Is Stanford still a university? The Wall Street Journal recently reported that more than a dozen students have left school to work on a new technology start-up called Clinkle. Faculty members have【C1】______, the former dean of Stanford's business school is on the board, and one computer-science professor who taught several of the employees now owns【C2】______. The founder of Clinkle was an undergraduate advisee of the president of the university, John Hennessy, who has also been advising the company. Clinkle【C3】______mobile payments, and, if all goes well, there will be many payments to many people on【C4】______. Maybe, as it did with Google, Stanford will get stock grants. There are【C5】______of interest here; and questions of power dynamics. The leadership of a university has encouraged an【C6】______in which students drop out in order to do something that will【C7】______the faculty. Stanford has been【C8】______in this direction for a while. As Ken Auletta reported in this magazine a year ago, the【C9】______between Stanford and Silicon Valley are【C10】______. Federal Telegraph was started by a Stanford grad a hundred and four years ago. William Hewlett and David Packard started inventing things as students, as did the Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Stanford feeds Silicon Valley, and Silicon Valley【C11】______Stanford. You can't have one【C12】______the other. But what's the point of having a great university among the palm trees【C13】______students feel like they have to treat their professors as【C14】______investors, found companies before they can legally drink, and drop out in an effort to get rich fast? Shouldn't it be a place to drift, to think, to read, to meet new people, and to work at whatever【C15】______you? And Stanford has, in its day, produced a great variety of graduates: hippies, novelists, politicians,【C16】______dropouts, and, of course, athletes. Now,【C17】______, it seems like all the countless identities are being included. Students can still study Chaucer, and there are still lovely palm trees. But the center of【C18】______at the university appears to have【C19】______. The school now【C20】______a giant tech incubator with a football team.
单选题
【C1】
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析：上文提到有十几名学生离开斯坦福到Clinkle公司工作。本句顺接上文，谈到教职工(Faculty members)、商学院前院长及一名计算机教授也参与其中。B项invested“投资，入股”，符合语义，且与is on the board(担任董事会成员)语义对应。
【答案解析】解析：联邦电报公司和惠普公司的创始人William Hewlett and David Packard、谷歌创始人Larry Page and Sergey Brin均是斯坦福大学的校友，而这三家公司均是出自硅谷的知名企业，可见斯坦福和硅谷的关系应该是密不可分的，故选择B项deep“深的”。
【答案解析】解析：空格前的内容为该句主句部分，空格后为从句，从句指出学生们辍学去创业致富(dropout…to get rich)，主句提出设问：这么做的意义何在?从逻辑上判断该从句应是主句的条件。故选C项if“如果”。
单选题
【C14】
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】解析：本空格需要填入一个形容词修饰investors(投资人)，说明辍学创业的学生与导师的可能关系。文章首段对此有描述，如教工on the board等，因此A项potential“潜在的，可能的”为正确答案．表明导师是潜在的投资人。
单选题
【C15】
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析：本句顺接上文，用反问句的形式表明大学本应该是什么样的地方。to work at whatever．．．you与to think，to read，to meet new people是并列的成分。本空格所在的宾语从句应指出学生在大学里应为什么而努力(work)。B项inspires“鼓舞”，常常带有“启迪，启发”的意思，符合语义逻辑。
单选题
【C16】
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】解析：本句提到斯坦福大学曾为社会输出过各类毕业生，其中包括嬉皮士、小说家、政治家、运动员。本段第一句提到学生们辍学去淘金致富(drop out in an effort to get rich fast)。此空格需要填入一个形容词修饰dropouts(辍学生)，这些辍学生应与上述的优秀人才可以相提并论。D项brilliant“杰出的，才华出众的”符合语义。