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一个人真正的“精神饥饿感”应该从中小学时期开始培养。现阶段我国必须在学校教育阶段“拯救阅读”,尤其是儿童阅读。“‘阅读是消灭无知、消灭贫穷、消灭绝望的武器’。一个民族精神境界的高下取决于阅读的水平;一个人的阅读史,就是他的精神发育史;一个没有阅读的学校永远不可能有真正的教育,而没有阅读的‘学习’只能称作‘训练’”。 对这段话主旨的理解,正确的一项是( )。

A.是否从儿时就养成阅读的习惯,将在很大程度上决定一个人的精神境界

B.阅读应当成为学校教育的重要内容

C.“学习”与“训练”的最大区别在于“训练”仅仅是技能的培养

D.阅读是培养“精神饥饿感”的最佳方法

答案

参考答案:B

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There is no question that the academic enterprise has become increasingly global, particularly in the sciences. Nearly three million students now study outside their home countriesa 57% increase in the last decade. Foreign students now dominate many U.S. doctoral programs, accounting for 64% of Ph. D. s in computer science, for example.
Faculty members are on the move, too. Half of the world’s top physicists no longer work in their native countries. And major institutions such as New York University are creating branch campuses in the Middle East and Asia. There are now 162 satellite campuses worldwide, an increase of 43% in just the past three years.
At the same time, growing numbers of traditional source countries for students from South Korea to Saudi Arabia (沙特阿拉伯), are trying to improve both the quantity and quality of their own degrees, engaging in a fierceand expensiverace to recruit students and create world-class research universities of their own.
Such competition has led to considerable hand-wringing in the West. During a 2008 campaign stop, for instance, then—candidate Barack Obama expressed alarm about the threat that such academic competition poses to U. S. competitiveness. Such concerns are not limited to the United States. In some countries, worries about educational competition and brain drains have led to academic protectionism. India, for instance, places legal and bureaucratic barriers in front of Western universities that want to set up satellite campuses to enroll local students.
Perhaps some of the anxiety over the new global academic enterprise is understandable, particularly in a period of massive economic uncertainty. But educational protectionism is as big a mistake as trade protectionism is. The globalization of higher education should be embraced, not fearedincluding in the United States. There is every reason to believe that the worldwide competition for human talent, the race to produce innovative research, the push to extend university campuses to multiple countries, and the rush to train talented graduates who can strengthen increasingly knowledge-based economies will be good for the United States, as well.

The word "hand-wringing" (Para. 4) probably means "______"

A. anger
B. worries
C. interests
D. delight

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