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2013年月大学英语六级真题 tory courses. The newer trend is to start recruiting poor and non-white students as early as the seventh grade, using innovative tools to identify kids with sophisticated verbal skills. Such pro grams can be expensive, of course, but cheap compared with the millions already invested in scholarships and grants for kids who have little chance to graduate without special support. With effort and money, the graduation gap can be closed. Washington and Lee is a small, selective school in Lexington, Va. Its student body is less than 5% black and less than 2% Latino. While the school usually graduated about 90% of its whites, the graduation rate of its blacks and Latinos had dipped to 63% by 2007. We went through a dramatic shift, says Dawn Watkins, the vice president for student affairs. The school aggressively pushed?mentoring?(辅导) of minorities by other students and partnering with parents at a special pre-enrollment session. The school had its first-ever black homecoming. Last spring the school graduated the same proportion of minorities as it did whites. If the United States wants to keep up in the global economic race, it will have to pay systematic attention to graduating minorities, not just enrolling them. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 1.? ?What is the authors main concern about American higher education? A)??The small proportion of minority students. B)??The low graduation rates of minority students. C)??The growing conflicts among ethnic groups. D)??The poor academic performance of students. 2.? ?What was the pride of President Barry Mills of Bowdoin College? A) The prestige of its liberal arts programs. B)??Its ranking among universities in Maine. C)??The high graduation rates of its students. D) Its increased enrollment of minority students. 3.? ?What is the risk facing America? A) Its schools will be overwhelmed by the growing number of illegal immigrants. B)??The rising generation will be less well educated than the previous one. C)??More poor and non-wh