Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)
Section C(复合式听写调整为单词及词组听写，短文长度及难度不变。)
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Growing numbers of bright students face missing out on their first choice university, academics warned today, as figures showed three-quarters of institutions are being forced to reduce places.
Almost 100 out of 130 universities in England could be forced to take fewer 26__________ this year, following the introduction of Coalition reforms designed to drive down 27__________ fees.
Many members of the elite Russell Group are among those facing 28__________ , with Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Southampton being particularly 29__________ .
Data from the Government’s Higher Education Funding Council for England suggests some newer universities such as Bedfordshire and East London are expecting to lose around one-in-eight places.
The cuts are being 30__________ following the introduction of new rules that effectively 31__________ universities charging more than ￡7,500 in student fees from this autumn.
It means large numbers of places are being 32__________ towards cheap further education colleges.
Ministers are also lifting controls on the number of bright students gaining at least two A grades and a B at A-level that universities can recruit— 33__________an inevitable scramble towards a small number of top institutions.
The funding council’s chief executive denied the loss of student places would tip any institution into significant financial trouble.
But Prof Michael Farthing, vice-chancellor of Sussex University and chairman of the 1994 Group, which represents many small research institutions, said the figures show that many excellent students will be denied places at their first choice universities.
“The number of students universities are allowed to recruit has been cut across the sector, with 20,000 places 34__________ to institutions with lower than average fees, ” he said.
“Far from giving the best universities freedom to 35__________ more students, this represents a push to a cut-price education.”
