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2017-03-13

Questions  are based on the following passage.
Nine of the ten campuses of the University of California--led by Berkeley--once again made it into an annual ranking of the world's leading universities. All's well in Californian higher education, it might seem.
But that is not what Pat Brown or Clark Kerr would say, were they alive today. They were, respectively, governor of the state and president of the University of California in 1960, when California adopted a "master plan" that became an international model. Their aim was not only to have excellent public universities, but to give the state's population nearly universal and free access to them. Some pupils would enter so-called community colleges for a two-year vocational programme, others one of the ( now 23 ) campuses of the California State University, and the best might go to a UC campus.
In order to assure access for all, tuition charges were banned--only "fees" for some costs other than education were allowed. Most funding was to come from taxpayers. The premise was that higher education was a public good for the state, which was nursing its own future entrepreneurs and taxpayers. As Mr. Kerr put it, the universities were "bait (诱饵) to be hung in front of industry, with drawing power greater than low taxes or cheap labour".
That consensus has been overturned. In 1990, the state paid 78% of the cost of educating each student.
That ratio dropped to 47% last year, and will fall even more during the current academic year, after the latest round of budget cuts, overseen by Jerry Brown, the current governor and son of Pat Brown. In some ways, California has now inverted the priorities of the older Brown's era. Spending on prisons passed spending on universities in around 2004.
This has led to concerns that the public universities might lose their excellence. It takes money to attract the best professors, and the best students follow them. An alternative to worse public universities, however, is quasi-privatized (半私有化) ones. That seems to be the route taken in California.
Thus students will this year, for the first time, pay more for tuition than the state gives in funding. This follows years of tuition fee increases far steeper than the average at American public universities. A place at a UC campus can easily now cost $13,000, or $ 31,000 including housing given California's high costs.
To raise other revenues, the various campuses also admit ever more out-of-state students ( who pay three times more) and target rich graduates for more donations. Led by the business and law schools, they behave increasingly like private universities, in other words. This strategy retains pockets of excellence. But it also runs counter to the philosophy of the master plan, by pricing ever more Californian families out of a place. The state now ranks 41st in the number of college degrees awarded for every 100 of its high school graduates.
Pat Brown and Clark Kerr attempted to set up excellent public universities, as well as _________.

A.building an international model of tmiversities around the world
B.competing with the so-called community colleges in the state
C.offering common and free access to universities to the state's population
D.providing a two-year vocational programme for the state's population

参考答案

C

答案解析

全文翻译
在年度世界优秀大学的排名中,加州大学的十个分校中有九个都榜上有名,以伯克利分校为首。这样看来,加州的高等教育状况似乎一切良好。
但是,如果帕特·布朗或者克拉克·科尔活到现在的话,他们可不会这么说。他们分别是1960年加州的州长和加州大学的主席,当时加州采用了一个“最重要规划”,而后这一规划成为全世界的典范。(51)他们的目标不仅仅是打造优秀的公立大学,更是要使全州的人能够近乎普遍及免费地上这些大学。一些学生可以进入所谓的社区大学接受为期两年的专业培训,其他的学生可以进入23所加州州立大学中的一所,其中最优秀的可以进入加州大学。
为了确保所有人都能进入大学,学校禁止收学费——只允许收取学费以外的“杂费”。大部分资金来自纳税人。其设想认为高等教育是全州的公共福利,其目的是培养自己未来的企业家和纳税人。(52)就像科尔先生说的那样,大学是“悬在工业前的诱饵,具有比低税收或廉价劳动力更大的吸引力”。
这个共识已经被推翻了。1990年,加州支付给每个学生78%的教育费用。去年,这个比例已经降至47%,而且在由现任州长、帕特·布朗的儿子杰里·布朗监督下的最新一轮预算削减之后,这个比例在本学年还会降低更多。在一些方面,加州现在已经颠倒了老布朗时代的工作重点。用于监狱的花费大约在2004年超过了用于大学的花费。
(53)这引起了关于公立大学可能会不再如此优秀的担心。吸引优秀的教授需要花钱,而出色的学生们都是跟随着这些教授的。而另一种使公立大学变差的方式就是使其半私有化。加州好像就打算走这条路。
因此,今年的学生首次支付了比加州政府提供的资金补助还要多的学费。这就使得加州学费的涨幅连年远超美国公立大学学费的平均涨幅。现在在加州大学上学动辄就要花费13000美元,如果包含住宿费用,再加上加州的高消费水平,则将达到31000美元。
(54)为了提高其他收入,加州的多所大学也录取了更多的本州以外的学生(需要支付3倍以上的学费),而且为了获取更多的赞助费,这些大学把目标瞄向了富裕的校友。换句话说,(55)它们的表现越来越向私立大学靠拢,其中以商学院和法学院尤为突出。这项政策留住了精英们的钱包。但它也由于昂贵的费用使得更多的本地家庭无法获得教育,从而违背了当初的总体规划理念。如今,在每百名本州高中毕业生获得大学学位的人数排名中,加州排名第41位。
详解详析
根据题干中的Pat Brown and Clark Kerr定位到原文第二段,再根据excellent public universities进一步定位到该段第三句。
事实细节题。本题考查帕特·布朗和克拉克·科尔的办学理念。定位句提到了他们的两个
目标:一是打造优秀的公立大学;二是要使全州的人能够近乎普遍及免费地上这些大学。由此可知,C“使全州的人能够普遍及免费地上这些大学”为本题答案。A“打造大学的世界典范”、B“同州内所谓的社区大学竞争”和D“为全州的人提供两年的专业培训”在原文未提及,均可排除。

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