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Passage 1

Questions 11—15 are based on the following passage.

In basketball, it's essential that every player masters what's commonly called the triple-threat position(三重威胁姿势). It's when a basketball player's body is in a position maximizingthe player's chance of scoring, passing, or dribbling. Similarly, it's also urgent that collegescreate their own version of triple-threat graduates at a time when higher education is more neededthan ever, though its value is being more questioned.

So what's a triple-threat graduate? It's a graduate who leaves college with a broad educationin the form of a bachelor's degree, and has these critical elements: engagement in several long-term projects, extensive work experience and an industry-recognized certificate. What's more,these have to show up on the resume, clearly visible to the graduate and potential employers.

Higher education has long relied on very inspiring and worthy promises for graduates suchas creating engaged citizens, critical thinkers and life-long learners. The problem is that highereducation has struggled to produce evidence that these goals are being achieved. A triple-threatgraduate framework is simple to understand and highly measurable. It matches neatly with theconceptual goals of producing engaged citizens, critical thinkers, and life-long learners. It canbecome a solid three-legged chair on which higher education can clearly define its value-proposition(价值主张)in a world of increasingly demanding requirements.

What should colleges do to ensure that they are producing triple-threat graduates? First, theinternship(实习),and co-operation should be established as part of graduate requirements.Universities need to have the proper infrastructure to support this. Second, universities need to carefully check all their courses to identify those that involve long-term projects. And then theseprojects need to be noted in order to encourage students to highlight them on resumes. Finally,universities need to add a menu of industry-recognized qualifications during the course of theirstudents' bachelor's degree pursuit. Whether done during summer sessions or woven intoexisting courses, there are many opportunities to help students add this to their experiences.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】细节理解题。根据第三段第一句和第二句Higher education has long relied on veryinspiring and worthy promises for graduatessuch as creating engaged citizens,criticalthinkers and life-long learners. The problem isthat higher education has struggled to produceevidence that these goals are being achieved(长期以来，高等教育一直依赖于对毕业生做出非常鼓舞人心和有价值的承诺，比如培养积极参与的公民、批判性思维者和终身学习者。问题是，高等教育一直难以拿出证据证明这些目标正在实现)可知，当前高等教育的问题在于很难证实实现了其既定的目标。故选B。