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【正文】 tisfied with their working environment. B. People are now paying more attention to their lives. C. People are advised to take the futurologists’ remarks seriously. D. people are looking for something firm to rely on. Passage 6 Nobody ever went into academic circles to make a fast fortune. Professors, especially those in medicaland technologyrelated fields, typically earn a fraction of what their colleagues in industry do. But suddenly, big money is starting to flow into the ivory tower, as university administrators wake up to the mercial potential of academic research. And the institutions are wrestling with a whole new set of issues. The profits are impressive: the Association of University Technology Managers surveyed 132 universities and found that they earned a bined $ 576 million from paten royalties in 1998, a number that promises to keep rising dramatically. Schools like Columbia University in New York have aggressively marketed their inventions to corporations, particularly 6 pharmaceutical and hightech panies. Now Columbia is going retail on the Web. It plans to go beyond the typical “dot. Edu” model, free sites listing courses and professors’ research interests. Instead, it will offer the expertise of its faculty on a new forprofit site which will be spun off as an independent pany. The site will provide free access to educational and research content, say administrators, as will as advanced features that are already available to Columbia students, such as a simulation of the construction and architecture of a French cathedral and interactive 3D models of anic chemicals. Free pages will feed into profitgenerating areas, such as online courses and seminars, and related books and tapes. Columbia executive vice president Michael Crow imagines “millions of visitors” to the new site, including retirees and students willing to pay to tap into this educational resource. “We can offer the best of what’s thought and written and researched,” says Ann Kirschner, who heads the project. Columbia also is anxious not to be beaten by some of the other forprofit “knowledge sites,” such as About. Com and Hungry Minds. “If they capture this space,” says Crow, “they’ll begin to cherrypick our best faculty.” Profits from the sale of patents typically have been divided between the researcher, the department and the university, and Web profits would work the same way, so many faculty members are delighted. But others find the trend worrisome: is a professor who stands to profit from his or her research as credible as one who doesn’t? will universities provide more support to researchers working in profitable fields than to scholars toiling in more musty areas? “If there’s perception that we might be making money from our efforts, the authority of the university could be diminished,” worries Herve Varenne, a cultural anthropology professor at Columbia’s education school. Says Kirschner: “We would never promise the integrity of the university.” Whether the new site can add to the growing profits from patents remains to be seen, but one thing is clear. It is going to take the best minds on camps to find a new balance between profit and purity. 62. In the past, professors ____D___. A. could earn as much as doctor. B. were able to earn more than engineers. C. were not good at earning money. D. did not intend to earn money easily. 63. Excellent sums of money are beginning to pour into academic circle because university administrators _____A_B_. A. have seized the chance to put theories into practice B. have e to realize what the great worthy ideas can bring them C. are mostly from mercial circles D. are keen on turning research results into dollars 64. According to the survey, $576 million earned by 132 universities came from ____C___. A. the patent office B. their publications C. payments for the use of the patent rights D. the support by hightech panies 65. Columbia’s Web site can provide free __A___B_. A. expertise of its professors B. listing of courses and professors’ research interests C. online courses and seminars D. books and tapes related to the courses 66. Ann Kirschner is ___B__D__ the Columbia’s new project. A. suspicious of B. objective about C. opposed to D. in favor of 67. What worries Michael Crow most is ___D___. A. that they’ll not beat other educational “knowledge sites” B. that the spunoff pany will remain independent C. that their educational resource will be tapped into D. that their faculty’s brains will be picked by their petitors 68. Many of Columbia’s faculty members are delighted with ____A___. A. the way profits are divided B. the trend of the new Inter adventure C. the university’s support to researchers in profitable fields D. the impressive profits for the university 69. Which of the following will those worrying about the trend support? B A. Professors working in profitable fields are less reliable. B. More support should be given to musty areas other than profitgeneration ones. C. Professors in technologyrelated fields should earn more than their counterparts do in industry. D. People working in pharmaceutical and hightech panies should earn the biggest money. 70. Which of the following is the main idea of the passage? B A. The impressive profits tend to undermine the integrity of the university. B. Some universities are struggling with new ways to turn ideas into cash. C. It’s important to make use of bright ideas to make more profits. D. Columbia’s new site is to create profits. Part IV Translation (20 points) Section A Put the following into Chinese on your Answer sheet. The human species is the oute of a continuous, natural process of evolution, involving an infinite number of transformation。 an inexorable process that has been going on since the formation of the