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问题         In many countries, it is quite common that universities would assign students to share a dorm room. The following article discusses the roommate selection system in some universities in the US. Read it carefully and write your response in NO LESS THAN 300 words, in which you should:
        1. summarize briefly the author’s opinion and then
        2. express your opinion on whether college students should be allowed to choose their own roommates.
        College Housing Selection Process Should Let Students Choose Roommates
        Many college students have faced a roommate problem at some point in their lives.
        Why some universities would prohibit self-selection of roommates or assign roommates in order to get students "out of their comfort zone" is beyond me. University administrators need to be aware of the unintended consequences of such policies.
        Not allowing students to choose roommates interferes with the natural social relationships people build during their college years. According to a recent USA TODAY report, Stanford University students can’t choose roommates nor do they learn who their roommates will be until move-in day. Entering freshmen who might know people going to Palo Alto in the fall are forced to make friends with random people when they move in, possibly negatively impacting their freshman year experience.
        Choosing roommate combinations that place different sorts of people together, can result in awkward living situations and unintended results. Most people like to choose the kinds of people they befriend. To pretend this does not continue after college in the "real world" is naive at best and somewhat dangerous.
        The tragic incident of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi, who committed suicide just days after his roommate spied on him and bullied him, helps to prove the point that some people just don’t get along with certain others. Forcing such people to coexist for at least a year can be harmful to both parties, and this policy should be pursued with caution.
        While creating combinations of students with different backgrounds might be what universities want, the students’ preferences should still come first. Look at it this way: the student is a paying customer, using certain facilities and services—the university—with the expectation his or her experience will be an enjoyable one. Why sacrifice this in the name of artificial and forced cultural exposure? Students who like to be taken out of their comfort zones will definitely seek out opportunities to do this on their own.
        I believe Tech’s roommate selection process is decent. Students can choose specific roommates even as incoming freshmen. Students can also choose random roommates, within certain basic criteria such as a student’s smoking habits and preferences of visitation hours. This works well enough, but could improve with the help of more selection factors.
        Rochester Institute of Technology will begin use a software program in order to match students with those who they are most compatible with. This approach ensures compatible people will have a chance to room together, making for, if nothing else, a more predictable freshman year.
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答案                                                                 Free Choice of Roommates
        The author of the article as a whole argues that college students should be allowed to choose their roommates. On the one hand, forcing a college student to live with a random roommate could result in negative impact such as interfering with college students’ natural social relationships, awkward living situations, etc. On the other hand, some people just don’t get along with certain others. What’s more, college students are paying customers so they should decide whom to live with. In my opinion, university students should be granted with the freedom to choose roommates.
        First of all, the practice of choosing our own roommates comes nearer to real life. University students are grownups capable of making independent decisions in a manner of one’s own choosing. It is an immature act by school to assign students to share a dorm room. College life should be a rehearsal that prepares students for the full-scale drama of reality.
        Secondly, an incompatible dormitory life is likely to entail inconvenience, distress, or even fatal tragedies. Imagine a case scenario like this: Student A keeps a clocklike timetable by going to bed before 11 o’clock and getting up at 7:00 a,m., while his roommate Student B is a night owl who seldom turns in before midnight. So when A is trying to fall asleep, B has just raised the curtain of his "prime time". In this case, A’s sleep might be compromised, affecting his study with a lack of rest. When the efforts of reconciliation fall apart, these two students might turn against each other with incessant quarrels. What’s even graver is the possibility that irreconcilable conflicts between roommates could result in appalling murders now and then reported in the newspaper.
        Generally speaking, it takes congeniality for two persons to live together in harmony. Since this cannot be forced or arranged, it’s better to leave the choice in the hands of students themselves.
解析         材料开篇以许多大学生面临的舍友问题引出关于舍友安排制度的探讨。
        第二段明确指出大学管理层需留意禁止学生自主挑选舍友这一制度的潜在后果。
        第三至六段主要分析了应让学生自由挑选舍友的原因：迫使大学生与某个人共用寝室可能导致负面影响，比如干扰大学生正常的社会关系（interfering with college students’ natural social relationships）、导致尴尬的居住环境（awkward living situations）；有些人本身存在与其他人相处的障碍（some people just don’t get along with certain others）；大学生是付费方，理应由他们自己决定跟谁一起住（college students are paying customers so they should decide whom to live with）。
        最后两段重点谈及作者认可的舍友挑选模式（Tech’s roommate selection process），并介绍了一种更先进的挑选舍友的应用软件（use a software program in order to match students with those who they are most compatible with）。
        总体而言，材料认为大学生应该有选择舍友的自由。
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