The author considers the contentions made by the recent historians discussed in the passage to be ______.

A．young people are showing less interest in higher education
B．students cannot understand modem academic texts
C．academic books are too childish for their undergraduates
D．there has been a significant change in student literacy

A．learn to associate the words in a text with pictures
B．are exposed to modern teaching techniques
C．are encouraged to ignore pictures in the text
D．learn the art of telling stories