4. American colleges and universities failed to graduate half of their four-year degree candidates because _______.

　　A. most of them lack high-quality faculties

　　B. the interests of most faculty members lie in research

　　C. there are not enough incentives for students to study hard

　　D. they attach greater importance to research and publication than to teaching

　　Best Answer:D

　　詳解：答案D。文章第二段講述了學(xué)校只重視科研而忽視教學(xué)(這正是選項(xiàng)D的意思)導(dǎo)致危機(jī)產(chǎn)生，所以Not surprisingly, over the last twenty years colleges and universities have failed to graduate half of their four-year degree candidates，故D項(xiàng)正確。文中并未提到學(xué)校沒有高水平的教員，也未提到學(xué)生因沒有足夠動(dòng)力而不努力學(xué)習(xí)的問題，故A、C兩項(xiàng)均不是答案;從文章最后三句話可知教師更多的是對(duì)教學(xué)而不是對(duì)科研感興趣，他們重視科研是因?yàn)閷W(xué)校重視科研，而不是他們興趣之真正所在，因此B項(xiàng)也是錯(cuò)誤的。故本題選D項(xiàng)。

　　5.It can be inferred from the passage that high-quality college education calls for ________

　　A. putting academic work in the proper context

　　B. a commitment to students and effective teaching

　　C. the practice of putting learning to productive ends

　　D. dedication to research in frontier areas of knowledge

　　Best Answer:B

　　詳解：答案B。從文章第二段可知要想有高質(zhì)量的教育，就要重視高質(zhì)量的教學(xué)，而獻(xiàn)身教學(xué)的教員如不搞科研便會(huì)失去許多好處，這一點(diǎn)促使學(xué)生不能得到good teaching，這正是教學(xué)的失誤，要改變這一點(diǎn)，必須向?qū)W生負(fù)責(zé)，提供高質(zhì)量的教學(xué)，故B項(xiàng)正確。A、C兩項(xiàng)是對(duì)文章相應(yīng)句子的片面理解，都不是作者文中提到的應(yīng)重視教學(xué)的觀點(diǎn)，D項(xiàng)顯然與作者應(yīng)重視教學(xué)的觀點(diǎn)相反。因此本題應(yīng)選B項(xiàng)。