Question 6 is based on the conversation you have just heard.

Conversation Two

W: According to a study of race and equity in education, black athletes are dropping out of college across the country at alarming rates. With us to talk about the findings in the study is The Washington Post columnist Kevin Blackistone. Good morning.

M: Good morning, how are you?

W: Fine, thank you. What is new that you found in this study?

M: Well, this is Shaun Harper’s study, and he points out that on major college campuses across the country, black males make up less than 3 percent of undergraduate enrollments. Yet, when you look at their numbers or percentages on the revenue-generating sports teams of football and basketball, they make up well into 50 to 60 percent of those teams. So the idea is that they are really there to be part of the revenue-generating working class of athletes on campus and not necessarily there to be part of the educating class as most students in other groups are.

W: Compared with other groups, I think the numbers in this group, at those 65 schools, are something like just barely more than half of the black male athletes graduate at all.

M: Exactly. And what’s really bad about this is these athletes are supposedly promised at least one thing as reward for all their blood and sweat. And that is a college degree, which can be a transformative tool in our society when you talk about upward mobility. And that’s really the troubling part about this. 

W: Well, this has been talked about so much, really, in recent years. Why hasn’t it changed?

M: Well, I think one of the reasons it hasn’t changed is that there’s really no economic pressure to change this. All of the incentive is really on winning and not losing on the field or on the court. Coaches do not necessarily have the incentive to graduate players.

6. What is the new finding about black male athletes in this study?

解析：D。本题目为推理题。问题为：关于黑人男性运动员，最新研究发现了什么？原文所在句：Well, this is Shaun Harper’s study, and he points out that on major college campuses across the country, black males make up less than 3 percent of undergraduate enrollments. Yet, when you look at their numbers or percentages on the revenue-generating sports teams of football and basketball, they make up well into 50 to 60 percent of those teams. Shaun Harper的研究指出，全国主要大学中，黑人男性的大学毕业率不到3%，但是他们在足球和篮球运动队中，收入百分比和数字却占到了队里创收的50%到60%。故正确答案为D）They make money for the college but often fail to earn a degree（他们可以为大学赚钱但是常常难以获得学位）。此题目较难，需要理解原文，同时读懂选项。原文提到了黑人男性的低毕业率和高比赛创收比，选项D所表达的“可以赚到钱，但是学业上得不到学位”与之相一致。