英语专四阅读关于象征

『壹』 象征的英文短语

用英语来表达象征的意义，也用它来 造句 。你会了吗?下面是我给大家带来象征的英文 短语 词组，供大家参阅!
象征的英文(短语篇)
1、这枚戒指是他们爱情的象征，对她是重要的。

The ring was important to her as an emblem of their love.

码答2、作为那些公司的拥有者，她被视为财富的象征。

Being the owner of those corporations, she is regarded as an emblem of mammon.

3、这座钟楼是这个城市的象征。

The bell tower is the emblem of this city.

4、橄榄枝是和平的象征。

The olive branch is the emblem of peace.

5、鸽子是和平的象征。

The dove is the symbol of peace.

6、我们把蒲公英看作希望的象征。

We regard dandelion as an emblem of hope.

7、鸽子象征和平。 (代表。象征)

The dove represents peace.

8、艺术的生成活动是在其审美象征意境中完成的。

The generative process of art depends on the symbol of its aesthetic conception.

9、他们享有所有象征财富的东西。

They enjoyed all the trappings of wealth.
象征的英文( 句子 篇)
1、火炬象征光明。

A torch symbolizes the brightness (of the future).

2、她的香水或许是你的象征，或者她的脸，或者任何东西。

Her perfume might be your symbol, or her face, or anything.

3、美在她看来，正如许多深有感触的人一样，并不在美的事物本身，而是在它的象征。

Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

4、它们也象征我们一起分享的爱、喜悦和笑声”。

They also symbolize the love, joy, and laughter we share together.

5、紫色赋予了大自然中的一切，从茄子到紫水晶，并且人类已经采用它作为皇室的象征。

Purple is prevalent in nature in everything from eggplants to amethysts, and humans haveadopted it as a symbol of royalty.

6、那字母成了她响应感召的象征。

The letter was the symbol of her calling.

大掘7、在你的 故滚模核事 或场景中使用象征或暗喻，并且让你的人物谈论它。

Use a symbol or metaphor in your story or scene, and have characters talk about it.

8、她看到自己可以与他一同达到高潮作为内心接受他的象征，并且责备自己曾经‘拒绝’他或‘没有渴求’他。

She saw being able to ‘come’ with him to be symbolic of accepting him, and blamed herself for‘rejecting’ or ‘not wanting’ him.

9、罗伯特说，"每幅图像都是一场战争或暴力行为的象征，比如一杆枪或一辆坦克。

Robert said: "Each image is a symbol of war or violence, such as a gun or a tank.

10、在别人眼里，他是困苦贫穷的象征。

In others’ eyes, he was the symbol of poverty.

11、在纹章学中，黑色是悲痛的象征。

In heraldry, black is the symbol of grief.

12、实际上，他的象征是丰饶之角。

In fact, his symbol is the cornucopia.

13、金钱只是一个象征。

It is only a symbol.

14、本杰明：有一些是吉祥物，还有一些则是权势的象征。

Benjamin: Some of them are mascots and some are symbols of power.

15、她后来宣布说所有从槲寄生下经过的人将不会受到伤害，而会得到一个象征爱情的吻。

She later proclaimed that all who pass under the plant would have no harm come to them, only a kiss, a token of love.
象征的英文(例句篇)
1. In some works, flowers take on a powerful emblematic quality.

