SECTION A In this section you will hear a
mini. lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the
lecture, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but
you will need them to complete a gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the
mini-lecture. Use the blank paper for note-taking. Now listen
to the mini. lecture. Humanities
Disciplines In many people’s eyes, the humanities disciplines seem to be
dying out. However, actually, students continue to enroll in humanities
courses and lots of scholarship is still published. The humanities
disciplines feel dislocated, because they appear to have lost their
(1)______.
(1) ______ And the most important one is exactly what those roots
were. The history of higher education in the United States since (2)______
can (2) ______ be divided into 2
periods. Ⅰ. The first period (1945—1975): A period of
(3)______and known in the literature on American
(3) ______ education as the Golden
Age, during which the composition of the higher education system changed not
too much, but the size of the system (4)______ dramatically.
(4) ______ This
expansion includes three factors: 1) The baby boom: a period of
record (5)______that followed a period of (5)
______ record low blah rates—the (6)______and the Second World War;
(6)
______ 2) The relatively high domestic economic growth rate
after (7)______; (7) ______
3) The Cold War: American university had been drawn into the business
of government-related (8)______research during the Second World War.
(8) ______ IL The
second period (1975—present) A period of (9)______, during which
the size of the system has grown at a much (9) ______ more
(10)______pace, and the composition has changed dramatically.
(10) ______