As a university president, I feel that there is a serious danger in higher education today. We administrators are failing to meet our responsibilities because in our well-meaning but time-consuming efforts to achieve financial stability, we are losing sight of human needs in the university experience. We are failing to spend the time to develop meaningful relationships with students. This is our most basic responsibility, and I believe that this problem deserves our immediate attention.

As the pressures increase in the coming decade, I believe the real danger to higher education is depersonalization. A serious concern is that presidents and deans will turn themselves into vague shadows on our campuses, into bureaucrats (官僚) with no time in their busy schedules to meet with students. And I am not talking about just “availability” here. I mean we need to make time to develop deep personal relationships that will remain beyond the four short years of a university education.

Before it is too late, I think we need to ask ourselves this questions: What is happening to the dream we once cherished about higher education that we could receive young people at the critical age of young adulthood and play a major role in developing their cultural and intellectual curiosity, in helping them acquire a healthy sense of values?

I beg presidents, deans, and faculty members to refuse to become part of this growing cancer of depersonalization. The students are ready for us. In this era of compromised values, where we see everywhere the results of the breakdown of Traditional structures, where we witness on a grand scale the impact of our highly mechanistic (机械的) society with its lack of leadership and a sense of fear and separateness, our students are saying: “We need your guidance, we need you; we need someone who cares.”

(1). (单选题) What is the major concern of university presidents now according to the passage?( )

A、University students.

B、Vague shadows.

C、Finance.

D、Depersonalization.

(2). (单选题) Which of the following should be the most important to university administrators according to the writer?( )

A、They are easily accessible to students.

B、They readily compromise with students.

C、They develop meaningful relations with students.

D、They cherish their dream about higher education.

(3). (单选题) Which of the following is TRUE of the present university presidents according to the passage?( )

A、They tend to neglect the students.

B、They ignore the students they meet.

C、They avoid notice from people around them.

D、They consider themselves superior to students.

(4). (单选题) What can be said of the modern society?( )

A、Students in this society have no sense of values.

B、It’s so realistic that people no longer have dreams.

C、People ignore the leadership of the government.

D、It’s a society that quite breaks away from tradition.

(5). (单选题) What is the solution to the problem discussed in the passage?( )

A、Administrators should spend more time with the students and take up the responsibility to guide them.

B、Presidents and faculty members should arouse the students’ cultural and intellectual curiosity.

C、Students should understand that the presidents have to take into consideration the survival of the university.

D、All the people concerned should make efforts to change the present society into one with no fear and isolation.