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W: (5)According to a study of race and equity in education, black athletes are dropping out of college across the country at alarming rates. With us to talk about the findings in the study is Washington Post columnist Kevin Blackistone. Good morning.
M: Good morning, how are you?
W: Fine, thank you. What is new that you found in this study?
M: (6)Well, this is Shaun Harper's study, and he points out that on major college campuses across the country, black males make up less than 3 percent of undergraduate enrollments. Yet, when you look at their numbers or percentages on the revenue-generating sports teams of football and basketball, they make up well into 50 to 60 percent of those teams. So the idea is that they are really there to be part of the revenue-generating working class of athletes on campus and not necessarily there to be part of the educating class as most students in other groups are.
W: (7)Compared with other groups, I think the numbers in this group, at those 65 schools, are something like just barely more than half of the black male athletes graduate at all.
M: Exactly. And what's really bad about this is these athletes are supposedly promised at least one thing as reward for all their blood and sweat. And that is a college degree, which can be a transformative tool in our society when you talk about upward mobility. And that's really the troubling part about this.
W: Well, this has been talked about so much, really, in recent years. Why hasn't it changed?
M: Well, I think one of the reasons it hasn't changed is because there's really no economic pressure to change this. (8)All of the incentive is really on winning and not losing on the field or on the court. Coaches do not necessarily have the incentive to graduate players.
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预览四道题各选项,由第5题选项中反复出现的 college、 black athletes等词可以初步推测,对话 内容与大学里的黑人运动员有关;再结合第8题各选项中的 lack the incentive、 graduate、 do not count、little interest in academic work、 serious problem 等词可以进一步推测,对话内容涉及大学中黑人运动员学业不佳， 无法毕业等问题。
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5. What are the speakers talking about?
C)。【详解】 对话开头女士就点明主题：根据一份种族与教育公平的调查，全国各高校中，黑人运动员的辍学比例增长速度极其惊人。因此答案为C)。
6. What is the new finding about black male athletes in this study?
【详解】 对话中，男士解释说，根据这份调查，全国主要高校中，黑人男性占学生人数的比例还不到3%，但是在营利性的足球队和篮球队中，他们的人数却占到了50%到60%。所以从本质上来讲，他们在学校与其说是学生，还不如说是从事创收的体育工作者。因此答案为D)。
7. What is the graduation rate of black male athletes?
【详解】 对话中女士说，在接受调查的65所学校中，这些黑人男性运动员的毕业率勉强超过50%，故答案为C)。
8. What accounts for black athletes' failure to obtain a college degree, according to the man?
【详解】 对话结尾男士说，造成这种现状的一个原因是教练们最关心的只是比赛的输赢，而不是鼓励这些运动员努力去拿到毕业证。因此答案为A)。