74. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

   A. The brightest students are not at all hungry for stronger universities.

   B. About 76% of first-year students got an award of $ 20,000 per year.

C. Public colleges never offer discounts to the students.

D. Colleges should concentrate more on the services to keep the students   

73. The underlined words “flip side” in the last paragraph probably mean “_______”.

   A. advantage    B. disadvantage     C. bad practice    D. good function

72. From the first paragraph, we can judge that _______.

   A. all the universities don’t offer tuition discounts.

   B. Ivy and other top colleges offer financial aid to the high achievers

   C. the needy students get more money from the universities

   D. the graduation rates of the students from highly selected schools fall

About 76% of first-year students got some form of discount this year at 331 private schools. Average award per student: $7,000. At small schools with tuition under about $20,000, the average discount is even higher, with some schools returning over half their tuition.                                                          

Carnegie Mellon even tells students it will "negotiate(讨价还价)" and perhaps match financial-aid packages if kids are offered bigger awards at other schools. Much as banks and insurers offer special rates to their best customers, schools are giving the biggest breaks to their top students. Public four-year colleges, too, are offering discounts.

The flip side of big discounts is that less money is available to improve academic programs and keep school infrastructure (基础设施) up to date. Universities that have sharply increased their tuition discount rates have seen graduation rates fall, and that's true even among highly selective schools. They get the students in the door, but don't have the services to keep them.

71. What might be the most suitable title for the passage?

   A. Chinese milk products are exported to foreign countries

   B. China faces a challenge from foreign countries in milk products.

   C. Milk scandal is taken very seriously in China.

   D. The poison milk products lead to the death of babies.

E

Hungry for the brightest students, many of the country's stronger universities are actively discounting tuition (学费). And it's the high achievers, rather than the needy students, who are getting a good chunk of the money. The practice is remarkably widespread, reaching almost all but the 30 or so Ivy and other top colleges that forbid good grades-based financial aid. Schools are also becoming more aggressive in raising their discounts. At the DePauw University Website, enter an SAT or ACT score, grade point average and class rank, and a computer program immediately tells you what kind of "award". Only "the real unlucky" pay full price any more.

70. The attitude of Anthony Hazard towards the decision to recall the milk products is that of _______.

A. disappointment     B. concern      C. disagreement    D. approval

69. From the poison milk problem, it can be inferred that ________.

       A. globalization helps China with quality of milk

       B. China is in need of international assistance to develop

       C. globalization brings both benefit and harm

       D. no other country can avoid a disaster happening in a country

68. The role of the WHO in the Chinese milk problem is to _______.

A.     help China to investigate the poison milk problem

B.      shoulder the responsibility of the poison milk problem

C.      look into the poison milk problem all by itself

D.     offer some money to help the private sector

67. In the opinion of Dr Shigeru Omi, China _______.

A.     isn’t aware of the existence of polluted milk products

B.      takes the polluted milk products for granted

C.      will solve the problem of polluted milk products quickly

D.     has no way to deal with the poison milk problem

66. The main idea of the last paragraph is ________.

A. we should try heart and soul to win what we want

B. enthusiasm can give us pleasure, though we have to sweat

C. we have not enough money to buy what we need

D. enthusiasm with sweat is what we need

D

China is working hard to deal with the polluted milk products scandal（丑闻）, which has so far left four babies dead, a senior WHO official said on Sunday.

Dr. Shigeru Omi, director of the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office, told a press conference that China is taking the issue “seriously”.

“After admitting the problem, the Chinese government is very serious about the matter and I hope the situation will be brought under control as soon as possible,” Omi said.

“A number of investigations (调查) have been started and several batches of products have been recalled. The WHO is assisting China in looking into the scandal but will not conduct its own investigations,” he said.

“Globalization means the scandal that started in China is a problem for people around the world. Every country can be affected, so the international community should work together to solve the problem,” he said.

“The poison milk problem has shown that there are still challenges for both local governments and the private sector (部门). There is large room for improvement on quality control, more money is needed at the lower level, and serious promise should come from the private sector,” Omi said.

Since the scandal broke out, 6,244 babies have fallen ill, 150 have been diagnosed with severe kidney failure, and four have died.

Anthony Hazard, a food safety specialist at the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office, said the decision by some countries to recall milk products imported from China was “reasonable”.