Passage 3
Engineering students are supposed to be examples of practicality, and rationality, but when it comes to my college education I am an idealist and a fool. In high school I wanted to be an electrical engineer and. of course, any sensible student with my aims would have chosen a college with a large engineering department, famous reputation and lots of good labs and research equipment. But that's not what I did.
I chose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts university that doesn't even offer a major in electrical engineering. Obviously, this was not a practical choice; I came here for more noble reasons. I wanted a broad education that would provide me with flexibility and a value system to guide me in my career. I wanted to open my eyes and expand my vision by interacting with people who weren't studying science or engineering. My parents, teachers and other adults praised me for such a sensible choice. They told me I was wise and mature beyond my 18 years, and I believed them.
I headed off to college, feeling sure I was going to have an advantage over those students who went to big engineering “factories” where they didn't care if you had values or were flexible. I was going to be a complete engineer: technical genius and sensitive humanist all in one.
Now I'm not so sure. Somewhere along the way my noble ideals crashed into reality, as all noble ideals eventually do. After three years of struggling to balance math, physics and engineering courses with liberal arts courses, I have learned there are reasons why few engineering students try to reconcile engineering with liberal-arts courses in college.
The reality that has blocked my path to become the typical successful student is that engineering and the liberal arts simply don't mix as easily as I assumed in high school. Individually they shape a person in very different ways; together they threaten to confuse. The struggle to reconcile the two fields of study is difficult.
The author chose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts university because he ________.
在第三段中作者表示“I was going to be a complete engineer：technical genius and sensitive humanist all in one.”作者选择艺术类院校读书是因为他想成为一个把工程技术和人文科学完美结合的优秀人才。故选B。
According to the author, by interacting with people who study liberal arts, engineering students can ________.
根据题目中的“by interacting with people who study liberal arts”查找到第二段第四句“I wanted to open my eyes and expand my vision by interacting with people who weren't studying science or engineering。我想 通过与非理工科的人们相互影响来开阔我的视野”，可推断出D选项“开阔他们的视野”正确。故选D。
In the eyes of the author, a successful engineering student is expected ________.
根据第三段中的“I was going to be a complete engineer, technical genius and sensitive humanist all in one.”可知，作者认为一个成功的理工科学生应该是有着宽阔视野的技术天才。故选D。
The author's experience shows that he was ________.
作者由雄心勃勃、与众不同、理想化的选择开始，发现现实中并不容易实现，并不成功。可见 这种做法是不切实际的。故选C。
The word “they” in “...together they threaten to confuse.” (Para. 5) refers to ________.
根据最后一段的第一、二句“...engineering and the liberal arts simply don't mix as easily as I assumed high school...together they threaten to confuse”可知，“they”指的是“engineering and the liberal arts”。故选A。