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As students primp and preen to wow their favorite colleges， there\\'s one characteristic they can\\'t control： their race. That\\'s one reason voters， courts and politicians in six states have outlawed racial preferences in college admissions， while other colleges， fearful of lawsuits， play down their affirmative-action efforts these days. But make no mistake： race still matters. How much depends on the school and the state.

In Texas， public universities have managed to counteract the effect of racial-preference bans by automatically admitting the top 10% of the graduating class of every high school， including those schools where most students are minorities. But Rice University in Houston， private and highly selective， has had to reinvent its admissions strategies to maintain the school\\'s minority enrollment. Each February， 80 to 90 black， Hispanic and Native American kids visit Rice on an expenses-paid trip. Rice urges counselors from high schools with large minority populations to nominate qualified students. And in the fall， Rice sends two recruiters on the road to find minority applicants; each recruiter visits about 80 predominantly black or Hispanic high schools. Two weeks ago， Rice recruiter Tamara Siler dropped in on Westlake High in Atlanta， where 99% of the 1，296 students are black. Siler went bearing literature and advice， and though only two kids showed up， she said， “I\\'m pleased I got two.”

Rice has also resorted to some almost comical end-runs around the spirit of the law. The university used to award a yearly scholarship to a Mexican-American student; now it goes to a student who speaks Spanish really well. Admissions officers no longer know an applicant\\'s race. But a new essay question asks about each student\\'s “background” and “cultural traditions.” When Rice officials read applications， they look for “diverse life experiences” and what they awkwardly call “overcome students，” who have triumphed over hardship.

Last spring， admissions readers came across a student whose SAT score was lower than 1，200 and who did not rank in the top 10% of her class. Numerically speaking， she lagged far behind most accepted applicants. But her essay and recommendations indicated a strong interest in civil rights and personal experience with racial discrimination. She was admitted. “All the newspapers say affirmative action is done，” says a veteran counselor at a large New York City high school. “But nothing has changed. I have a [minority] kid at Yale with an SAT score in the high 900s.”

While minority admissions at the University of California system overall have dipped only slightly since a ban on affirmative action took effect in 1998， they have plummeted at the most selective campuses. At Berkeley， for example， the class entering this fall included 608 Chicano students， vs. 1，013 in 1997. In response， the elite schools have moved aggressively to recruit at minority high schools——and even to improve the performance of students who are graduating from them. This year the U.C. system will spend $250 million on outreach， from installing tutors at low-income schools to inviting high school teachers to summer calculus seminars.

注(1)：本文选自Time;10/23/2000，? p77;

注(2)：本文习题命题模仿对象2001年真题text 2和2002年真题text 2第2题(5)

1. Affirmative action is something ___________.

[A] that guarantees students of different races to be admitted equally

[B] American citizens fight against because it discriminates minority students

[C] colleges take to give preference to minority students in college admission

[D] favored by American colleges yet unpopular with American public

2. Rice University sent two recruiters to find minority applicants because _________.

[A] Rice wanted to maintain minority enrollment

[B] minority students have better school performance

[C] Rice has a large minority population

[D] Rice is famous for admitting minority students

3. The writer mentioned Rice‘s some comic end-runs around the spirit of the law to show

that_____________.

[A] Rice abides by the law strictly

[B] Rice deals with students in a comic way

[C] Rice prefers minority students

[D] Rice has its own ways of dealing with the law

4. It seems that minority students _________.

[A] are still benefiting from affirmative action

[B] have lower SAT scores

[C] are often admitted by universities because they have unique racial experience

[D] lag far behind than other students in school performance

5. The word “plummeted” (Line 2， Paragraph 5) most probably means_________.?

[A] doubled

[B] risen

[C] stayed the same

[D] decreased

答案：C A D A D

题目分析

1. 答案为C，属推理判断题。根据第一段中的上下文，美国六个州制定法律，规定“racial preferences in college admissions”为非法，继而说美国的学校为了免于诉讼就减少了“affirmation action”的努力，可见“affirmation action”应该是指在大学入学方面给与少数民族学生的照顾政策。

2. 答案为A，属事实细节题。第二段第四行讲述了Rice University不得不重新制定策略“to maintain the school‘s minority enrollment”，下面派招生员到各处招收少数族裔申请者则是实现这一目的的一个方式。可见答案是A.

3. 答案为D，属推理判断题。文章第二段提到Rice University为了应对新法律不得不重新制定策略来保证学校少数族裔学生入学。接着在第三段中举了三个根法律玩擦边球的例子：把原来给墨西哥裔学生的年度奖学金变成给西班牙语流利的学生(墨西哥裔学生的母语多位西班牙语);虽然不知道申请人的种族，但申请者要回答的论文问题却是“背景”和“文化传统”，而且招生人员看重的是“不同的体验”和“克服困难”的学生(少数族裔学生通过回答这些问题就可以轻易地让招生人员把他们挑出来)。可见Rice大学自有一套对付法律的办法。

4. 答案为A，属推理判断题。第四段举了两个大学入学考试成绩不高但依然被录取的少数族裔学生的例子，接着引用一位中学顾问的话：“所有的报纸都说平权措施(affirmative action)要过时了，但一切都是老样子。”来说明少数族裔的学生依然从平权措施中受益。

5. 答案为D，属猜词题。这个词的意思可以从下文中给出的例子猜测出来。文中说：以伯克利为例，今年秋季入学的班级有608名奇卡诺裔学生，而在1997年，这个数字是1013人。可见少数族裔的入学人数是大幅下降了。

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