四六级考试

【单选题】One of the most interesting paradoxes inAmerica today is that Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, is now engaged in a serious debate about what a university should be, and whether it is measuring up (符合标准).
Like the RomanCatholicChurch and other ancient institutions, it is asking—still in private rather than in public—whether its past assumptions about faculty, authority, admissions, courses of study, are really relevant to the problems of our society.
Should Harvard—or any other university—be an intellectual sanctuary, apart from the political and social revolution of the age, or should it be a laboratory for experimentation with these political and social revolutions; or even an engine of the revolution This is what is being discussed privately in the big clapboard (楔形板) houses of faculty members around the Harvard YarD、
The issue was defined by Walter Lippmann, a distinguished Harvard graduate, many years ago.
"If the universities are to do their work," he said, "they must be independent and they must be disinteresteD、.. They are places to which men can turn for unbiased judgments. Obviously, the moment the universities fall under political control, or under the control of private interests, or the moment they themselves take a hand in politics and the leadership of government, their value as independent and disinterested sources of judgment is impaireD、.."
This is part of the argument that is going on at Harvard today.Another part is the argument of the militant and even many moderated students: that a university is the keeper of our ideals and morals, and should not be "disinterested" but activist in bringing the Nation’s ideals and actions together.
Harvard’s men of today seem more troubled and less sure about personal, political and academic purpose than they did at the beginning. They are not even clear about how they should debate and resolve their problems, but they are struggling with them privately, and how they come out is bound to influenceAmerican university and political life in the 21st century.
The word "sanctuary" in paragraph 3 refers to ______.

A、a holy place dedicated to a certain god
B．a temple or nunnery of the middle age
C．a certain place you can hide in and avoid mishaps
D．an academy for intelligent people
网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
[解析] 根据题干信息“sanctuary”in paragraph 3可将答案定位到第三段第一行。 sanctuary本意是“圣殿”，在中世纪一般是指某些教堂或者修道院，可以充当躲避任何政府惩罚和迫害的避难所。引申义即是：一个人们可以躲进去以避过灾祸的地方。文中使用的就是这个意思。从该词后面的apart from the political and social revolution of the age我们也能得出一些线索。故选C。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>