The Carnegie Foundation report says that many colleges have tried to be "all things to all people". In doing so, they have (1) catered (2) a narrow-minded careerism while failing to (3) a global vision among their students. The current crisis, it (4) , does not derive (5) a legitimate desire to put learning (6) productive ends. The problem is that in too many academic fields, the work has no context; skills, (7) being means, have become ends. Students are (8) a variety of (9) and allowed to (10) their way to a degree. (11) , driven by careerism, "the nation’s colleges and universities are more successful in providing credentials than in providing a quality education for their students". The report concludes that the special challenge confronting the undergraduate college is one of shaping an "integrated core" of common learning. Such a core would introduce students "to (12) knowledge, to connections across the disciplines, and in the end, to (13) of knowledge to life beyond the campus". Although the key to a good college is a high-quality (14) , the Carnegie study found that most colleges do very little to (15) good teaching. In fact, they do much to undermine it. As one professor observed: "Teaching is important, we are told, and yet faculty know that research and publication (16) most." Not surprisingly, over the last twenty years colleges and universities have (17) to graduate half of their four-year degree candidates. Faculty members who (18) themselves to teaching soon discover that they will not be granted tenure, promotion, or (19) salary increases. Yet 70 percent of all faculty say their interests lie more in teaching than in research. Additionally, a frequent complaint among young scholars is that "there is pressure to publish," although there is (20) no interest among administrators or colleagues in the content of the publications.
A. substantial
B. substantive
C. subsequent
D. subsidiary
Are you aware that you actually possess six senses The sixth is a muscular sense (1) for your muscles intelligently to the exact (2) necessary for each action you perform. For example, when you reach (3) an object, the sensory nerves (4) the muscles to the brain and stop your hand at the correct (5) . This automatic perception of the position of your muscles (6) relation to the object is your muscular (7) in action. Muscles are bundles of fibers (8) from one five-thousandth of an inch to about three inches. They have three (9) characteristics: they can become shorter and thicker; they can (10) ; and they can retract to their original positions. (11) a high powered microscope, muscle tissue is seen (12) long, slender cells with a grainy texture like wood. More than half of a person’s body is (13) of muscle fibers, most of (14) are involuntary, in other words, work without (15) direction. The voluntary muscles, those that we move consciously to (16) particular actions, (17) more than five hundred. Women have only 60 to 70 percent as much (18) as men for their (19) mass. That is (20) an average woman can’t lift as much, throw as far, or hit as hard as an average man.
A. great
B. definite
C. noticeable
D. conscious
Are you aware that you actually possess six senses The sixth is a muscular sense (1) for your muscles intelligently to the exact (2) necessary for each action you perform. For example, when you reach (3) an object, the sensory nerves (4) the muscles to the brain and stop your hand at the correct (5) . This automatic perception of the position of your muscles (6) relation to the object is your muscular (7) in action. Muscles are bundles of fibers (8) from one five-thousandth of an inch to about three inches. They have three (9) characteristics: they can become shorter and thicker; they can (10) ; and they can retract to their original positions. (11) a high powered microscope, muscle tissue is seen (12) long, slender cells with a grainy texture like wood. More than half of a person’s body is (13) of muscle fibers, most of (14) are involuntary, in other words, work without (15) direction. The voluntary muscles, those that we move consciously to (16) particular actions, (17) more than five hundred. Women have only 60 to 70 percent as much (18) as men for their (19) mass. That is (20) an average woman can’t lift as much, throw as far, or hit as hard as an average man.
A. perform
B. make
C. fulfill
D. satisfy
Are you aware that you actually possess six senses The sixth is a muscular sense (1) for your muscles intelligently to the exact (2) necessary for each action you perform. For example, when you reach (3) an object, the sensory nerves (4) the muscles to the brain and stop your hand at the correct (5) . This automatic perception of the position of your muscles (6) relation to the object is your muscular (7) in action. Muscles are bundles of fibers (8) from one five-thousandth of an inch to about three inches. They have three (9) characteristics: they can become shorter and thicker; they can (10) ; and they can retract to their original positions. (11) a high powered microscope, muscle tissue is seen (12) long, slender cells with a grainy texture like wood. More than half of a person’s body is (13) of muscle fibers, most of (14) are involuntary, in other words, work without (15) direction. The voluntary muscles, those that we move consciously to (16) particular actions, (17) more than five hundred. Women have only 60 to 70 percent as much (18) as men for their (19) mass. That is (20) an average woman can’t lift as much, throw as far, or hit as hard as an average man.
At
B. In
C. On
D. Under