Question

Harvard University in the United States has been ranked as the university with the best "reputation" in the world.

The Times Higher Education magazine has listed 200 top universities all over the world based on how they are regarded by a group of international college teachers. That is to say the list measures how universities are regarded, rather than how they actually performed.

A subjective, word-of-mouth（口碑的）quality such as "reputation" has genuine economic value for universities, said Simon Marginson, professor of higher education at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

"Reputation is not just an impression, though it might be not as reliable as performance by objective indicators（客觀指標(biāo)）," said Prof Marginson.

Based on the views of 13,000 college teachers around the world, it confirms the power of the big US universities, which dominate this list. Seven of the top 10 are US universities, headed by Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Furthermore, 14 of the top 20 are from the US. Cambridge is the highest ranking UK university in the list, in third place, with Oxford ranked as sixth.

For students applying to university, reputation might be hard to quantify, but was an important part of the attractiveness, said the president of Cambridge University's students' union, Rahul Mansigani.

"Reputation makes a huge difference. If there is an idea that somewhere is great, it will get lots of good people applying whether it's true or not. Factors such as a sense of history and the presence of outstanding college teachers were part of the reputation of Cambridge," he said.

1.The underlined word “dominate” in Paragraph 5 probably means __________.

A. affect B. decide C. control D. improve

2.What can be inferred from the text?

A. No Asian universities are among the Top 10.

B. At least five UK universities are among Top 20.

C. The Times Higher Education magazine is from the US.

D. Reputation affects students’ decisions when choosing universities.

3.Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?

A. Turning ideas into reputation

B. World’s best universities ranked in order of reputation

C. The top 200 universities in the USA

D. Reputable Universities attractive to more students

 

Answer 1

1.C

2.D

3.B

【解析】

試題分析：一所大學(xué)的“名望”盡管很難具體的量化但卻非常重要。泰晤士高等教育雜志公布了全世界最負(fù)盛名的前200名大學(xué)的名單，其中哈弗大學(xué)名列榜首。

1.C詞意推測題。A. affect“影響”； B. decide“決定”； C. control“控制”； D. improve“提高”，根據(jù)上下文“Based on the views of 13,000 college teachers around the world, it confirms the power of the big US universities, which dominate this list. Seven of the top 10 are US universities, headed by Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).”which引導(dǎo)的非限制性定語從句，指代上文中的“the power of the big US universities”（美國大學(xué)的影響力）。而其后一句所說的具體內(nèi)容“排名前十的大學(xué)中有七所是美國的大學(xué)，以哈弗大學(xué)和麻省理工大學(xué)為首�！� ，所以定語從句的句意應(yīng)是“美國大學(xué)的影響力在排名中‘占壓倒性的優(yōu)勢’�！惫收�確答案為C.

2.D推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第二段the president of Cambridge University's students' union, Rahul Mansigani所說的話“For students applying to university, reputation …was an important part of the attractiveness”可知，大學(xué)的名望是其吸引學(xué)生的一個重要方面，即大學(xué)的聲望會影響孩子在選擇大學(xué)時的決定。故正確答案為D.

3.B主旨大意題。通讀全文可知，本文主要講述的是：泰晤士高等教育雜志公布了全世界最負(fù)盛名前200名大學(xué)的名單，其中哈弗大學(xué)名列榜首。故該題正確答案為B.

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