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In the college-admissions wars, we parents are the true fights. We are pushi

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问题     In the college-admissions wars, we parents are the true fights. We are pushing our kids to get good grades, take SAT preparatory courses and build resumes so they can get into the college of our first choice. I’ve twice been to the wars, and as I survey the battlefield, something different is happening. We see our kids’ college background as a prize demonstrating how well we’ve raised them. But we can’t acknowledge that our obsession (痴迷) is more about us than them. So we’ve contrived various justifications that turn out to be half-truths, prejudices or myths. It actually doesn’t matter much whether Aaron and Nicole go to Stanford.
    We have a full-blown prestige panic; we worry that there won’t be enough prizes to go around. Fearful parents urge their children to apply to more schools than ever. Underlying the hysteria (歇斯底里) is the belief that scarce elite degrees must be highly valuable. Their graduates must enjoy more success because they get a better education and develop better contacts. All that is plausible—and mostly wrong. We haven’t found any convincing evidence that selectivity or prestige matters. Selective schools don’t systematically employ better instructional approaches than less selective schools. On two measures—professors’ feedback and the number of essay exams—selective schools do slightly worse.
    By some studies, selective schools do enhance their graduates’ lifetime earnings. The gain is reckoned at 2-4％ for every 100-point increase in a school’s average SAT scores. But even this advantage is probably a statistical fluke (偶然).A well-known study examined students who got into highly selective schools and then went elsewhere. They earned just as much as graduates from higher-status schools.
    Kids count more than their colleges. Getting into Yale may signify intelligence, talent and ambition. But it’s not the only indicator and, paradoxically, its significance is declining. Old-boy networks are breaking down. Princeton economist Alan Krueger studied admissions to one top Ph.D. program. High scores on the GRE helped explain who got in; degrees of prestigious universities didn’t.
    So, parents, lighten up. The stakes have been vastly exaggerated up to a point; we can rationalize our pushiness. America is a competitive society; our kids need to adjust to that. But too much pushiness can be destructive. The very ambition we impose on our children may get some into Harvard but may also set them up for disappointment. One study found that other things being equal, graduates of highly selective schools experienced more job dissatisfaction. They may have been so conditioned to being on top that anything less disappoints. [br] What does the author mean by "kids count more than their colleges" Line 1 Para.4?
选项 A、Continuing education is more important to a person’s success.
B、A person’s happiness should be valued more than their education.
C、Kids’ actual abilities are more important than their college background.
D、What kids learn at college cannot keep up with job market requirements.
答案 C
解析 语义题。根据题干说明定位到原文第四段。该段首句指出，孩子本身比他们上的哪所大学更重要。随后在第二句和第三句提到，进入耶鲁大学可能意味着智慧、才能和抱负。但这并不是唯一的指标，而且，和往常不同的是，就读精英学校的重要性正在下降。该段最后两句进一步说到，普林斯顿大学的经济学家艾伦.克鲁格研究了一个顶级博士项目的招生情况。较高的GRE成绩是录取时的考量因素；名牌大学的学位则不然。由此可见，以普林斯顿大学为代表的精英学校在招生时变得更加看重学生个人的能力，而没有那么看重其名校学历。C项表述与原文相符，故选C。
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