HIGHER EDUCATIONCONDITIONAL AND WISH SENTENCES A. CONDITIONAL SENTENCE...

30. Ed _________ in serious financial problems if he had listened to some of his friends

A.

wouldn’t be

B.

wouldn’t been

C.

wouldn’t have been

D.

hadn’t been

B.

READING

I.

Read the passage and choose the best answer

College students in the United States today

A.

Life on US campuses is always changing. One change these days is that there are more foreign

students than ever before, especially in certain majors and in graduate schools. There are

almost half a million foreign students in colleges and universities in the United States. Most of

these students are studying business and management. Almost as many are majoring in

engineering. Other practical courses- mathematics, computer science, and some life sciences

(such as biology) – are also popular majors. Not many foreign students are majoring in

humanities (literatures, art, drama, philosophy, etc.) or the social sciences (anthropology),

psychology, and so on, probably because they don’t believe these fields offer the best job

opportunities

B.

For many years in the United States, most undergraduate students (in their first four years of

college) were 18 years old. They attended college full-time, live in a dormitory on campus,

and expected many “extras” from their colleges, not just classes. But things began to change

in the 1970s and are very different now. Today, these “traditional students are less than one

quarter (1/4) of all college students. These days the nontraditional students are the majority;

they are different from traditional undergraduates in several ways. They are older. Many

attend college part-time because they have families and jobs. Most live off campus, not in

dorms. These nontraditional students don’t want the extras that college usually offer. They

aren’t interested in the sports, entertainment, religious groups and museums that are part of

most US colleges. They want mainly good-quality classes, day or night, at a low cost. They also

hope for easy parking, short registration lines, and polite service. Both time and money are

important to them.

C.

Psychological tests reflect different learning styles in this new student population, too. Each

person has a certain learning style, and about 60 percent (%) of the new students these days

prefer sensing style. This means that they are very practical. They prefer a practice- to theory

method of learning – experience first and ideas after that. They often have difficulty with

reading and writing and are unsure of themselves. Most of these students are attending

colleges because they want to have a good job and make a lot of money.

D.

In another way, also, students these days are different from students in the past. In the 1960s

and 1970s, many students demonstrated against the government and hoped to make big

changes in society. In the 1980s, most students were interested only in their studies and

future jobs. Today, students seem to be a combination of the two. They want to make good

money when they graduate, but they’re also interested in helping society. Many students

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today are volunteering in the community. They are working to help people, without payment.

For example, they tutor (teach privately) children in trouble, or they work with organizations

for homeless people. In these ways, they hope to make changes in society.