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2017年6月英语六级阅读真题及答案第1套选词填空

AfterbecomingpresidentofPurdueUniversityin2013,MitchDanielsaskedthefacultytoprovethattheirstudentshaveactuallyachievedoneofhighereducation’smostimportantgoals: criticalthinkingskills.Twoyearsbefore,anationwidestudyofcollegegraduateshadshownthatmorethanathird had made no 26 gainsinsuchmentalabilities

Purduenowhasapilottesttoassessstudentscriticalthinkingskills.YetlikemanycollegeteachersaroundtheU.S.,thefacultyremain 29 thattheirworkaseducatorscanbemeasuredbylearning30_suchasagraduatesabilityto

Purduenowhasapilottesttoassessstudentscriticalthinkingskills.Yetlikemanycollege

teachersaroundtheU.S.,thefacultyremain 29 thattheirworkaseducatorscanbe

measured

by

learning

30

_

suchasagraduatesabilitytoinvestigateandreason.However,theprofessorsneednotworrysomuch.Theresultsofarecentexperiment

showed

that

professors

can

use

31metricstomeasurehowwellstudentsdointhreekeyareas:criticalthinking,writtencommunication,andquantitativeliteracy.

Despitethesuccessoftheexperiment,theactualresultsareworrisome,andmostly32earlierstudies.Theorganizersoftheexperimentconcludedthatfarfewerstudentswereachievinghighlevelsoncriticalthinkingthantheyweredoingforwrittencommunicationorquantitativeliteracy.Andthatconclusionisbasedonlyonstudentsnearinggraduation.

American

universities,

despite

their

global

33 forexcellenceinteaching,haveonly

beguntodemonstratewhattheycanproduceinreal-worldlearning. Knowledge-based degrees are still important, but employers are

stillimportant,butemployersare 34 advancedthinkingskillsfromcollegegraduates.Iftheintellectualworthofacollegedegreecanbe 35 measured,morepeoplewillseekhighereducation—andcomeoutbetterthinkers.

A.accurately

G.monopolized

M.signify

B.confirm

H.outcome

N.s