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2. choose the best answer to each question with the information you got from the passage.

  1. What can undergraduate research do for students that traditional courses can't? 
    A) Guarantee that the students will graduate with high marks.
    B) Expand the students' minds through intensive study of evolving knowledge.
    C) Help the students graduate more quickly than other students.
    D) Answer questions the students will certainly face in their future careers.

  2. What does "spoon-fed" mean in the sentence "You were not going to be spoon-fed."? 
    A) To be taught passively in every step
    B) To learn actively
    C) To learn very fast
    D) To learn little by little

  3. What made Amelia return to Columbia to pursue her further study? 
    A) She wanted to leave her Wall Street programming job.
    B) She wanted to go out to learn on her own.
    C) She was so fond of computer science.
    D) She enjoyed her days as an undergraduate researcher at Columbia.

  4. Why did Stella preferr to do research work rather than work in the cafeteria?  
    A) She could earn more money than in a cafeteria.
    B) She could earn more credits by doing research.
    C) She could easily get the opportunity to transfer to another job.
    D) She believed that research could be another kind of learning.(The choices should be made of more or less the same length.)

  5. What's the passage mainly about? It tells us---- 
    A) how to perform an undergraduate research project.
    B) undergraduate research is one of the easiest jobs for undergraduates to earn money.
    C) the various benefits of doing undergraduate research.
    D) every student must be involved, one way or another, in research performed at university.

 
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