Question

As high school students, Sang Tian and Huang Yunru dreamed of attending one of the world’s top universities．They slaved over their studies and were in the end admitted to famous schools – only one turned out to be far more famous than the other, according to new ranking （排名）of Asia’s top schools．

Huang Yunru, 19, went to the University of Hong Kong, the No 1 school in Asia．Sang, also 19, went to Tsinghua University, which was ranked a disappointing 16th in Asia．When Sang heard the news, he couldn’t believe his ears．“What? How can it be?” he said, greatly surprised.．

The new list of Asia’s top 200 universities was published last month by Quacquarelli Symonds （QS）, a UK-based career and education company．The ranking have started heated discussions among Chinese people, since the mainland’s top two schools – Peking University （PKU） and Tsinghua University – were not in the top 10.

Actually, this isn’t the first time that the schools have gone on poorly in regional or global ranking．The 2010 world university list released by the magazine US News & World Report ranked Peking University at 50th and Tsinghua University at 56th．They were the only two mainland schools in the top 100．Meanwhile, 37 US universities made the top 100 list．And three of 10 Hong Kong universities made the top 50.Chinese universities’ poor performance has saddened many students．“I can’t understand their standards,” said Sang．“At least we are a university with a long, proud history.”

According to the QS list, Chinese universities are doing OK in academic peer review, with both Tsinghua and Peking University scoring a full 100．But when it comes to student-to-faculty ratio（师生比）, their ranking drops, with Tsinghua at 22th and Peking at 23rd.John Hennessy, president of Stanford University, said at the Fourth Chinese-Foreign University Presidents Forum in early May that a lack of small-group discussions has seriously affected the teaching quality at Chinese universities．This has also resulted in students being afraid to question or challenge teachers.

1.Peking University （PKU） and Tsinghua University were in the top 10 in the ranking of Asia’s top schools．

2.There were no top 100 universities in the mainland according to the ranking.

3.Hong Kong universities are doing much better than the Chinese mainland ones in the ranking.

4.Peking University （PKU） and Tsinghua University are so famous that they are  not worried about the result at all.

5.One of the reasons for the mainland’s universities’ disappointing ranking is that there are simply not enough teachers for the large number of students.

Answer

1.B

2.B

3.A

4.B

5.A