在一些作品中，花具有强烈的象征意义。

2. His bristling determination has become a symbol of England's renaissance.

他精力旺盛，坚毅顽强，已经成为英格兰文艺复兴的一个象征。

3. T-shirts, the epitome of American casualness, have moved upscale.

象征美国休闲风格的T恤，已经向高端消费市场迈进。

4. The island's ruggedness symbolises our history and the character of the people.

这个岛屿的凹凸险峻象征着我们的历史和民族性格。

5. He suggested that the shapes represented a map of Britain and Ireland.

他暗示这些图形象征了英国和爱尔兰的地图。

6. For twenty-nine years, Checkpoint Charlie embodied the Cold War.

29年来，查理检查站一直是冷战的象征。

7. King was a worldwide symbol of non-violent protest against racial injustice.

金是全世界非暴力抗议种族不平等运动的象征。

8. To them, the monarchy is the special symbol of nationhood.

在他们看来，君主制是独立国地位的特殊象征。

9. In Norman England, the greyhound was a symbol of nobility.

灵犭是在诺曼时期的英格兰是高贵的象征。

10. They were waving V-signs for victory.

他们打着象征胜利的V字形手势。

11. Dogs are emblematic of faithfulness.

狗象征着忠诚。

12. I frequently use sunflowers as symbols of strength.

我经常用向日葵来作为力量的象征。

13. The flame is a quasi-religious emblem of immortality.

火焰可以算作不朽的宗教象征。

14. Computers have always represented the latest in technology.

计算机向来是最新科技的象征。

15. Each circle symbolically represents the whole of humanity.

『贰』 英语专四阅读长难句中英文对照（六）

101. Thus in addition to the chances of going away from the right path outlined above, the scientific investigator shares with the ordinary citizen the possibilities of falling into errors of reasoning in the ways we have just indicated, and many others as well.

102. He made a hole and peering through, could see jewellery, and other objects stacked in piles in the shadows that extended beyond the beam of light penetrating the interior.

桐拍103. Neither Ayat nor the Rassoul brothers noticed, however, that most of the pieces they were selling were of a type not previously seen in the marketplace—pieces whose existence had been suspected but which had not yet been discovered by archaeologists.

104. “The biggest construction project of this century”, explained French President Francois Mitterand in January, 1986 as he and then British prime minister Margaret Thatcher jointly announced that the two countries would finally overcome ancient quarrels and prejudices and forge a link across the narrow Channel separating them.

105. Perhaps the fact that many of these first studies considered only algae(水藻) of a size that could be collected in a net (net phytoplankton), a practice that overlooked the smaller phytoplankton(浮游植物群落) that we now know grazers are most likely to feed on, led to a de-emphasis of the role of grazers in subsequent research.

饥轮扒106. The converse observation, of the absence of grazers (食草烂昌动物)in areas of high phytoPlankton(浮游植物群落)concentration, led Hardy to propose his principle of animal exclusion , which hypothesized that phytoplankton proced a repellent(驱虫剂) that excluded grazers from regions of high phytoplankton concentration.

107. Although these molecules allow radiation at visible at wave lengths, where most of the energy of sunlight is concentrated, to pass through, they absorb some of the longer-wavelength, infrared emission(红外辐射) radiated from the Earth’s surface, radiation that would otherwise be transmitted back into space.

108. In addition, the style of some Black novels, like Jean Toomer’s Cane, verges on expressionism or surrealism(超现实主义), does this technique provide a counter point to the prevalent theme that portrays the fate against which Black heroes are pitted, a theme usually conveyed by more naturalistic modes of expression?

109. Roseenblatt’s thematic analysis permits considerable objectivity; he even explicitly states that it is not his intention to judge the merit of the various works—yet his reluctance seems misplaced, especially since an attempt to appraise might have led to interesting results.

110. Thus, for instance, it may come as a shock to mathematicians to learn that the Schrodinger equation (薛定谔的方程式)for the hydrogen atom is not a literally correct description of this atom, but only an approximation to a somewhat more correct equation taking account of spin, magnetic dipole (磁性偶极子), and relatiristic effects, and that this corrected equation is itself only an imperfect approximation to an infinite set of quantum field theoretical equations( 量子场论方程式).

111. Great comic artists assume that truth may bear all lights, and thus they seek to accentuate( 强调) contradictions in social action, not gloss over or transcend them by appeals to extrasocial symbols of divine ends, cosmic purpose, or laws of nature.

112. The hydrologic(水文地质的) cycle, a major topic in this science, is the complete cycle of phenomena through which water passes, beginning as atmospheric water vapor, passing into liquid and solid form as precipitation (降水(量)), thence along and into the ground surface, and finally again returning to the form of atmospheric water vapor by means of evaporation and transpiration(散发).

