单选题 The word "globalization" usually conjures up images of globe-spanning companies and distance-destroying technologies. Its enablers are the laws of comparative advantage and economies of scale.
In The Great Brain Race Ben Wildavsky points to another mighty agent o globalization: universities. These were some of the world's first "global" institutions. In the Middle Ages great universities such as Paris and Bologna attracted "wandering scholars" from across Europe. In the 19th century Germany's research universities attracted scholars from across the world. In the early 20th century philanthropists such as Cecil Rhodes and William Harkness established scholarships to foster deeper links between countries. By the 1960s globe-trotting professors were so commonplace that they bad become the butt of jokes. (What is the difference between God and professor so and so? God is everywhere. Professor so and so is everywhere but here. )
Universities are obsessed by the global marketplace for students and professors. They are trying to attract as many students from abroad as possible (not least because foreign students usually pay full fees). Nearly 3 million students now spend some time studying in foreign countries, a number that has risen steeply in recent years. Universities are also setting up overseas. New York University has opened a branch in Abu Dhabi. Six American universities have created a higher-education supermarket in Qatar. Almost every university worth its name has formed an alliance with a leading Chinese institution.
But globalization is going deeper than just the competition for talent: a growing number of countries are trying to create an elite group of "global universities" that are capable of competing with the best American institutions. China and India are focusing resources on a small group. The French and German governments are doing hattie with academic egalitarians in an attempt to create European Ivy Leagues. Behind all this is the idea that world-class universities can make a disproportionate contribution to economic growth.
This is a fascinating story. But Mr. Wildavsky, a former education reporter who now works for both the Kauffman Foundation and the Brookings Institution, is too earnest a writer to make the best of it. He wastes too much ink summarising research papers and quoting "experts" uttering banalities. And he fails to point out the humour of sabbatical man jet-setting hither and thither to discuss such staples of modern academic life as poverty and inequality. Mr. Wildavsky should spend less time with his fellow think-tankers (who are mesmerised by the idea of a global knowledge economy) and more talking to students, who experience the disadvantages as well as the advantages of the new cult of globalization at first hand.

单选题 The phrase "globe-trotting professors" (Line 5, Paragraph 2) refers to teachers who______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解题思路] 文章第二段描述了globe-trotting professors。第二段首先提出了一个新概念“全球化大学”，接着介绍随之出现的“流浪学者”——大学全球化的产物，而glob-trotting professors也是大学全球化的产物之一，所以这两个所表达的意思相近，都是指在全世界各地奔波的教授。他们之所以奔波，是因为他们同好几所大学都保持工作关系，trot有“小跑，奔波”之意，与名词globe组成合成词就可以理解为“在全球范围内奔波”，故[A]符合题意。[B]在“一所大学”不符合globe的意思。[C]和[D]在文章中未提及。

单选题 The author cited New York University as an example in the third paragraph to______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解题思路] 解答本题需要综合理解第三段。文章第三段首先介绍了大学招收的国际学生越来越多，接着讲述纽约大学在阿布达比设立分校，接下来又谈到好几所美国大学也在卡塔尔开设分校，而且几乎每所名校都跟中国一流大学结为联盟，这些都说明全球性大学越来越普遍，因此它的发展已经势不可挡，故[A]正确。文章中并没有赞美的话语，故排除[B]和[C]。本段第二句小括号中指出，外国学生通常支付全额费用，但是纽约大学的例子并未涉及它是如何获取利益的，故[D]曲解了文章意思。

单选题 The purpose of setting up an outstanding group of "global universities" is to ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解题思路] 本题考查打造“全球大学”精英团队的目的，由题干中的"global universities"定位到文章第四段首句。该句指出越来越多的国家致力于打造“全球大学”精英团队。接着以中国、印度、法国和德国为例具体说明打造“全球大学”精英团队的思想已经非常普遍。该段末句指出了其流行的目的——世界顶级的大学可以给经济增长带来无尽的推动力，即[D]所述。该段首句明确指出学术全球化的发展不仅仅是单纯的人才竞争，然后举出“全球大学”精英团队建设的例子，由此可推断"global universities"的建设并非为了competition for excellent students，由此排除[A]。同样[B]和[C]也只是人才竞争的一个方面，也不是正确答案。

单选题 Which one is NOT the shortcoming of Mr. Wildavsky's writing?

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解题思路] 由题干中的the shortcoming of Mr. Wildavsky's writing可知本题考查对威尔达夫斯基作品的评价，由此可定位至文章末段。本段末句指出，威尔达夫斯基应该少花时间和他的智囊团在一起，这是作者的一个建议，是教授应当采取的，不是缺点，故[B]符合题意。本段第三句指出，他在概述研究报告时过于冗长，引经据典过多以致庸俗，这是[A]和[C]涉及的内容。第二句中的“因描写太过详尽而致拖沓”是[D]表述的内容。