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Though left and right alike declare that birth shouldn’t determine where you go to university, a fierce debate still rages about

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问题     Though left and right alike declare that birth shouldn’t determine where you go to university, a fierce debate still rages about Oxbridge access. This time, complaints come from the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC), which represents private schools, in response to proposals from the Office for Students to increase the number of disadvantaged students studying at England’s elite universities by 6,500 each year from 2020.
    To illustrate the farcicality of these claims, consider the current proportion of poorer students at universities such as Oxford, which counts 15 students from the UK’s wealthiest neighborhoods for everyone from the most disadvantaged. The HMC claims, unreasonably and even somewhat hysterically, that the move will squeeze out middle-class students by discriminating against private schools, insisting that admissions should be focused on " truly suitable students" rather than class.
    The private sector accounts for 7％ of all schools, yet its graduates already enjoy a wildly disproportionate amount of airtime; they account for 65％ of senior judges, 29％ of MPs and 43％ of top journalists. For the minority of working-class applicants who do make it to elite universities, the entrenched prejudices they face can be debilitating. I arrived at Oxford from a state school in Birmingham and spent years attempting to shake off my sense of socioeconomic difference.
    We should interrogate what the HMC means by that sticky term "suitability". The very notion of intelligence is confused with the hallmarks of a private education. The confidence of a privileged education often carries you further in a university admissions process than determination or rigor. Private schools furnish children with the rhetorical skills and professional veneer to ensure that questions of competence and ability never really matter. Given how successful the private sector has been in supplanting our understanding of intelligence with these qualities, making admissions processes fairer and more representative of society won’t just be about numbers; it will require a radical cultural shift.
    At the root of the frustrations about Oxbridge access is the idea that people should have the freedom to buy their offspring access to the upper echelons of the professional society through sending them to private schools, without acknowledging the inequality and discrimination inherent in that aspiration. Among those angered by the news that fewer privileged students will be offered Oxbridge places in the future, I’m sure there will be many who consider themselves fair-minded and progressive.
    But discussions of inequality, lack of diversity and under representation are futile if they fail to acknowledge the one factor underscoring and exacerbating them all class.
Proposals from the Office for Students aim to________.
选项 A、guarantee the right of students with a deprived background
B、raise the number of disadvantaged students to 6,500
C、retain the influence of birth on students’ Oxbridge access
D、help private schools recruit better students
答案A
解析 细节题。根据题干定位到第一段。该段的开头就提到“尽管左右派双方都宣称出身不应该决定你上哪所大学，但有关牛津剑桥大学的入学机会的激烈争论仍然不断。针对学生办公室提出的要增加贫困学生招生比例的议案，校长会议代表私立学校提出抗议”，故我们可以推断，这次的议案是为了保障贫困学生的权利，故答案选A项。而C项与原文意思相反，因为此举是为了弱化个人出身的影响，而非保持这种影响力。D项也与原文意思相反，如果是为了帮助私立学校招募更好的学生，那私立学校就不会抗议了。故排除选项故C、D项。B项对应第一段最后一句by 6500“增加6500个”，6500为差值，不是增加到6500个。
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