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  3. In an ideal world, the nation’s elite schools would enroll the most qualified students. But that’s not how it (1)_____. Applican

In an ideal world, the nation’s elite schools would enroll the most qualified students. But that’s not how it (1)_____. Applican

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问题     In an ideal world, the nation’s elite schools would enroll the most qualified students. But that’s not how it (1)_____. Applicants whose parents are alums get special treatment, as (2)_____ athletes and rich kids. Underrepresented minorities are also given (3)_____. Thirty years of affirmative action have changed the character of (4)_____ white universities; now about 13 percent of all undergraduates are black or Latino. (5)_____ a recent study by the Century Foundation found that at the nation’s 146 most (6)_____ schools, 74 percent of students came from upper middle-class and wealthy families, while only about 5 percent came from families with an annual income of (7)_____ $35,000 or less.
    Many schools say diversity—racial, economic and geographic—is (8)_____ to maintaining intellectually (9)_____ campuses. But Richard Kahlenberg of the Century Foundation says that even though colleges (10)_____ they want poor kids, "they don’t try very hard to find them (11)_____ rural students, many colleges don’t try at all. "Unfortunately, we go where we can (12)_____ a sizable number of potential applicants," says Tulane admissions chief Richard Whiteside, who (13)_____ aggressively—and in person—from metropolitan areas. Kids in rural areas get a glossy (14)_____ in the mail.
    Even when poor rural students have the (15) for top colleges, their high schools often don’t know how to get them there. Admissions officers  (16)_____ guidance counselors to direct them to promising prospects. In (17)_____ high schools, guidance counselors often have personal (18)_____ with both kids and admissions officers. In rural areas, a teacher, a counselor or (19)_____ an alumnus "can help put a rural student on our radar screen," says Wesleyan admissions dean Nancy Meislahn. But poor rural schools rarely have college (20)_____ with those connections; without them, admission "can be a crapshoot," says Carnegie Mellon’s Steidel.

选项 A、excellent
B、wealthy
C、popular
D、competitive
答案D
解析 本题主要考查的词汇辨析能力和上下文的理解能力。根据上文可知，本文主要说明"精英学校"在招生方面的问题，所以空格要填入跟"精英学校"意思贴近的词汇，competitive"竞争激烈的"应为答案。excellent"优秀的"不如competitive贴近文意，毕竟文章是说竞争入学问题，wealthy"富裕的"，popular"受人欢迎的"同样与上文语义不贴近。
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