单选题 Questions 57 to 60 are based on the following passage: One of the most interesting paradoxes in America today is that Harvard University, the oldest institutionof higher learning in the United States, is now engaged in a serious debate about what a university should be,and whether it is measuring up. Like the Roman Catholic Church and other ancient institutions, it is asking--still in private rather thanin public whether its past assumptions about faculty, authority, admissions, courses of study, are reallyrelevant to the problems of the 1990's. Should Harvard --- or any other university --- be an intellectual sanctuary, apart from the political andsocial revolution of the age, or should it be a laboratory for experimentation with these political and socialrevolutions; or even an engine of the revolution? This is what is being discussed privately in the bigclapboard houses of faculty members around the Harvard Yard. The issue was defined by Waiter Lippmann, a distinguished Harvard graduate, several years ago. "If the universities are to do their work," he said, "they must be independent and they must bedisinterested...They are places to which men can turn for judgments which are unbiased by partisanship andspecial interest. Obviously, the moment the universities fall under political control, or under the control ofprivate interests, or the moment they themselves take a hand in politics and the leadership of government,their value as independent and disinterested sources of judgment is impaired...' This is part of the argument that is going on at Harvard today. Another part is the argument of the militant and even many moderate students: that a university is the keeper of our ideals and morals, andshould not be "disinterested" but activist in bringing the nation's ideals and actions together. Harvard's men of today seem more troubled and less sure about personal, political and academicpurpose than they did at the beginning. They are not even clear about how they should debate and resolvetheir problems, but they are struggling with them privately, and how they come out is bound to influenceAmerican universities and political life in the 1990's.

单选题 The issues in the debate on Harvard's goals are whether the universities should remain independent ofour society and its problems, and whether they should ___.

单选题 The word "paradox" in paragraph 1 is___.

单选题 The word "sanctuary" in paragraph 3 is___.

单选题 In the author's judgment, the ferment going on at Harvard ___.