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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.
Since higher education has become a seller’s market, the national goal to increase college attainment .( )
选项 A、will be fulfilled in a short time
B、will be difficult to achieve
C、will draw more public concern
D、will demand more financial input
答案B
解析 本题是细节考查题。题目是：因为高等教育产业已经成为卖方市场，国家提高入学率的目标会怎样?选B的依据是第三段第一句：“As higher education has become a seller’s market，the institutions in aposition to do 80 are doing what comes naturally：raising their tuitionsand their admissions requirements，but at the expense of contributing tothe national goal to increase college attainment．”当高等教育成为卖方市场的时候，各所大学自然而然就会提高学费，提高入学门槛，其代价就是国家提出的提高大学入学率的目标很难实现。选项B的意思是很难达到，与原文意思相符。
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