Everyone knows how to get to Carnegie Hall: practice, practice, practice. But what about how to get into the nations most honorable university? For【C1】______high-school students today, the【C2】______for getting into that school can seem just as simple. The conventional wisdom is that keeping your head down【C3】______the single-minded pursuit of qualifications is the path to【C4】______It makes every election for every tiny organization a heated battle and makes classes almost a second choice. Every hour not spent in class is spent building a【C5】______resume: student council, National Honor Society, captaining the football teams, and joining a dozen other student organizations. Of course, that isnt to say that a 4.0 of Advanced placement classes isnt still【C6】______. Do all of that【C7】______youll get into Harvard, right? Well... 'We could fill our class twice over with those students,' Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust said. That means admissions officers rely on things like interesting essays or particularly unusual recommendations to decide who【C8】______the 5.9 percent of candidates who get in. Fausts top tip for【C9】______a Harvard man or woman: 'Make your children interesting! ' For parents and students【C10】______, thats both good news and bad news. The bad news is that of course its much easier to say that than to actually make it happen, 【C11】______Faust recommended encouraging children to【C12】______their passions as a way to develop an interesting personality. Its much easier to complete a checklist, however【C13】______, than to actually be interesting. 【C14】______the good news is that when colleges use this set of【C15】______, kids can focus on shaping their teenage years in a way that isnt just about trying to【C16】______resume line after resume line, and【C17】______focus on a more whole sense of self That seems like a far more【C18】______way to move through high school than spreading oneself too thin trying to get a lot of positions one cant really ever【C19】______That encourages an inferior approach to learning and society that is just the【C20】______of what the liberal arts have traditionally tried to encourage.
【C1】
A．adventurous
B．pessimistic
C．ambitious
D．imaginative