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When next year’s crop of high-school graduates arrive at Oxford University i

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问题     When next year’s crop of high-school graduates arrive at Oxford University in the fall of 2009, they’ll be joined by a new face: Andrew Hamilton, the 55-year-old provost(教务长)of Yale, who’ll become Oxford’s vice-chancellor- a position equivalent to university president in America.
    Hamilton isn’t the only educator crossing the Atlantic. School in France, Egypt, Singapore, etc. have also recently made top-level hires from abroad. Higher education has become a big and competitive business nowadays, and like so many business, it’s gone global. Yet the talent flow isn’t universal. High-level personnel tend to head in only one direction: outward from America.
    The chief reason is that American schools don’t tend to seriously consider looking abroad. For example, when the board of the University of Colorado searched for a new president, it wanted a leader familiar with the state government, a major source of the university’s budget, "We didn’t do any global consideration", says Patricia Hayes, the board’s chair. The board ultimately picked Bruce Benson, a 69-year-old Colorado businessman and political activist(活动家) who is likely to do well in the main task of modern university presidents: fund raising. Fund raising is a distinctively American thing, since U.S. schools rely heavily on donations. The fund-raising ability is largely a product of experience and necessity.
    Many European universities, meanwhile, are still mostly dependent on government funding. But government support has failed to keep pace with rising student numbers. The decline in government support has made fund-raising an increasingly necessary ability among administrators, and has hiring committees hungry for Americans.
    In the past few years, prominent schools around the world have joined the trend. In 2003, when Cambridge University appointed Alison Richard, another former Yale provost, as its vice-chancellor, the university publicly stressed that in her previous job she had overseen(监督) "a major strengthening of Yale’s financial position".
    Of course, fund-raising isn’t the only skill outsiders offer. The globalization of education means more universities will be seeking heads with international experience of some kind to promote international programs and attract a global student body. Foreigners can offer a fresh perspective on established practices.
选项 A、Institutions worldwide are hiring administrators from the U.S.
B、A lot of political activists are being recruited as administrators.
C、American universities are enrolling more international students.
D、University presidents are paying more attention to fund-raising.
答案 A
解析 【全文翻译】
    当下一界高中毕业生在2009年秋天来到牛津大学时，有一位新面孔将会加入到他们中去：Andrew Hamilton。他55岁，曾是耶鲁大学教务长，将成为牛津大学的副校长——在美国相当于美国大学里的校长。
    Hamilton不是唯一的跨越大西洋的教育者。法国、埃及、新加坡等国的学校最近也在聘请国外高级人才。高等教育如今已经变成了大规模的竞争性的商业活动，而且像许多商务活动一样，已经变得全球化了。然而人才流动不是普遍性的。高级人员趋于只朝一个方向发展—向美国之外。
    主要原因是美国学校不倾向于认真地考虑国外人员。例如，科罗拉多大学的董事会招聘新校长时，需要一个熟悉州政府的领导人，因为州政府是大学经济的主要来源。董事会主席Patricia Hayes说："我们不会做全球考虑"。董事会最终选择了Bruce Benson，69岁的科罗拉多商人和政治活动家，他很有可能完成现代大学校长的主要任务：集资。集资明显是一项具有美国特色的事情，因为美国学校非常依赖捐款。集资能力很大程度上是经验和必要性的结果。
    同时许多欧洲的大学仍然主要依靠政府资金。但是政府资助不能跟上学生数量的增加。政府资助的减少使集资越来越成为行政管理者的必要能力，而且使雇佣委员会更渴求美国人。
    在过去的几年里，世界知名的学校已经加入到了这个潮流中。2003年，当剑桥大学聘用Alison Richard，前耶鲁大学的教务长，当副校长时，学校就公开声明在她以前的工作中她负责监督"加强耶鲁的财政状况"。
    当然，集资不只是局外人才有的技能。教育的全球化意味着更多大学需要找到具有国际经验的领导人，能够促进国际项目，并吸引全球的学生。在现有做法的基础上外国人能提供独特的看法。

细节题。根据题干定位到文章第二段最后一句：High-level personnel tend to head in only one direction：outward from America．(高级人员趋于只朝一个方向发展—向美国之外)。选项B、C文中未提及。选项D中大学校长对筹资更加重视，此项为美国大学一向的传统，不能称为current trend。
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