2017考双语新闻：大学排名是否违背常识.docVIP

2017考研双语新闻：大学排名是否违背常识 　　考研英语阅读提分要多看多练多总结，很多题材都离不开时事新闻，大家平时要多注意阅读一些双语新闻，提升词汇量，拓展知识面。下面凯程考研频道分享双语新闻阅读，大家要多练练。 2017考研双语新闻阅读：大学排名是否违背常识 　　Students, parents and educators increasinglyobsessed with college rankings have a new tool: the Obama administration’s CollegeScorecard. The new database focuses on a college’s graduation rate, graduates’ medianearnings 10 years after graduation and the percentage of students paying back their collegeloans. 　　如今的学生、家长和教育者越来越关注大学排名。现在，他们有了一个新工具：奥巴马政府的高校记分卡(College Scorecard)。这个新数据库重点关注高校毕业率、学生毕业十年后的收入中值以及学生偿还大学贷款的比例。 　　While Scorecard adds potentially valuable information to the dizzying array that is alreadyavailable, it suffers from many of the same flaws that afflict nearly every other college rankingsystem: There is no way to know what, if any, impact a particular college has on itsgraduates’ earnings, or life for that matter. 　　虽然高校记分卡在原本已经令人眼花缭乱的参考系数中增加了一些可能很有价值的信息，但它也有几乎所有其他大学排名系统都存在的缺陷：无法得知大学对毕业生收入(以及因此导致的生活质量)的影响到底有多大。 　　“It’s a classic example of confusing causation and correlation,” said Frank Bruni, the authorof “Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be,” a book about the college admissions process, and anop-ed columnist for The New York Times. “Anyone who has taken statistics should know better,but when it comes to colleges, that’s what people do. They throw common sense out thewindow.” 　　“这是个典型的把因果关系和相互关系搞混的例子，”《Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be》的作者、《纽约时报》专栏作家弗兰克·布鲁尼(Frank Bruni)说，“学过统计学的人应该更清楚这一点，但是一提到大学，人们就忘了常识。” 　　Of course graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (average postgraduateearnings $91,600, according to the Scorecard) and Harvard ($87,200) do well. That’s becausethe students they admit have some of the highest test scores and high school grade pointaverages in the country, reflecting high intelligence and a strong work ethic — two factors thatcause high future earnings. That is generally true regardless of where such students attendcollege, as long as they go to a reputable four-year institution, var