[A]soothing. [B]ambiguous.

　　[C]compensatory. [D]misleading.

　　解析：

　　Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic,这句话中的unrealistic 有理由让我们觉得其他的选项都是浮云。

　　40.Which of the following can be inferred from the last paragraph?

　　[A]Having children contributes little to the glamour of celebrity moms.

　　[B]Celebrity moms have influenced our attitude towards child rearing.

　　[C]Having children intensifies our dissatisfaction with life.

　　[D]We sometimes neglect the happiness from child rearing.

　　解析：又是段落推理题，需要看全部的选项。

　　[A]Having children contributes little to the glamour of celebrity moms.

　　完整句需要和原文的主谓宾对应，

　　[C]Having children intensifies our dissatisfaction with life.

　　文章中说道了我们对生活的不满，但是有没有讲有孩子加剧了我们对生活的不满，这就是我经常在课上讲到的一定要对应主谓宾消除视觉上的干扰。落实到动作是否有发生，动作的施动者和受动者分别是谁。

　　把那个句子的主干搞出来就是：

　　the images are contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience

　　就是加剧了对于我们现实生活的不满的也是那些image 状语都去了!

　　[D]We sometimes neglect the happiness from child rearing.

　　同样的方法和视角来处理这个选项。正确选项B 来自两个地方：

　　首先是but的转折：

　　前面说我们不会傻到由于这些明星的形象而要孩子的。

　　那么转折就应该是：但是我们确实受了他们的影响。这样由转折而起的推理在我的阅读课堂中可以说是比比皆是。

　　其次是最后一句：

　　in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “ the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

　　要是看过老友记的同学应该能知道，Rachel 是个单生妈妈，但是这样的方法不推荐。

　　Part B

　　Directions:

　　The following paragraph are given in a wrong order. For Questions 41-45, you are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent text by choosing from the list A-G to filling them into the numbered boxes. Paragraphs E and G have been correctly placed. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)

　　文章自于2010年2月25日的Economist 经济学人杂志， University education in America 美国的大学教育

　　[A] No disciplines have seized on professionalism with as much enthusiasm as the humanities. You can, Mr Menand points out, became a lawyer in three years and a medical doctor in four. But the regular time it takes to get a doctoral degree in the humanities is nine years. Not surprisingly, up to half of all doctoral students in English drop out before getting their degrees.

　　[B] His concern is mainly with the humanities: Literature, languages, philosophy and so on. These are disciplines that are going out of style: 22% of American college graduates now major in business compared with only 2% in history and 4% in English. However, many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should posses. But most find it difficult to agree on what a “general education” should look like. At Harvard, Mr Menand notes, “the great books are read because they have been read”-they form a sort of social glue.

　　[C] Equally unsurprisingly, only about half end up with professorships for which they entered graduate school. There are simply too few posts. This is partly because universities continue to produce ever more PhDs. But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor’s degrees in 1970-71 than they did 20 years later. Fewer students requires fewer teachers. So, at the end of a decade of theses-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.

　　[D] One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they can cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts educations and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools. Many students experience both varieties. Although more than half of Harvard undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must study a non-specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional qualification.

　　[E] Besides professionalizing the professions by this separation, top American universities have professionalised the professor. The growth in public money for academic research has speeded the process: federal research grants rose fourfold between 1960and 1990, but faculty teaching hours fell by half as research took its toll. Professionalism has turned the acquisition of a doctoral degree into a prerequisite for a successful academic career: as late as 1969a third of American professors did not possess one. But the key idea behind professionalisation, argues Mr Menand, is that “the knowledge and skills needed for a particular specialization are transmissible but not transferable.”So disciplines acquire a monopoly not just over the production of knowledge, but also over the production of the producers of knowledge.

　　[F] The key to reforming higher education, concludes Mr Menand, is to alter the way in which “the producers of knowledge are produced.”Otherwise, academics will continue to think dangerously alike, increasingly detached from the societies which they study, investigate and criticize.”Academic inquiry, at least in some fields, may need to become less exclusionary and more holistic.”Yet quite how that happens, Mr Menand dose not say.

　　[G] The subtle and intelligent little book The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University should be read by every student thinking of applying to take a doctoral degree. They may then decide to go elsewhere. For something curious has been happening in American Universities, and Louis Menand, a professor of English at Harvard University, captured it skillfully.

　　G → 41. B→42. D→ E →43.A →44.C →45. F