113. My point is that its central consciousness—its profound understanding of class and gender as shaping influences on people’s lives—owes much to that earlier literary heritage, a heritage that, in general, has not been sufficiently valued by most contemporary literary critics.

114. In the early 1950’s historians who studies preinstrial Europe (which we may define here as Europe in the period from roughly 1300 to 1800) began, for the first time in large numbers, to investigate more of the preinstrial European population than the 2 or 3 percent who comprised the political and social elite (精华) : the kings, generals, judges, nobles, bishops, and local magnates (要人) who had hitherto (迄今) usually filled history books.

115. The historian Frederick J. Tuner wrote in the 1890’s that the agrarian(农民) discontent (不满) that had been developing steadily in the United States since about 1870 had been precipitated (加速) by the closing of the internal frontier—that is , the depletion (枯竭) of available new land needed for further expansion of the American farming system.

116. Fallois proposed that Proust had tried to begin a novel in 1908, abandoned it for what was to be a long demonstration of Saint-Beure’s blindness to the real nature of great writing, found the essay giving rise to personal memories and fictional developments, and allowed these to take over in a steadily developing novel.

117. The best evidence for the layered mantle (地幔) thesis is the well-established fact that volcanic rocks found on oceanic islands, islands believed to result from mantle plumes (地柱) arising from the lower mantle, are composed of material fundamentally different from that of the midocean ridge system, whose source, most geologists contend, is the upper mantle.

118. In October 1838, I happened to read for amusement Malthus on Population, and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on, from long continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that, under these circumstances, favorable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.

119. But these beliefs about peptide hormones (肽激素) were questioned as laboratory after laboratory found that antiserums(抗血清) to peptide hormones, when injected into the brain, bind in places other than the hypothalamus(下丘脑), indicating that either the hormones or substances that cross-react with the antiserums are present.

120 Proponents(支持者)of the so-called Golden Quadrangle (金四角)，which would link areas of Bruma, Laos, Thailand and China’s Yunnan province, are seeking an Asian Development Bank feasibility study of joint development and business projects that could free the region’s hinterlands(内地)from their notorious dependence on the heroin trade.

第六部分(101-120句译文)

101、因此除了以上列出的走弯路的可能性外，科学研究者们和普通人一样，也有在我们刚才提到的思维方式上犯错误的可能性，以及在一些其他的方面。

102、他掏了个洞往里瞥去，能看见珠宝，在透进去的光线之外的阴影里面，还有些堆成堆的其他东西。

103、阿雅特和罗索尔兄弟都不知道他们销售的大部分都是以前在市场上面没有人见过的东西——只被人们猜想过它的存在，但从来没有考古学家真正发现过。

104、1986年1月，法国总统弗兰西斯· 密特朗解释说：“这是本世纪最大的建设项目。”当时，他和英国首相玛格丽特·撒切尔一起宣布两国将克服一直以来的争论和偏见，铺设一条横穿分隔两国的狭长海峡的地下隧道。

105、也学是早期的许多研究只考虑了一种大小足以被浮游植物网采集的水藻，而这种做法忽略了更小的浮游植物—现在我们知道食草动物很可能以它为生。这些事实和做法导致了在后面的研究中对食草动物的忽视。

106、相反的观察，即在浮游植物群落高度集中的地方缺乏食草动物的现象，使哈笛提出了他的“动物排除”理论，该理论假设浮游植物群落能产生一种驱虫剂赶走在浮游植物高度集中区域内的食草动物。

107、尽管这些分子能够透过可见光，阳光的大部分热量?都集中在这个波段，但是它们吸收长波，从地表来的红外辐射，或者将有些辐射折射回空中。

108、此外，一些黑人小说的风格，像Jean Toomer的Cane，就接近于表现主义或者超现实主义，这种巧合是否给流行描述黑人主人公与命运对抗的主题提供了一个反衬点，或者经常被更加自然的表达模式所传达的主题?

