广东普高专升本英语（阅读理解）模拟试卷3
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Many private institutions of higher education around the country are in danger. Not all will be saved, and perhaps not all deserve to be saved. There are low-quality schools just as there are low-quality business. We have no obligation to save them simply because they exist.
But many thriving institutions that deserve to continue are threatened. They are doing a fine job educationally, but they are caught in a financial squeeze, with no way to reduce rising costs or increase revenues significantly. Raising tuition doesn’t bring in more revenue, for each time tuition goes up, the enrollment goes down, or the amount that must be given away in student aid goes up. Schools are bad businesses, whether public or private, not usually because of mismanagement but because of the nature of the enterprise. They lose money on every customer, and they can go bankrupt either from too few students or too many students. Even a very good college is a very bad business.
It is such colleges, thriving but threatened, I worry about. Low enrollment is not their chief problem. Even with full enrollments, they may go under. Efforts to save them, and preferably to keep them private, are a national necessity. There is no basis for arguing that private schools are inherently better than public schools. Examples to the contrary abound. Anyone can name state universities and colleges that rank as the finest in the nation and the world. It is now inevitable that public institutions will be dominant, and therefore diversity is a national necessity. Diversity in the way we support schools tends to give us a healthy diversity in the forms of education. In an imperfect society, uniformity of education throughout the nation could be dangerous. In an imperfect society, diversity is a positive good. Enthusiastic supporters of public higher education know the importance of sustaining private higher education.
1.According to the author’s opinion, schools are bad businesses because of________.(D)
A. mismanagement
B. too few students
C. financial squeeze
D. their characteristics
解析：根据第二段倒数第三句“Schools are bad businesses, whether public or private, not usually because of mismanagement but because of the nature of the enterprise．”可知，学校不是好的企业的原因在于其本质特征。D项中的characteristics是nature的同义替换。故选D。
2.The author used the phrase \\(A)
A. get into difficulties
B. have bad influences
C. have little money
D. bring in more money
解析：根据第二段第三句“Raising tuition doesn’t bring in more revenue…the enrollment goes down，or the amount that must be given away in student aid goes up．”可知，该句与画线词所在句形成鲜明的对比，这两句中的enrollment是相对应的，所以go under应该也与上文的problem相对应。由此可推知，go under是指have problems(有问题)或者get into difficulties(陷入困境中)。故选A。
3.We can reasonably conclude from this passage that the author made an appeal to the public in order to support________.(B)
A. public institution
B. private schools
C. uniformity of education
D. decrease of schools
解析：作者在文章一开头就指出“许多私立高等学校都处于危险之中”，引起读者的关注，在结尾又指出支持公立高等教育的人们认识到了私立高等教育的重要性。由此可推知，作者是在呼吁人们支持私立学校。故选B。
4.Which of the following is NOT mentioned about private schools?(D)
A. High-quality private schools deserve to be saved.
B. If the tuition of the private schools is raised, the enrollment goes down.
C. There are many
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