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三、閱讀測驗（占 10 分）    In a sense the university has failed. It has stored great quantities of knowledge; itteaches more people; and despite its failures, it teaches them better. It is in the applicationof this knowledge that the failure has come. Of the great branches of knowledge –the sciences, the social sciences and humanities—the sciences are applied. Strenuous andoccasionally successful efforts are made to apply the social sciences, but almost never arethe humanities well applied. We do not use philosophy in defining our conduct. We donot use literature as a source of real and vicarious experience. The great task of theuniversity in the next generation is to learn to use the knowledge we have for thequestions that come before us. The university should organize courses around primaryproblems. The difference between a primary problem and a second or even tertiaryproblem is that primary problems tend to be around for a long time, whereas the lessimportant ones get solved.    One primary problem is that of interfering with biological development. The nextgeneration, and perhaps this one, will be able to interfere chemically with the actualdevelopment of an individual and perhaps biologically by interfering with an individual’sgenes. Obviously, there are benefits both to individuals and to society from eliminating,or at least improving, mentally and physically deformed persons. On the other hand,there could be very serious consequences if this knowledge were used with premeditationto produce superior and subordinate classes, each genetically prepared to carry out apredetermined mission. This can be done, but what happens to free will and the rights ofthe individual? Here we have a primary problem which will still exist when we are alldead. Of course, the traditional faculty members would say, “But the students won’t learnenough to go to graduate school.” And certainly they would not learn everything we arein the habit of making them learn, but they would learn some other things.
51. The author suggests that the university’s greatest shortcoming is its failure to ___.
(A) attempt to provide equal opportunity for all
(B) require students to include in their curricula liberal arts courses
(C) prepare students adequately for professional studies
(D) help students see the relevance of the humanities to real problems

參考答案

答案：D
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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