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? Part 1 Multiple choices(每小题： 分) Directions: Read the following passages carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage or dialog. In order to separate doting parents from their freshman sons, Morehouse College in Atlanta has instituted a formal Parting Ceremony. It began on a recent evening, with speeches in the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel (小教堂). Then the incoming freshmen marched through the gates of the campus—which slowly shut, literally leaving the parents outside. When University of Minnesota freshmen move in at the end of August, parental separation was a little more artful: mothers and fathers were invited to a reception elsewhere so students can meet their roommates and negotiate dorm room space—without adult interference. Grinnell College here, like others, has found it necessary to be explicit about when parents really, truly must say goodbye. After computer printers and bags had been carried to dorm rooms, everyone gathered in the gymnasium, students on one side of the bleachers (看台座位), parents on the other. The president welcoming the class of 2011 had his back to the parents—a symbolic staging meant to inspire parents to realize, My student is feeling more comfortable sitting with 400 people they just met. Shortly after, mothers and fathers were urged to leave campus. Most deans can tell stories of parents who lingered around campus for days. At Colgate University, a mother and father once went to their daughters classes on the first day of the semester and went to the registrars office to change her schedule, recalled Beverly Low, the dean of first-year students. We recognize its a huge day for families, she said. A more common approach is for colleges to introduce frank language into drop-off schedules stating clearly the hour for last hugs. As of 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 11, for example, the parents of Princeton freshmen learn from the move