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  3. In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G

In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G

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问题     In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)
    Something big is up in higher education thanks to the arrival of "massive open online courses"(MOOCs), which can reach millions around the world. What most people —including university leaders—don’t yet realize is that this new way of teaching and learning, together with employers’ growing frustration with the skills of graduates, is poised to usher in a new credentialing system that may compete with college degrees within a decade. 【R1】______
    This innovation therefore has the potential to create enormous opportunities for students, employers, and star teachers even as it upends the cost structure and practices of traditional campuses.【R2】______
    Consider the first of the two converging trends. As is well known, frustration with the performance of traditional institutions is mounting. Most employers say graduates lack the skills they need. Tuition has risen far faster than inflation or household earnings for two decades. Meanwhile, the online revolution in learning is exploding. 【R3】______
    The key question is how quickly these MOOCs will offer not just a breakthrough mode of learning for the enterprising and the curious but also true credentials that students seek because employers value them. Once a sufficient infrastructure of credible exams and assessments around MOOCs is in place, we’ll enter a new world.
    In this world, students will be able to credential themselves routinely via such courses and assessments as a way to bolster their resumes. 【R4】______ Once this challenge to the monopoly of today’s accrediting institutions begins, a big part of higher education may become vulnerable to the kind of disruption the music industry experienced a decade ago, as centrally controlled and distributed albums gave way, thanks to technology, to customized playlists assembled by individuals.
    This won’t happen overnight, hut it won’t take forever, either. If a nontrivial portion of higher education is destined to be challenged this way in the next decade, what will that mean for society? And what should universities do? 【R5】______     Today these business models truly run in full range. On one end are graduate schools that charge full freight for online degrees. On the other end of the spectrum, online learning platforms may be fueling an expectation that education should be "free," with students paying o-ver time for the exams or certificates that prove their value to employers. Maybe that’s a promising model, but the notion of free could as easily prove a risky path that undermines the economics of creating new courses. That’s why L. Rafael Reif, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, suggested recently that online students should pay modest fees to help the physical university sustain its mission.
[A]When assessors persuade employers that these credentials are reliable predictors of workplace success, employers will have the confidence to give job candidates "credit" for work done outside the officially accredited institutions of higher education.
[B]Still, university leaders seeking to fulfill their mission in an era of unprecedented change would do well to develop some guiding principles to shape their response.
[C]At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, for example, tuition is more than $ 90,000 for an online MBA.
[D]This emerging delivery regime is more than just a distribution mechanism; done right, it promises students faster, more consistent engagement with high-quality content, as well as measurable results.
[E]Coursera, a for-profit venture that taps professors and lecturers from 62 universities boasts many courses with 50,000 to 100,000 users who pay nothing for access to the best professors in the world; overall, the company has more than 2. 7 million registered students, who take at least one course.
[F]The answers depend largely on what online business models and motives evolve to govern the roles of teaching talent, colleges, assessment firms, and other key players across the education landscape.
[G]Capturing the promise of this new world without losing the best of the old will require fresh ways to square radically expanded access to world-class instruction with motives to create intellectual property and scholarly communities, plus university leaders intelligent enough to shape these evolving business models while they still can.
【R5】
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答案F
解析 空格出现在第六段末。空格上文指出，“大型开放式网络课程”引发的变革不会一夜间发生，但也不会旷日持久；并由高等教育注定会面对这一挑战提出问题：这对社会意味着什么?大学该做些什么?空格下文转而介绍在线学习的各种商业模式。因此，空格内容应该与其上文保持一致，围绕上文提出的两个问题进行论述。[F]指出，答案在很大程度七取决于在线商业模式及其动机如何发展演化以便管理教学人才、大学、测评公司和教育领域内其他关键参与者；The answers回应前文两个问题，提出解决的关键点所在，同时online business models亦与下文内容衔接紧密，故该选项正确。[G]对本题有干扰，该选项提到的require fresh ways to square…with…shape these evolving business models也可看做是一种解决方法，并且亦与下文相照应；但空格前文第五段指出高等教育的一大部分可能会不堪承受“大型开放式网络课程”带来的变革，第六段再次指出，高等教育注定要遭受在线教育的挑战，此两段主要凸显的是在线教育与传统教育的竞争冲突关系，而[G]则讨论的是把“新旧”两世界结合起来，与语境不符，同时，this new world…the old的指代也显得突兀，故排除。
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