109、Roseenblatt的主题分析非常有客观性，他甚至明确地说他并不愿判断各种作品的价值—但他的说法似乎有些不对头，特别是有时赞美的尝试可能产生有趣的结果。

110、这样，对于数学家们来说是非常惊诧的，例如，薛定谔方程式并不是氢原子的准确描述，而只是某种程度上的近似值。它近似于另外一种描述磁性偶极子相对效果的方程，而这个方程本身又是一套不定量子场论方程的近似值。

111、大喜剧家们认为真理需要各种启示，因此他们开始强调社会活动中的各种矛盾，而不是掩饰或者通过非社会象征的神圣结局和喜剧目的、自然规律来超越它。

112、水文地质循环是这一科学里面的一个重要课题，它是水的完全循环过程。这一过程从水蒸汽开始中，以降水量的形式成为液态或者固态水，这样就到了地表，最后又通过蒸发或者散发方式回到水蒸汽的状态。

113、我认为它的关键意识——它对于阶级和性的深远理解对人们的生活有着重要影响——很大程度上归功于文化遗产，总的来说，当代的文艺批评家并未对此给予足够评价。

114、早在20世纪50年代，许多研究前工业时代欧洲(我们可将其粗略定义为1300年至1800年间的欧洲)的历史学家们开始研究更多的欧洲人群，而不仅仅局在只占人口总数2%到3%的那些至今还充斥着历史书籍的政治、社会、精英人物：国王、将军、法官、贵族主教和地方要人。

115、历史学家Frederick J Tuner在19世纪90年代写道：自1870年以来美国农民的不满一直在缓慢增长，直到1870年关闭了内部前沿以后就被加速了——就是说，用于扩张农业系统的新土地资源已经枯竭了。

116、Fallois提出Proust 1908年就开始写小说了，因为Saint-Beure对于写作的真实性质的忽视，他把小说放置了。后来开始流行个人回忆录和科幻小说，这些东西和小说一起稳步地发展。

117、分层地幔的最好证据就是在海岛上发现的火山岩这一明显的事实。岛屿被认为是从低层地幔升起的地柱形成的，它构成的基本成份与海中的山脊系统根本不同，许多地质学家认为它起源于上层地幔。

118、1838年10月，我随便读了《马尔萨散人口论》，很欣赏书的到处都有的生存竞争，经过对动物和植物生存习性的长期观察，我忽然想到这种环境下，有利于生存的变化被保留了，而不利于生存变化被消除了。

119、但是这些对于肽激素的信仿，被一个又一个的实验室质疑，他们发现抗血清被注入大脑后，并不在下丘脑那里才凝固，显示出肽激素和与抗血清反作用的物质都不存在。

120、连接着缅甸、老挝、泰国和中国云南省的区域构成了所谓的金三角，它的支持者们正寻求亚洲发展银行进行合作开发的可行性研究，以此来使其区域内地摆脱对臭名昭著的海洛因贸易的依靠。

『叁』 想请教英语中象征和隐喻的区别，汉英回答均可，最好附加参考语料。如果能结合《动物庄园》，悬赏高分。

英语动物词汇的象征意义
人们在长期的生活中和动物有着广泛的接触。通过对动物的驯化和观察，人们在动物身上寄予了“某种感情，某种概念，某种联想和某种隐喻”，英语中的动物词汇也因此具有繁多的象征意义。
1、象征人物
大自然的动物各有特征，人们常借那些特征明显的动物喻指人物，或褒或贬，意味深长。例如： a ss（驴子，比喻愚蠢的人）；snake（蛇，比喻阴险的人）；fox（狐狸，比喻狡猾的人）；dove（鸽子，比喻爱好和平的人）；wolf（狼，比喻凶狠的人）； w hite elephant（白象，比喻大而无用之人）
2、描述动作
众所周知，滚伏启英语中广泛存在着“名词动用”的现厅腔象，动物名词也常常“动词化”，用来描述人类的行为特征，从而显得形象、生动。 例如： S he craned her neck to look for her lost wallet．（她伸长了脖子寻找丢失的钱包。）“ c rane”原为仙鹤之意，借用此处，活灵活现的展现出当事人的焦急状。 T he train is snaking it’s way along the scope．（火车沿着山坡蜿蜒大如而行。）“ s nake”（蛇）身形弯曲，此处用于描述火车沿山而行，形象贴切。

