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Claremont McKenna College, a small, prestigious California school, admitted
Claremont McKenna College, a small, prestigious California school, admitted
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Claremont McKenna College, a small, prestigious California school,
admitted that it has submitted false SAT scores to publications like U.S.
News & World Report use the data in widely followed college rankings. 1. ______
In a message e-mail to college staff members and students, Claremont 2. ______
McKenna’s president since 1999, Pamela B. Gann, wrote that "a senior
administrator" had taken solely responsibility for falsifying the scores, 3.______
admitted doing so since 2005, and resigned his post.
People briefed on the matter said that the administrator was Richard
C. Vos, vice president and dean of admissions, whose name was removed
away in the last few days from the college’s online list of top officials. 4. ______
The critical reading and math scores reported to U.S. News and others "were
generally inflamed by an average of 10-20 points each," Ms. Gann wrote. For the 5. ______
class that entered the school in September 2010 — the most recent set of figures
made the public —the combined median score of 1,400 was reported as 1,410, 6. ______
she said, while the 75th percent score of 1,480 was reported as 1,510. 7. ______
Such small differences might influence the rankings, but the deception 8, ______
underscores the importance those rankings have taken on, as colleges fret
toward the loss of even a notch or two against their competitors. 9. ______
Robert Franek, the senior vice president of publishing for The Princeton
Review, which provides preparation for the SAT and also ranks colleges, said
that he had never heard of a college unintentionally reporting incorrect data. 10,______ [br]
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答案
inflamed——inflated
解析
本题为动词误用。两个都可以作及物动词。根据句子的意思,上报给出版机构的SAT录取分数都被人为地提高了,inflame表示“使燃烧”,inflate表示“使夸大”,故用后者。
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