1.What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Desegregation of higher education produced many difficulties for historically black institutions.

B. The opening up of higher educational opportunities for blacks led to expanded opportunities for white students too.

C. Blacks have been historically repressed in graduate and professional schools in the United States.

D. Desegregation of higher education has brought more higher educational opportunities for black and white students alike.

2.What can be inferred about the opening up of segregated colleges and universities?

A. It came about as the result of a surge in the number of students enrolled in higher institutions.

B. It came about as the result of time-long resistance against racial discrimination against blacks.

C. It came about when the cry of "reverse discrimination" was raised.

D. It came about when efforts to expand educational opportunities for lower- and middle-class black people were intensified.

3.Which of the following is NOT one of the consequences of the opening up of segregated colleges and universities?

A. Black students were substantially underrepresented in graduate and professional schools in the United States.

B. It brought a significant increase in the number of white students.

C. It created thorny problems for historically black institutions.

D. The number of black students between eighteen to twenty-four years old enrolled in college greatly increased.

4. After the desegregation of higher education black students are still unlikely to .

A. get enrolled in traditionally white colleges

B. get enrolled in traditionally black institutions

C. complete college

D. get a Doctor's Degree in science

5.Which of the following is true about historically black institutions?

A. The students in historically black institutions are no longer predominantly black after the opening up of segregated institutions.

B. They created many problems for their students.

C. They achieved notable progress even though they were under great hardship.

D. The number of historically black institutions dropped in the 1960s and 1970s.

Vocabulary

1.desegregation n. 对种族隔离的取消

2.prolonged adj. 长时间的

3.predominantly adv. 主要地

4.bar v. 阻挡，禁止

5.encounter v. 遇到

6.substantially adv. 在相当程度上，很大地

7.underrepresented adj. 被忽视的

8.confer v. 授予，给予

9.reverse adj. 反方向的

10.discrimination n. 歧视

11.reverse v. 调转，转向