单选题 Crossing Wesleyan university's campus usually requires walking over colorful messages chalked on the ground. They can be as innocent as meeting announcements, but in a growing number of cases the language is meant to shock. It's not uncommon, for instance, to see lewd (淫荡的) references to professors' sexual preferences scrawled across a path or the mention of the word Nig' that African-American students say make them feel uncomfortable.
In response, officials and students at schools are now debating ways to lead their communities away from forms of expression that offend or harass (侵扰). In the process, they're butting up against the difficulties of regulating speech at institutions that pride themselves on fostering open debate.
Mr. Bennet of Wesleyan says he had gotten used to seeing occasional chalkings filled with four-letter words. Campus tradition made any horizontal surface not attached to a building a potential billboard. But when chalkings began taking on a more threatening and lewd tone, Bennet decided to act. "This is not acceptable in a workplace and not acceptable in an institution of higher learning," Bennet says. For now, Bonnet is seeking input about what kind of message-posting policy the school should adopt. The student assembly recently passed a resolution saying the "right to speech comes with implicit responsibilities to respect community standards."
Other public universities have confronted problems this year while considering various ways of regulating where students can express themselves. At Harvard Law School, the recent controversy was more linked to the academic setting. Minority students there are seeking to curb what they consider harassing speech in the wake of a series of incidents last spring.
At a meeting held by the "Committee on Healthy Diversity" last week, the school's Black Law Students Association endorsed a policy targeting discriminatory harassment. It would trigger a review by school officials if there were charges of "severe or pervasive conduct" by students or faculty. The policy would cover harassment based on, but not limited to, factors such as race, religion, creed, sexual orientation, national origin, and ethnicity (种族划分).
Boston attorney Harvey Silverglate, says other schools have adopted similar harassment policies that are actually speech codes, punishing students for raising certain ideas. "Restricting students from saying anything that would be perceived as very unpleasant by another student continues uninterrupted," says Silverglate, who attended the Harvard Law town meeting last week.

单选题 What is the typical scene found in the campus of Wesleyan University?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 文章第一句就告诉我们,穿过卫斯理公会大学的校园,我们会跨过五颜六色的用粉笔书写的讯息。
单选题 From the passage we can see that ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 文章开头提到满地的讯息鱼龙混杂,并出现了越来越多的色情和有种族偏见倾向的讯息。第二段说为了回应这一现象,学校的学生和官员们正在讨论避免不良讯息的方法。关键部分是“... debating ways to lead their communities away from...”,即“把……从……引开”。
单选题 Mr. Bennet ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 文章第三段说,贝内特先生正在寻求对在校园中书写讯息应采取的对策 (Bennet is seeking input about what kind of message-posting policy the school should adopt)。这句话与C项相符。
单选题 The essential of the problem is to ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题涉及从事实到实质的归纳提高问题。文章第四段介绍了各个学校的情况,其中提到哈佛大学法学院的辩论更多的涉及学术环境的问题(more linked to the academic setting)。
单选题 What is the policy adopted by many schools after heated debating?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 文章最后两段显示?有的学校提出的遏制歧视性的、侵扰性的言论的政策得到了其他学校的赞同。并指出,这实际上是规范言论的法律,违反者会受到处罚。A项中 clamp down意为“取缔,遏制”。