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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE考试双语阅读模拟练习8 GRE阅读练习：GRE考试双语阅读模拟练习8 GRE考试精品课程训练  Private universities——A deGREe of frustration  私立大学：一定程度的沮丧  Higher education is embracing private suppliers—but timidly  高等教育欢迎私立大学办学者—但是仍显怯懦  The first batches of 60 undergraduates at the New College of the Humanities in Bloomsbury, London’s main university quarter, occupy a spacious Georgian house. Opening doors on the way up a grand staircase, your reporter eavesdropped on tutorials on ancient Greece, Romantic poets and economic theory. It feels like a dinky version of an august academic institution. Yet it is a for-profit organization with a chief executive huddled over spreadsheets downstairs.  在伦敦布鲁斯伯里的大学主城区，第 一批进入新人文学院的60名大学生就有了宽敞的教学场所--一栋乔治时代的建筑。走入敞开的大门，扶着一个壮观的楼梯而上，本报的记者悄悄旁听了一会古代希腊、罗马诗歌、经济理论的课程。感觉就像一个极小的庄严的学术学院。然而这是一个盈利学院，一位首席执行官在楼下忙碌地处理一些数据。  The college’s founder is Anthony Grayling, a philosopher who wants to introduce a bit of diversity to a largely state-funded higher education system. A new high-end entrant in the marketplace also helps fill the gap in provision for students with good qualifications who lose out by a grade or two in the brutal race for places in the Russell Group of top universities. Degrees are awarded through the University of London, but at 18,000 pounds ($28,550) fees are double the maximum that state-subsidized universities can charge. The syllabus is broader and more akin to an American liberal-arts college than a traditional English university.  该大学的创办者名为安东尼·格雷林(Anthony Grayling)，这位哲学家希望为大范围的公立为主的高等教育体系引入一些多元化元素。一些优秀学生由于在罗素大学( Russell Group )集团的残酷竞争中相差一二分而落榜，在教育市场上这位高端新入者为这些学生填补了空缺。学位证书通过伦敦大学颁发，但是费用高达18000英镑(28550 美元)，是国立大学补助最 高费用的2倍。与传统的英国大学相比，这个教学大纲更宽广，更类似于美国自由艺术大学。  This kind of disruptive innovation earns a mixed reception. The coalition government welcomes it. But Terry Eagleton, an outspoken Marxist academic, describes the venture as “odious” and divisive. Other critics have po