T he beggar wolfed down the whole bread when he gotit．（乞丐拿到面包就一口吞了下去。）“ w olf”（狼）生性凶狠，借用此处，惟妙惟肖地展现了乞丐的“饥”不可待。
最后，动物词汇常用于形容人和事物的特征。如： h awknosed（长着鹰钩鼻的）；swallow tailed coat（燕尾服）等。总之，人们通过对日常生活中熟悉的具有鲜明形象和突出特征的动物来喻指相似的人或物，既生动传神，丰富了英语的语汇和表达，同时还大大增加了英语的语言魅力。
隐喻隐藏着极为丰富、形象的意象与内涵,从人的言行到世间一切有生命或无生命的事物,其心理、情感、思想、性质、状态、形象或特征等一切相关的意义,都可以通过一个隐喻进行充分完善的表述。如用建筑物的基础(foundation)喻指一种理论的基础(thefoundation of a theory);用阳光(sunshine)喻指幸福的生活(sunshine of life);赋予客观事物以人的特征,如:angrysky(愤怒的天空),laughing mountains(欢笑的群山);把抽象的概念具体化,如:the pain of separation(分离之苦);把具体的方位词语喻指抽象概念,如:in high spirits(情绪高涨),down-hearted(消沉沮丧的)……
例如:It is regrettable that our appeal remained a dead letter.遗憾的是,我们当时的呼吁石沉大海。如果我们把上例句子直译为“遗憾的是,我们当时的呼吁一直是无法投递的死信”。那就会有意思的出入。black sheep害群之马(不宜译为“黑羊”)When Mary came down dressed for the dance,her fa-ther remarked:“Fine feather make fine birds.”玛丽打扮好了下楼准备去参加舞会时,她父亲说:“佛要金装,人要衣装。”Great minds think alike.英雄所见略同。Grayhairshouldberespected.老年人应受到尊重。Anewbroomsweeps clean.新官上任三把火。the salt ofthe earth社会中坚

