凯程考研集训营，为学生引路，为学员服务！第 1 页 共 5 页2017 考研英语阅读暑期训练：法学类（23）暑期集训来了，如何在暑期两个月创造出双倍的价值是每个考生想要达到的目标。这就需要加倍的努力和科学的规划了。英语方面的复习，大家要持续性背单词，阅读、写作及翻译要多加练习，总结方法技巧，活学活用。下面凯程在线和大家分享法学类的阅读模拟题，大家不妨集中练习，提升阅读速度和做题技巧。As students primp and preen to wow their favorite colleges， theres one characteristic they cant control： their race. Thats one reason voters， courts and politicians in six states have outlawed racial preferences in college admissions， while other colleges， fearful of lawsuits， play down their affirmative-action efforts these days. But make no mistake： race still matters. How much depends on the school and the state.In Texas， public universities have managed to counteract the effect of racial-preference bans by automatically admitting the top 10% of the graduating class of every high school， including those schools where most students are minorities. But Rice University in Houston， private and highly selective， has had to reinvent its admissions strategies to maintain the schools minority enrollment. Each February， 80 to 90 black， Hispanic and Native American kids visit Rice on an expenses-paid trip. Rice urges counselors from high schools with large minority populations to nominate qualified students. And in the fall， Rice sends two recruiters on the road to find minority applicants; each recruiter visits about 80 predominantly black or Hispanic high schools. Two weeks ago， Rice recruiter Tamara Siler dropped in on Westlake High in Atlanta， where 99% of the 1，296 students are black. Siler went bearing literature and advice， and though only two kids showed up， she said， “Im pleased I got two.”Rice has also resorted to some almost comical end-runs around the spirit of the law. The university used to award a yearly scholarship to a Mexican-American student; now it goes to a student who speaks Spanish really well. Admissions officers no longer know an applicants race. But a new essay question asks about each students “background” and “cultural traditions.” When Rice officials read applications， they look for “diverse life experiences” and what they awkwardly call “overcome students，” who have triumphed over hardship.Last spring， admissions readers came across a student whose SAT score was lower than 1，200 and who did not rank in the top 10% of her class. Numerically speaking， she lagged far behind most accepted applicants. But her essay and recommendations indicated a strong interest in civil rights and personal experience with racial discrimination. She was admitted. “All the newspapers say affirmative action is done，” says a veteran counselor at a large New York City high school. “But nothing has changed. I have a minority kid at Yale with an SAT score in the high 900s.”While minority admissions at the University of California system overall have dipped only slightly since a ban on affirmative action took effect in 1998， they have plummeted at the most selective campuses. At Berkeley， for example， the class entering this fall included 608 Chicano students， vs. 1，013 in 1997. In response， the elite schools have moved aggressively to recruit at minority high schoolsand even to improve the performance of students who are 凯程考研集训营，为学生引路，为学员服务！第 2 页 共 5 页graduating from them. This year the U.C. system will spend $250 million on outreach， from installing tutors at low-income schools to inviting high school teachers to summer calculus seminars.注(1)：本文选自 Time;10/23/2000，? p77;注(2)：本文习题命题模仿对象 2001 年真题 text 2 和 2002 年真题 text 2 第 2 题(5)1. Affirmative action is something _.A that guarantees students of different races to be admitted equallyB American citizens fight against because it discriminates minority studentsC colleges take to give preference to minority students in college admissionD favored by American colleges yet unpopular with American public2. Rice University sent two recruiters to find minority applicants because _.A Rice wanted to maintain minority enrollmentB minority students have better school performanceC Rice has a large minority populationD Rice is famous for admitting minority students3. The writer mentioned Rices some comic end-runs around the spirit of the law to showthat_.A Rice abides by the law strictlyB Rice deals with students in a comic wayC Rice prefers minority studentsD Rice has its own ways of dealing with the law4. It seems that minority students _.A are still benefiting from affirmative actionB have lower SAT scoresC are often admitted by universities because they have unique racial experienceD lag far behind than other students in school performance5. The word “plummeted” (Line 2， Paragraph 5) most probably means_.?A doubledB risenC stayed the sameD decreased答案：C A D A D篇章剖析本文是一篇说明文，介绍了各大学是如何应对不允许在招生中照顾少数族裔的法律的。在第一段作者指出虽然一些州规定在大学招生中照顾某些种族的政策为非法，但学生的种族身份仍然很重要。第二段介绍了德克萨斯州公立大学的应对策略和私立大学莱斯大学对付这一情况的办法。第三段介绍了莱斯大学所采用的迂回策略。第四段以两个例子说明少数族裔的学生即使 SAT 成绩不高也能上名牌大学。最后一段介绍了加利福尼亚禁止平权措施带来的影响