北京专用02 阅读培优小卷-2023年高一英语寒假培优阅读类提升小卷（多地区）

2023年高一英语寒假作业 阅读培优小卷 北京专用02 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 A （2022春·北京·高一首都师范大学附属中学） Between the last application season and the current one, Swarthmore College, a school nationally well-known for its academic strictness, changed the requirements for students for admission into its next freshman class. It made filling out the proper forms easier. Swarthmore is hardly alone in its desire to eliminate(清除) obstacles for a bounty of applicants. Over the last decade, many elite colleges have adjusted their applications in ways that remove disincentives(抑制因素) and maximize the likelihood that the number of students contesting to get in remains robust-or, even better, grows larger. In one sense, that’s a commendably egalitarian(平等主义的) approach and a sensible attempt to be sure that no qualified candidate is missed. But there’s often a less pure motive in play. In our increasingly status-oriented society, a school’s reputation is improved by a low acceptance rate, which can even influence how U.S. News & World Report ranks it. And unless a school is shrinking the size of its student body, the only way to bring its acceptance rate down is to get its number of applicants up. So, many colleges methodically generate interest only to frustrate it. They woo applicants for the purpose of turning them down. And there can be other justifications for what looks like a loosening of application demands. Smith College and several other similarly prominent colleges no longer require the SAT or ACT, and Kathleen McCarney, the president of Smith College, said that that’s not a bid for more applicants. It’s a recognition that top scores on those tests correlate with high family income and may say more about an applicant’s economic advantages—including, say, private SAT tutoring—than about their academic potential. Jim Bock, Swarthmore’s dean of admissions, said that by lightening the essay load for its current applicants, the colleg