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【题目】请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卷上相应题号的横线上。

If You Get In, Make College Count

As tuition costs rise, with post-undergraduate (本科毕业后) jobs difficult to find, is higher education worth the cost?

Here is an unfortunate truth: For far too many incoming freshmen, college－any college－is not worth it. Year after year, students fail to get the full value of their tuition.

Many critics blame this cost/value problem on the universities, though each critic might point to a different reason: teachers always think of difficult research, the high costs of athletics, or the popularity of majors that are supposedly not suited to the new job market, to name some of their favorites.

But these are symptoms and not the illness itself. In our experience, the source of the wasted university experience begins with the student. Too often, students make bad choices or, frankly, just not enough great choices.

Too often we meet students who are so exhausted by the business of getting into college that they don’t work hard once they arrive－one of the most common wastes of time and tuition. A poorly constructed transcript (成绩单) can be destructive to a student’s education. Failure to engage and build professional working relationships with professors in office hours (which may lead to continued study, internships and more) also hurts the student’s experience.

Another mistake is failing to make use of the many support networks on today’s college campuses. It’s almost embarrassing how many good offerings are rolled into each tuition dollar, but most students don’t know they exist.

Another common point of failure is filling the schedule with too many extracurricular activities as students once did in high school, rather than getting intensely involved in one or two at most. The same can be said of overburdened course loads.

The final great failure we frequently see is the approach students (and their parents) take to selecting a major and accurately seeing its impact on a future career. University systems are not vocational schools. While critics nowadays complain about the attraction of useless majors — and some do exist — more frequently we see too many students pursue a course of study that is not their strength, simply because it seems to have obvious connections to a potential job after graduation.

Rather than perform poorly in a “practical” major and be of little interest as a future job candidate, we say it is better to major in a subject where a student would do well and master the tools of communication and analysis. Students who choose a unique major should complement (使更具有吸引力) that with some well-chosen skill courses, internships and other co-curricular activities that help them with career opportunities after college.

So, is college worth it? It can be. Studies show that college graduates have many advantages — material, social and emotional — that can lead to greater success later in life.

To get the full value out of college, students must be as diligent and creative about getting out of college as they were about getting in. After all, the most beautiful, Olympic saltwater pool does you no good if you don’t know how to swim.

Introduction	Students in college are 【1】 to get the full value of the constantly rising tuition. Critics hold that the universities are responsible for the problem, but actually it is students themselves that are to 【2】 .
Students’ mistakes	● Students tend to stop working hard after【3】 to college.
	● Students fail to take advantage of the 【4】 that colleges provide.
	●【5】 in too many extracurricular activities makes students overburdened with course loads
	● Students can’t adopt a correct【6】 to select a major and accurately see its future potential.
Author’s advice	● Take personal 【7】 and strength into account.
	● Learn the skills of communication and analysis.
	● Choose some skill courses, internships and other co-curricular activities to 【8】 future career chances.
	● Most importantly, 【9】 and creativity.
【10】	Students, and only students themselves, can get the best out of college, as long as they learn the skills to swim in the beautiful pool of college.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】unable / unlikely

【2】blame

【3】admission/ going

【4】resources / support

【5】participating / joining

【6】method / way

【7】strength(s)/advantage(s)/merit(s)

【8】increase / boost

【9】diligence

【10】Conclusion

【解析】

【1】unable / unlikely 根据短文第一段及第二段“students fail to get the full value of their tuition.”可知，大学生并不能获得他们所付学费的全部价值。应填unable / unlikely

【2】blame 根据短文第三段“In our experience, the source of the wasted university experience begins with the student.”可知，实际上学生才是应该被谴责的对象，blame责备。

【3】admission/ going 根据第五段“Too often we meet students who are so exhausted by the business of getting into college that they don’t work hard once they arrive－one of the most common wastes of time and tuition.”可知，大部分学生在进入大学后就不再努力学习了。

【4】resources / support 根据第五段“they don’t work hard once they arrive－one of the most common wastes of time and tuition.”可知，一些大学生没能很好地利用学校提供的资源。

【5】participating / joining 根据第七段中“Another common point of failure is filling the schedule with too many extracurricular activities”可知，一些学生参加太多的课外活动，导致自己负担过重。

【6】method / way 根据第八段“The final great failure we frequently see is the approach students (and their parents) take to selecting a major and accurately seeing its impact on a future career.”可知，最后一个大的失败是学生不能采取正确的方法选择一门专业，准确地看到它对未来职业的影响。

【7】strength(s)/advantage(s)/merit(s) 根据第七段中“more frequently we see too many students pursue a course of study that is not their strength, ... Rather than perform poorly in a “practical” major and be of little interest as a future job candidate,”可知，此处指的是要考虑自己的兴趣和优势。

【8】increase / boost 根据第九段中“Students who choose a unique major should complement (使更具有吸引力) that with some well-chosen skill courses, internships and other co-curricular activities that help with career opportunities after college.”可知，此处指的是选择一些技能课程来增加自己在职业上的机会。应填increase/ boost（增加/推动）。

【9】diligence 根据短文最后一段“students must be as diligent and creative about getting out of college as they were about getting in.”可知此处指的是，最重要的是要勤奋，有创造力。

【10】Conclusion 根据右栏内容可知，此处指的是这篇短文得出的结论。