考研英語題源閱讀材料150篇
(1): 重建美國夢機器
Rebuilding the American dream machine
重建美國夢機器
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.
對美國的大學而言,一月是一個清算的月份。大多數(shù)要進入將于秋季開學的下一學年學習的申請必須在12月底前完成,因此一所大學的聲望就有了客觀依據(jù) :申請人的多少。紐約城市大學,一所公立學院,與其他學校相比,它沒有一支聲名顯赫的運動隊,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術(shù)上的可信度,可就是這所大學的辦公室塞滿了學生們寄來的申請函,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%.
城市大學主要吸引人的地方在于它為從2001年開始為聰明過人的學生所設立的培養(yǎng)計劃。6萬名城市大學的五所頂尖學院學生中,約有1100人能得到“免費教育”,這在花費巨大的美國大學界可是一件稀罕事。被納入城市大學榮譽計劃的學生無需支付學費,相反,他們還獲得一份7500美元的定期生活津貼(用于補助日常開銷)以及一本筆記本電腦。這所學校申請盡早被批準進入下一學年計劃的學生達到了70%。