O) Still, at the most selective schools, where thousands of candidates may submit identically high grades and test scores, a marginal item like the essay may serve as a tie-breaker between two equally qualified candidates. The thought is certainly enough to keep the pot boiling under parents like Meg, the lawyer-mom, as she tries to help her son choose an essay topic. For a moment the other day, she thought she might have hit on a good one. His father s from France, she says. I said maybe you could write about that, as something that makes you different. You know: half French, half American. I said, You could write about your identity issues. He said, I don t have any identity issues! And he s right. He s a well-adjusted, normal kid. But that doesn t make for a good essay, does it?

　　注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

　　46.Today many universities require their applicants to write an essay of up to five hundred words.

　　47.One recent change in college admissions is that selective colleges and universities have movedthe traditional deadline to earlier dates.

　　48.Applicants and their parents are said to believe that the personal essay can sway the admissions committee.

　　49.Applicants are usually better off if they can write an essay that distinguishes them from the rest.

　　50.Not only is the competition getting more intense, the application process today is also totally different from what baby boomers knew.

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