『肆』 求一篇英语文章，关于美国的象征

The Statue of Liberty

In the mid-1870s, French artist Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was working on an enormous project called Liberty Enlightening the World, a monument celebrating US independence and the France-America alliance. At the same time, he was in love with a woman whom he had met in Canada. His mother could not approve of her son's affection for a woman she had never met, but Bartholdi went ahead and married his love in 1876.
That same year Bartholdi had assembled the statue's right arm and torch, and displayed them in Philadelphia. It is said that he had used his wife's arm as the model, but felt her face was too beautiful for the statue. He needed someone whose face represented suffering yet strength, someone more severe than beautiful. He chose his mother.
The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on an island in Upper New York Bay in 1886. It had his mother's face and his wife's body, but Bartholdi called it "my daughter, Liberty".
Barbie
Before all the different types of Barbie dolls for sale now, there was just a single Barbie. Actually, her name was Barbara.
Barbara Handler was the daughter of Elliot and Ruth Handler, co-founders of the Mattel Toy Company. Ruth came up with the idea for Barbie after watching her daughter play with paper dolls. The three-dimensional model for Barbie was a German doll — a joke gift for alts described as having the appearance of "a woman who sold sex". Mattel refashioned the doll into a decent, all-American — although with an exaggerated breast size — version and named it after Barbara, who was then a teenager.
Since her introction in 1959, Barbie has become the universally recognized Queen of the Dolls. Mattel says the average American girl owns ten Barbie dolls, and two are sold somewhere in the world every second.
Now more than sixty years old, Barbara — who declines interviews but is said to have loved the doll - may be the most famous unknown figure on the planet.
Barbie's boyfriend, Ken, was introced in 1961 and named after Barbara's brother. The real Ken, who died in 1994, was disgusted by the doll that made his family famous. "I don't want my children to play with it," he said in 1993.
American Gothic
Grant Wood instantly rose to fame in 1930 with his painting American Gothic, an often-copied interpretation of the solemn pride of American farmers. The painting shows a serious-looking man and a woman standing in front of a farmhouse. He was strongly influenced by medieval artists and inspired by the Gothic window of an old farmhouse, but the faces in his composition were what captured the world's attention.
Wood liked to paint faces he knew well. For the grave farmer he used his dentist, a sour-looking man. For the woman standing alongside him, the artist chose his sister, Nan. He stretched the models' necks a bit, but there was no doubt who posed for the portrait.
Nan later remarked that the fame she gained from American Gothic saved her from a very boring life.
The Buffalo Nickel
Today, American coins honor prominent figures of the US government — mostly famous former presidents. But the Buffalo nickel, proced from 1913 to 1938, honored a pair of connected tragedies from the settlement of the American frontier — the destruction of the buffalo herds and the American Indians.
While white people had previously been used as models for most American coins, famed artist James Earle Fraser went against tradition by using three actual American Indians as models for his creation.
For the buffalo on the other side, since buffalo no longer wandered about the great grasslands, Fraser was forced to sketch an aging buffalo from New York City's Central Park Zoo. Two years later, in 1915, this animal was sold for $100 and killed for meat, a hide, and a wall decoration made from its horns.
Uncle Sam
Fourteen-year-old Sam Wilson ran away from home to join his father and older brothers in the fight to liberate the American colonies from the British ring the American Revolution. At age 23, he started a meatpacking business and earned a reputation for being honest and hard working.

During a later war in 1812, Wilson gained a position inspecting meat for US Army forces, working with a man who had signed a contract with the government to provide meat to the army. Barrels of meat supplied to the army were stamped "EA-US", identifying the company (EA) and country of origin (US). According to one story, when a government official visited the plant and asked about the letters, a creative employee told him "US" was short for "Uncle Sam" Wilson. Soon soldiers were saying all Army supplies were from "Uncle Sam".
After the war, a character called Uncle Sam began appearing in political cartoons, his form evolving from an earlier cartoon character called Brother Jonathan that was popular ring the American Revolution. Uncle Sam soon replaced Brother Jonathan as American's most popular symbol. The most enring portrait of Uncle Sam was created by artist James Montgomery Flagg in his famous army recruiting posters of World Wars I and II. That version — a tall man with white hair and a small white beard on his chin, a dark blue coat and a tall hat with stars on it — was a self-portrait of Flagg.

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第一篇：

What we know of prenatal development makes all this attempt made by a mother to mold the character of her unborn child by studying poetry, art, or mathematics ring pregnancy seem utterly impossible. How could such extremely complex influences pass from the mother to the child? There is no connection between their nervous systems. Even the blood vessels of mother and child do not join directly. An emotional shock to the mother will affect her child, because it changes the activity of her glands and so the chemistry her blood. Any chemical change in the mother's blood will affect the child for better or worse. But we can not see how a looking for mathematics or poetic genius can be dissolved in blood and proce a similar liking or genius in the child.

In our discussion of instincts we saw that there was reason to believe that whatever we inherit must be of some very simple sort rather than any complicated or very definite kind of behavior. It is certain that no one inherits a knowledge of mathematics. It may be, however, that children inherit more or less of a rather general ability that we may call intelligence. If very intelligent children become deeply interested in mathematics, they will probably make a success of that study.

