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  3. The case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation. All high school graduates ought to go says c

The case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation. All high school graduates ought to go says c

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问题    The case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation. All high school graduates ought to go says conventional wisdom and statistical evidence, because, college will help them earn more money, become "better" people, and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who don’t go.
   But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending, those who don’t fit the pattern are becoming more numerous, and more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students interfere with each other’s experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the intense competition for admission to graduate school. Others find no stimulation in their studies, and drop out—often encouraged by college administrators.
   Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves— they are  spoiled  and  they  are  expecting too  much.  But  that’s  a
condemnation of the students as a whole, and doesn’t explain all campus unhappiness. Other, blame the state of the world, and they are partly right. We’ve been told that young people have to go to college because our economy can’t absorb an army of untrained eighteen-year-olds. But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer absorb an army of trained twenty-two-year-olds, either.
   Some adventuresome educators and campus watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, the proper, the only place for every young person after the completion of high school. We may have been looking at all those surveys and statistics upside down, it seems, and through the rosy glow of our own remembered college experiences. Perhaps college doesn’t make people intelligent, ambitious, hap py, liberal, or quick to learn things—maybe it’s just the other way around, and intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, quick-learning people are merely the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place. And perhaps all those successful college graduates would have been successful whether they had gone to college or not. This is heresy to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if a little schooling is good, more has to be much better. But contrary evidence is beginning to mount up.
In this passage the author argues that______.
选项 A、more and more evidence shows college education may not be the best thing for high school graduates
B、college education is not enough if one wants to be successful
C、college education benefits only the intelligent, ambitious, and quick-learning people
D、intelligent people may learn quicker if they don’t go to college
答案A
解析 此题要求推断出作者的论点。纵览全文，作者首先提出 30多年来人们都认同人学并没有在每个人身上创造奇迹——有些大学生的举止行为令人不快或不齿。这种现象有两个原因：一是年轻人自己的过错，一是社会原因。所以上大学并不足高中毕业生最佳的、最合适的惟一出路(college may not be the best，the proper，the only place for every young person after the completion of high school)，而且越来越多的证据表明了此观点的正确性，所以[A]是正确答案。
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