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* * 选词填空套 6月英语六级阅读真题及答案 第12017年students their After becoming president of Purdue University in2013, Mitch Daniels asked the faculty to prove that a before, Two years most important goals: critical thinking skills. have actually achieved one of higher educations nationwide study of college graduates had shown that more than a third had made no 26 gains in such mental abilities during their school years. Mr. Daniels needed to__27__ the high cost of attending Purdue to its students and their familiesin the say a college degree is very important has fallen the percentage of Americans who 28 . After all, last 5-6 years. Purdue now has a pilot test to assess students critical thinking skills. Yet like many college teachers around the U.S., the faculty remain __29__ that their work as educators can be measured by learning 30 _ such as a graduates ability to investigate and reason. However, the professors need not worry so much. The results of a recent experiment showed that professors can use __31__ metrics to measure how well students do in three key areas: critical thinking, written communication, and quantitative literacy. Despite the success of the experiment, the actual results are worrisome, and mostly __32__ earlier studies. The organiwere high levels on than they critical thinking zers of the experiment concluded that far fewer students were achieving nearing on students quantitative literacy. And that conclusion is based only doing for written communication or graduation. 33__ for excellence in teaching, have only their global American universities, despite but still important, Knowledge-based degrees are begun to demonstrate what they can produce in real-world learning. employers are still important, but employers are __34__ advanced thinking skills from college graduates. If the intellectual —people will seek higher educationdegree can be __35__ measured, more worth of a college and come out better thinkers. A