As for musical ability, it may be that what is inherited is an especially sensitive ear, a peculiar structure of the hands or the vocal organs connections between nerves and muscles that make it comparatively easy to learn the movements a musician must execute, and particularly vigorous emotions. If these factors are all organized around music, the child may become a musician. The same factors, in other circumstance might be organized about some other center of interest. The rich emotional equipment might find expression in poetry. The capable fingers might develop skill in surgery. It is not the knowledge of music that is inherited, then nor even the love of it, but a certain bodily structure that makes it comparatively easy to acquire musical knowledge and skill. Whether that ability shall be directed toward music or some other undertaking may be decided entirely by forces in the environment in which a child grows up.

1. Which of the following statements is not true?

A. Some mothers try to influence their unborn children by studying art and other subjects ring their pregnancy.

B. It is utterly impossible for us to learn anything about prenatal development.

C. The blood vessels of mother and child do not join directly.

D. There are no connection between mother's nervous systems and her unborn child's.

2. A mother will affect her unborn baby on the condition that ____.

A. she is emotionally shocked

B. she has a good knowledge of inheritance

C. she takes part in all kind of activities

D. she sticks to studying

3. According to the passage, a child may inherit____.

A. everything from his mother

B. a knowledge of mathematics

C. a rather general ability that we call intelligence

D. her mother's musical ability

4. If a child inherits something from his mother, such as an especially sensitive ear, a peculiar structure of the hands or of the vocal organs, he will ____.

A. surely become musician

B. mostly become a poet

C. possibly become a teacher

D. become a musician on the condition that all these factors are organized around music

5. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A. Role of Inheritance. B. An Unborn Child.

C. Function of instincts. D. Inherited Talents

第二篇：

The case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation. All high school graates ought to go, says conventional wisdom and statistical evidence, because college will help them earn more money, become "better" people, and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who don't go.

But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graates are attending, those who don't fit the pattern are becoming more numerous, and more obvious. College graates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students interfere with each other's experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the intense competition for admission to graate school. Other find no stimulation in their studies, and drop out—often encouraged by college administrators.

Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves—they are spoiled and they are expecting too much. But that is a condemnation of the students as a whole, and doesn't explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the world, and they are partly right. We have been told that young people have to go to college because our economy can't absorb an army of untrained eighteen-year-olds. But disappointed graates are learning that it can no longer absorb an army of trained twenty-two-year-olds, either.

Some adventuresome ecators and watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, the proper, the only place for every young person after the completion of high school. We may have been looking at all those surveys and statistics upside down, it seems, and through the rosy glow of our own remembered college experiences. Perhaps college doesn't make people intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, or quick to learn things—may it is just the other way around, and intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, quick-learning people are merely the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place. And perhaps all those successful college graates would have been successful whether they had gone to college or not. This is heresy to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if a little schooling is good, more has to be much better. But contrary evidence is beginning to mount up.

1.According to the author, ___.

A.people used to question the value of college ecation.

B.people used to have full confidence in higher ecation.

C.all high school graates went to college.

D.very few high school graates chose to go to college.

2.In the 2nd paragraph, "those who don't fit the pattern" refer to___.

A.high school graates who aren't suitable for college ecation.

B.college graates who are selling shoes and driving taxis.

C.college students who aren't any better for their higher ecation.

D.high school graates who failed to be admitted to college.

3.The dropout rate of college students seems to go up because___.

A.young people are disappointed with the conventional way of teaching at college.

B.many people are required to join the army.

C.young people have little motivation in pursuing a higher ecation.

D.young people don't like the intense competition for admission to graate school.

4.According to the passage, the problems of college ecation partly originate in the fact that___.

A.society cannot provide enough jobs for properly trained graates.

B.High school graates do not fit the pattern of college ecation.

C.Too many students have to earn their own living.

D.College administrators encourage students to drop out.

5.In this passage the author argues that___.

A.more and more evidence shows college ecation may not be the best thing for high school graates.

B.College ecation is not enough if one wants to be successful.

C.College ecation benefits only the intelligent, ambitious, and quick-learning people.

D.Intelligent people may learn quicker if they don't go to college.

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