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Rising College Selectivity Rising college selectivity doesn’t mean that students are smarter and more serious than in the pa

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问题                       Rising College Selectivity
    Rising college selectivity doesn’t mean that students are smarter and more serious than in the past. It’s a function of excess demand for higher education, occurring at a time of increased financial privatization of the industry.
    The recession has only increased demand. The vast majority of students aren’t going to college because of a thirst for knowledge. They’re there because they need a job, and they need to get the credentials and one hopes, the knowledge and skills behind the credentials—that will get them into the labor market.
    As higher education has become a seller’s market, the institutions in a position to do so are doing what comes naturally: raising their tuitions and their admissions requirements, but at the expense of contributing to the national goal to increase college attainment. The result is that the United States is losing ground in the international race for educational talent.
    The increasing stratification of higher education is happening on the spending side, as well. As the selective institutions have become more expensive and less attainable, the rest have had to struggle with the responsibility to enroll more students without being paid to do so. Gaps between rich and poor have grown even more dramatically than gaps in entering test scores. While spending is a poor measure of educational quality, we can’t seriously expect to increase educational attainment if we’re not prepared to do something to address these growing inequities in funding.
    That said, the educational policy problem in our country is not that the elite institutions are becoming more selective. The problem is on the public policy side. The president and many governors have set a goal to return America to a position of international leadership in educational attainment.
    It’s the right goal, we just need a financing strategy to get there. That doesn’t mean just more money, although some more money will be needed. It also means better attention to effectiveness and educational attainment. We know how to do it, if we want to.
What does the author think should be modified?( )
选项 A、The selectivity of elite institutions.
B、The industrialization of education.
C、The goal of education attainment.
D、The government’s funding strategy.
答案D
解析 本题是细节考题。题目是：作者认为哪方面应该得以修正?选D的依据是第五段第二句和最后一段第一句：“The problem is on thepublic policy side．和It’s the right goal，we just need a financing strategyto get there．”问题出在公共政策上。……这是一个正确的目标，但我们需要一个合理的财政策略帮助我们达成这一目标。选项D的意思是政府的财政策略，与原文相符。
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