68. Why dose the drop out rate of college studenes seem to go up?

　 A. Young people are disappointed with the conventional way of teaching at college.

　 B. Many young people are required to join the army.

　 C. Young people have little motivation in pursuing a higher education.

　 D. Young people don’t like the intense competition for administration to graduate school

67. The underlined part refers to __________.

A. high school graduates who are’t suitable for the college education.

　 B. college graduates who are selling shoes and driving taxis

　 C. college graduates who are’t any better for their higher education

　 D. high school graduates who failed to be admitted to college

66. What does the auther believe according to the passage?

　 A. People used to question the value of college education.

　 B. People used to have full confidence in higher education.

　 C. All high school graduates went to college.

　 D. Very few high school graduates chose to go to college.

65. The most probable conclusion we can draw after reading the passage is ______.

A. the last incident was sad enough to make Mom weep

B. the child’s experience reminded Mom of that of her own

C. Mom could solve any problem except the one in the last paragraph

D. in fact Mom suffered more in the process of the child’s growth

C

The reason for going to college has been accepted without question for more than a generation. All high school graduates ought to go, says conventional wisdom and statustical evidence, because college will help them earn more money, become “better” people, and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who don’t go.

But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending, those who don’t fit the pattern are becoming more numerous,and more obvious. college graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students interfere with each pther’s experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the intense competition for admission to graduate school. Others find no stimulation in their studies, and drop out - often encouraged by college administrators.

Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves-they are spoiled and they are expecting too much. But that’s a criticize of the students as a whole,and doesn’t explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the world, and they are partly right. We’ve been told that young people have to go to college because our economy can’t absorb an army of untrained eight-year-old either.

Some adventuresome educators and campus watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, the proper , the only place for every young person after the completion of high school. We may have been looking at all those surveys and statistics upside down, it seems, and through the rosy glow of our own remembered college experiences. Perhaps college doesn’t make people intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, or quick to learn things-maybe it’s just the other way around, and intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, or quick–learning people are merely the ones who have been attravted to college in the first place, And perhaps all those successful college graduates would have been successful whether they had gone to college or not. This is heresy (异端邪说)to those of us who have　 been brought up to believe that if a little schooling is good, more has to be much better, But contray evidence is beginning to gradually increase in amount.

64. When the child looked down at the kids, they were standing with their mouths open because ______.

A. they felt sorry for what they had done before

B. they were afraid the author might fall off and get hurt

C. they wanted to see what the author would do on the bars

D. they were astonished to find the author’s progress

63. What does the sentence “I saw her ‘we’ll see about that 　look” imply?

A. Mom believed every aim could be achieved if you stuck to it.

B. The race across monkey bars was not difficult enough for a child to give up.

C. Mom was determined to prove she herself was better than the teacher.

D. What the child had said brought Mom great attraction and curiosity.

62. From the passage, we know monkey bars can help a child train ______.

A. the skill to throw and catch things

B. the speed of one’s hand movement

C. the strength and skill to hang and sway

D. the bodily skill to rotate round a bar

61. Which of the following expressions can be used most suitably to describe Mom’s attitude when she made the child to peel potatoes?

A. Cruel.　　　　　　 B. Serious.　　　　　　 C. Strict.　　 D. Cold.

60. What would be the best title for this passage?

A. Insects use plants as a telephone.

B. insects live in harmony with each other

C. No species can live alone.

D. Plants and animals have an effect on each other.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　B

Even before my father left us, my mother had to go back to work to support our family. Once I came out of the kitchen, complaining, “Mom, I can’t peel potatoes. I have only one hand.”Mom never looked up from sewing.“You get yourself into that kitchen and peel those potatoes,” she told me.“And don’t ever use that as an excuse for anything again!”

In the second grade, our teacher lined up my class on the playground and had each of us race across the monkey bars, swinging from one high steel rod to the next. When it was my turn, I shook my head. Some kids behind me laughed, and I went home crying.

That night I told Mom about it. She hugged me, and I saw her “we”ll see about that look.The next afternoon, she took me back to school. At the deserted playground, Mom looked carefully at the bars.“Now, pull up with your right arm,” she advised. She stood by as I struggled to lift myself with my right hand until I could hook the bar with my other elbow. Day after day we practiced, and she praised me for every rung I reached. I’ll never forget the next time, crossing the rungs, I looked down at the kids who were standing with their mouths open.

One night, after a dance at my new junior high, I lay in bed sobbing. I could hear Mom come into my room. “Mom,” I said, weeping, “none of the boys would dance with me.”

For a long time, I didn’t hear anything. Then she said, “Oh, honey, someday you’ll be beating those boys off with a bat.” Her voice was faint and cracking. I peeked out from my covers to see tears running down her cheeks. Then I knew how much she suffered on my behalf. She had never let me see her tears.

59. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A. Other animals may communicate in the same way.

B. There will be further reseach into this phenomenon.

C. Part of the study is a PhD project.

D. The Free Competition of NWO Earth and Life Sciences has the patent for these results.