阅读理解 It''s very interesting to note where the debate about diversity (多样化) is taking place. It in taking place primarily in political circles. Here at the College Fund, we have a lot of contact with top corporate (公司的) leaders; none of them is talking about getting rid of those instruments that produce diversity. In fact, they say that if their companies are to compete in the global village and in the global market place, diversity is an imperative. They also say that the need for talented, skilled Americans means we have to expand the pool of potential employees. And in locking at where birth rates are growing and at where the population is shifting, corporate America understands that expanding the pool means promoting policies that help provide skills to more minorities, more women and more immigrants. Corporate leaders know that if that doesn''t occur in our society, they will not have the engineers, the scientists, the lawyers, or the business managers they will need. Likewise, I don''t hear people in the academy saying. "Let''s go backward. Let''s go back to the good old days, when we had a meritocracy (不拘一格选人才)" ( which was never true -- we never had a meritocracy, although we''ve come closer to it in the last 30 years). I recently visited a great little college in New York where the campus has doubled its minority population in the last six years. I talked with an African American who has been a professor there for a long time, and she remembers that when she first joined the community, there were fewer than a handful of minorities on campus. Now, all of us feel the university is better because of the diversity. So where we hear this debate is primarily in political circles and in the media-not in corporate board rooms or on college campuses.

单选题 The word "imperative"( Line 4, Para. 1) most probably refers to something ________.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】词义理解题。本题询问第1段第4行中的单词imperative是什么意思。A项意为“表面的”；B项异常的；可观的”；C项可争论的”“D项“本质的；必要的”。第1段第3、4句提到，公司领导人中没有人提到要去除那些会产生多样化的东西，事实上，他们认为多样性是"imperative"，可见，imperative的意思并不是“表面上的”、“可观的”或“可争论的”，而是“必要的”。imperative本身的意思是“绝对必要的；迫切的”，因此D项为正确答案。

单选题 Which of the following groups of people still differ in their views on diversity?

单选题 High corporate leaders seem to be in favor of promoting diversity so as to________.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】辨认事实题。本题询问高级公司领导似乎赞成促进多样化以便________。A项意为“降低失业率”；B项为少数民族赢得平等的政治权利”；C项“在国际市场上具有竞争性”；D项满足不断增长的人口的需要”。第1段第4句提到，公司领导者认为，如果他们的公司要在全球市场上来竞争，多样化是绝对必要的，因此C项为正确答案。

单选题 It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】事实推理题。本题询问从文章中我们可以推断出________。A项意为“没有多样化，不拘一格降人才就不可能实现”；B项美国的政治圈内将不会接受多样化”;C项“多样化将不可能发生在美国媒体之中”D项少数民族只能进入没有多样化之争的领域”。第1段最后一句提到，公司领导知道如果没有多样化，就不会有他们所需要的工程师、科学家、律师、经理等，因此A项的说法是正确的。文中提到政治圈内和媒体上对多样化有争论，但并没有说政治圈内不会接受多样化或多样化不可能发生在媒体之中，而D项的说法在文章中根本没有提到。

单选题 According to the passage diversity can be achieved in American society by ________.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】归纳推理题。本题询问根据文章的观点，在美国社会中通过________能够实现多样化。A项意为“扩大潜在的劳动力的来源”；B项推行提供雇员以技术的政策”；C项“培训更多的工程师、科学家、律师和商务经理”；D项“为所有人，不论种族和性别，提供教育”。第1段提到，企业领导者认为多样化是必要的，对有才能、有技术的人才的需求要求其扩大潜在劳动力的来源，而为了扩大来源，就必须推行使得更多的少数民族、更多的妇女和移民获得技术的政策，D项概括了这两方面的内容，因此为正确答案。