After visiting Widener University and learning about its program requiring 300 hours of community service in the surrounding poor city of Chester, Pennsylvania, Anna Miller told her father that she would not go anywhere else. Miller was looking for a college experience that was【C1】______on both meaning and action. "I was especially【C2】______to this program because it is much easier to make a lasting change in a community when you have the【C3】______of the administration of the school," said the 20-year-old from East Prospect, Pennsylvania. Widener is not【C4】______in its creative curriculum: a number of schools now include community service as part of class work During the 1960s and 1970s, universities were often the【C5】______of student protests, characterized as ivory-tower institutions【C6】______the greater problems in society.【C7】______these days, many universities are【C8】______the forefront of encouraging students to【C9】______social change. "It"s very【C10】______, at all different kinds of colleges, from small liberal-arts colleges to big universities and community colleges," says Debra Humphreys, a spokesperson for the Association of American Colleges and Universities. According to a 2009【C11】______by the AACU, at least 68 percent of its members are including credit-bearing courses that【C12】______service learning. Colleges and universities are【C13】______community service with every type of subject. At the University of Pennsylvania, students can take an environmental-studies class where they identify sources of lead, gather samples of soil, dust, and paint, and map the risk of lead【C14】______in surrounding West Philadelphia areas. Last year【C15】______1,800 students elected to take at least one of the 60 "academically based community service" courses offered through the Netter Center for Community Partnerships. At Bryn Mawr College, math professor Victor Don-nay links math to projects【C16】______sustainability, like the savings from eliminating dining trays in dorm cafeterias. It"s【C17】______to see how math can be used to make a difference in the world, Donnay says. "As they did the projects, the【C18】______of effort they put in and their【C19】______for figuring out these problems was much higher than in a【C20】______class."
单选题
【C1】
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析：前面讲到当得知怀德纳大学的课程规划要求学生进行300个小时的社区服务后，米勒就选定了这所大学，可见她希望的大学是对理论和实践都并重的。be heavy on“在……严厉，严格”。故选B项heavy。
单选题
【C2】
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】解析：要求300个小时的杜区服务的这一计划显然吸引到很多学生前来就读，空格后的because还给出了理由。故选C项attracted“吸引”，be attracted to sth．为固定用法，意为“被某物迷住，吸引住”。