【题文】Predictions about higher education’s future often result in two very different visions about what is next for colleges and universities. In one camp: those who paint a rosy picture of an economy that will continue to demand higher levels of education for an increasing share of the workforce. In the other: those who believe fewer people will enroll（入学）in college as tuition costs go out of control and alternatives to the traditional degree emerge.“We are living in an age for learning, when there’s so much knowledge available, that one would think that this is good news for higher education,” Bryan Alexander told me recently. Alexander writes often about the future of higher education and is finishing a book on the subject for Johns Hopkins University Press. “Yet we’ve seen enrollment in higher education drop for six years.”Alexander believes that for some colleges and universities to survive, they need to shift from their historical mission of serving one type of student (usually a teenager fresh out of high school) for a specific period of time. “We’re going to see many different ways through higher education in the future,” Alexander said, “from closer ties between secondary and postsecondary（中学后）schools to new options for adults. The question is, which institutions adopt new models and which try desperately to hang on to what they have.”“The fact is that to maintain affordability, accessibility and excellence, something needs to change,” Rafael Bras, Georgia Tech’s provost (院长), told me when he unveiled the report at the Milken Institute Global Conference this past spring.The commission’s report includes many impressive ideas, but three point to the possibility of a very different future for colleges and universities.1) College for life, rather than just four years. The primary recommendation of the Georgia Tech report is that the university turns itself into a place for lifelong learning that allows students to “associate rather than enroll.”“Students who we educate now are expected to have a dozen occupations,” Bras said. “So a system that receives students once in their lives and turns them out with the Good Housekeeping seal(印章) of approval to become alums (校友) and come back on occasion and give money is not the right model for the future.”2) A network of advisers and coaches for a career. If education never ends, Georgia Tech predicts, neither should the critical advising function that colleges provide to students. The commission outlines a plan in which artificial intelligence and virtual tutors help advise students about selecting courses and finding the best career options. But even for a university focused on science and technology, Georgia Tech doesn’t suggest in its report that computers will replace humans for all advising.3) A distributed presence around the world. Colleges and universities operate campuses and require students to come to them. In the past couple of decades, online education has grown greatly, but for the most part, higher education is still about face-to-face interactions.Georgia Tech imagines a future in which the two worlds are blended in what it calls the “atrium” — a place that share space with entrepreneurs and become gathering places for students and alumni.In some ways, as the report noted, the atrium idea is a nod to the past, when universities had agricultural and engineering experiment stations with services closer to where people in the state needed them.Whether Georgia Tech’s ideas will become real is, of course, unclear. But as Alexander told me after reading it, “There is a strong emphasis on flexibility and transformation so they can meet emergent trends.” This is clear: colleges and universities are about to undergo a period of deep change — whether they want to or not — as the needs of students and the economy shift.【小题1】What can we learn from the two camps’ opinions about future colleges?A．Future workforce will have high levels of education.B．The expensive traditional degree is losing its appeal.C．Traditional higher education is not practical.D．Declining enrollment in college results from easy learning.【小题2】What should traditional colleges do according to Alexander?A．They should provide new options for adults to enter colleges.B．The should strengthen the ties between secondary and postsecondary schools.C．They should abandon what they have and change their historical mission.D．They should offer more freedom to students throughout their life.【小题3】What can we infer from the commission’s report?A．Students can return for further study or make donations freely after graduation.B．Artificial intelligence and virtual tutors will perform better in career guidance.C．It focuses on how to make people enjoy good education without stress.D．There is no point in requiring students to be present at school.【小题4】The underlined words “two worlds” refer to _______.A．Basic education and higher educationB．entrepreneurs and studentsC．present education and future educationD．virtual education and real classes【小题5】What does the author think of atrium idea?A．It corresponds to the past idea in some way.B．It is hard to realize despite its flexibility.C．It makes some industries more accessible.D．It is a practical solution to the declining enrollment.【小题6】The passage mainly talks about _________.A．a reflection on the drawbacks of current higher educationB．the key factors which determine higher education’s futureC．two camps’ opposite opinions abouthigher education'sfutureD．a comparison between traditional and future higher education