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单选题
What does Erika Hall find in her experiment about a man with the last name Williams?

A．African Americans fare better than many other ethnic groups．
B．Black people's socioeconomic status in America remains low．
C．People's conception of a person has much to do with the way he or she is labeled．
D．One's professional standing and income are related to their educational background．

参考答案C

解析:
定位
由题干中的 experiment 和 Williams定位到文章第六段 : The "African-American" group
that he earned about $ 37,000 a year and had a two-year college degree．The "Black"
the other hand, put his salary at about $ 29,000, and guessed that he had only "some"
Estimated group, on college experience．Nearly three-quarters of the first group guessed that Mr．Williams worked at a managerial level, while only 38．5 percent of the second group thought so．
详解
推理判断题。从定位段落可以看出，同一个人被冠以“非洲裔美国人”和“黑人”的不同称谓时，会引发人们对他的经济社会地位和教育背景的不同联想，可见人们对一个人的看法与其称谓大有关联。故答案为C。
点睛
A．“非洲裔美国人比其他很多种族群体生活得都好”，该句是对原文的曲解，原文只是对同一族群的两个不同称谓进行比较，不涉及其他族群，可以排除；B．“黑人在美国的社会经济地位仍很低”，原文没有比较黑人与其他族群的社会经济地位，可以排除；D．“一个人的职业地位和收入与其教育背景相关”，文中未明确提及，可以排除。

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单选题
What is Dr．Du Bois's ideal?

A．All Americans enjoy equal rights．
B．A person is judged by their worth．
C．A new term is created to address African Americans．
D．All ethnic groups share the nation's continued progress．

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单选题
Questions are based on the following passage．
Across the board, American colleges and universities are not doing a very good job of preparing their students for the workplace or their post-graduation lives．This was made clear by the work of two sociologists, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa．In 2011 they released a landmark study titled"Academically Adrift," which documented the lack of intellectual growth experienced by many people enrolled in college．In particular, Arum and Roksa found, college students were not developing the critical thinking, analytic reasoning and other higher-level skills that are necessary to thrive in today's knowledge-based economy and to lead our nation in a time of complex challenges and dynamic change．
Arum and Roksa placed the blame for students' lack of learning on a watered-down college curriculum and lowered undergraduate work standards．Although going to college is supposed to be a Full-time job, students spent, on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing．Students who take more challenging classes and spend more time studying do learn more．But the priorities of many undergraduates are with extracurricular activities, playing sports, and partying and socializing．
Laura Hamilton, the author of a study on parents who pay for college, will argue in a forthcoming book that college administrations are overly concerned with the social and athletic activities of their students．In Paying for the Party, Hamilton describes what she calls the “arty pathway," which eases many students through college, helped-along by various clubs that send students into the party scene and a host of easier majors．By sanctioning this watered-down version of college, universities are"catering to the social and educational needs of wealthy students at the expense of others" who won't enjoy the financial backing or social connections of richer students once they graduate．
These students need to build skills and knowledge during college if they are to use their degrees as a stepping-stone to middle-class mobility．But more privileged students must not waste this opportunity either．As recent graduates can testify, the job market isn't kind to candidates who can't demonstrate genuine competence, along with a well-cultivated willingness to work hard．Nor is the global economy forgiving of an American workforce with increasingly weak literacy, math and science abilities．College graduates will still fare better than those with only a high school education, of course．But a university degree unaccompanied by a gain in knowledge or skills is an empty achievement indeed．For students who have been coasting through college, and for American universities that have been demanding less work, offering more attractions and charging higher tuition, the party may soon be over．
What is Arum and Roksa's finding about higher education in America?

A．It aims at stimulating the intellectual curiosity of college students．
B．It fails to prepare students to face the challenges of modern times．
C．It has experienced dramatic changes in recent years．
D．It has tried hard to satisfy students' various needs．

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单选题
What is responsible for the students' lack of higher-level skills?

A．The diluted college curriculum．
B．The boring classroom activities．
C．The absence of rigorous discipline．
D．The outdated educational approach．

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