitely updating tream of people enjoying themselves. It's not real life, because people only post about the good things whereas all the dull or deep stuff doesn't get mentioned. But despite this obvious fact, it subconsciously makes us feel like everyone is having a better time than us.
This is the curse of our age. We walk around with the tools to capture extensive data about our surroundings and transmit them in real-time to every acquaintance we've made. We end "up with adimin is hed perception of reality because we're more concerned about choosing a good Instagram filter for our meal than how it tastes.
I don't that that it's inherently wrong to want to keep the world updated about what you're doing. But when you go through life robotically posting about everything you do, you're not a human being. You're just a prism(棱镜) that takes bits of light and sound and channels them into the Cloud.
The key thing to remember is that you are not enriching your experiences by sharing them online; you're detracting (转移) from them because all your efforts are focused on making them look attractive too they people. Once you stop seeing things through the eyes of the people following you on Twitter or Facebook or instagram, you can make your experiences significant, because you were there and you saw the sights and smelled the smells and heard the sounds, not because, you snapped a photo of it through a half-inch camera lens.
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