考研英語題源閱讀材料150篇
(1): 重建美國夢機(jī)器
Rebuilding the American dream machine
重建美國夢機(jī)器
FOR America's colleges, January is a month of reckoning. Most applications for the next academic year beginning in the autumn have to be made by the end of December, so a university's popularity is put to an objective standard :how many people want to attend. One of the more unlikely offices to have been flooded with mail is that of the City University of New York (CUNY), a public college that lacks, among other things, a famous sports team, bucolic campuses and raucous parties (it doesn't even have dorms), and, until recently, academic credibility.
對美國的大學(xué)而言,一月是一個(gè)清算的月份。大多數(shù)要進(jìn)入將于秋季開學(xué)的下一學(xué)年學(xué)習(xí)的申請必須在12月底前完成,因此一所大學(xué)的聲望就有了客觀依據(jù) :申請人的多少。紐約城市大學(xué),一所公立學(xué)院,與其他學(xué)校相比,它沒有一支聲名顯赫的運(yùn)動隊(duì),沒有田園詩一般的校園,也沒有喧囂嘈雜的派對——甚至連宿舍都沒有,而且,直到最近也沒取得學(xué)術(shù)上的可信度,可就是這所大學(xué)的辦公室塞滿了學(xué)生們寄來的申請函,這簡直有些令人難以置信。
A primary draw at CUNY is a programme for particularly clever students, launched in 2001. Some 1,100 of the 60,000 students at CUNY's five top schools receive a rare thing in the costly world of American colleges :free education. Those accepted by CUNY's honours programme pay no tuition fees; instead they receive a stipend of $7,500 (to help with general expenses) and a laptop computer. Applications for early admissions into next year's programme are up 70%.
城市大學(xué)主要吸引人的地方在于它為從2001年開始為聰明過人的學(xué)生所設(shè)立的培養(yǎng)計(jì)劃。6萬名城市大學(xué)的五所頂尖學(xué)院學(xué)生中,約有1100人能得到“免費(fèi)教育”,這在花費(fèi)巨大的美國大學(xué)界可是一件稀罕事。被納入城市大學(xué)榮譽(yù)計(jì)劃的學(xué)生無需支付學(xué)費(fèi),相反,他們還獲得一份7500美元的定期生活津貼(用于補(bǔ)助日常開銷)以及一本筆記本電腦。這所學(xué)校申請盡早被批準(zhǔn)進(jìn)入下一學(xué)年計(jì)劃的學(xué)生達(dá)到了70%。