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You cannot place a value on education. Knowledge is the food of the soul, Plato supposedly remarked. Great literature "irrigates

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问题     You cannot place a value on education. Knowledge is the food of the soul, Plato supposedly remarked. Great literature "irrigates the deserts" of our lives, as C. S. Lewis put it. But a college education comes with a price tag—up to $ 60,000 a year for a four-year residential degree at an American university.
    A report by Pay Scale, a research firm, tries to measure the returns on higher education in America. They vary enormously. A graduate in computer science from Stanford can expect to make $1. 7m more over 20 years than someone who never went to college, after the cost of that education is taken into account. A degree in humanities and English at Florida International University leaves you $132,000 worse off. Arts degrees at 12% of the colleges in the study offered negative returns; 30% offered worse financial rewards than putting the cash in 20-year Treasury bills.
    None of this matters if you are rich and studying fine art to enhance your appreciation of the family Rembrandts. But most 18-year-olds in America go to college to get a good job. That is why the country’s students have racked up $1.1 trillion of debt—more than America’s credit-card debts. For most students, college is still a wise investment, but for many it is not. Some 15% of student debtors fail to pay within three years; a startling 115,000 graduates work as caretakers.
    If the job market picks up, this dismal picture will improve. But there is another obvious way to increase the returns on a college education: make it cheaper. The price of college has risen more than four times faster than inflation since 1978, easily outpacing doctors’ bills. Much of this cash has been wasted on things that have nothing to do with education—luxurious dormitories, bright stadiums and armies of administrators. In 1976 there were only half as many college bureaucrats as academic staff; now the ratio is one to one.
    By the universities’ own measures, this has produced splendid results. Students are more than twice as likely to receive "A" grades now than in 1960. When outsiders do the grading, however, they are less impressed: one study found that 36% of students " did not demonstrate any significant improvement in learning" over four years of college.
Statistics from Pay Scale’s report show that_________.
选项 A、going to college wastes both time and money
B、graduates from Stanford can earn more money
C、not all graduates from college are well-rewarded
D、it is better to put money in the bank than to go to college
答案C
解析 细节题。根据题干关键词Pay Scale可定位至第二段。该段主要列举大学毕业生的收入数据。选项[A]“读大学浪费时间和金钱”，该段列举了一些大学毕业生收入更高的例子，故该项表述错误。选项[B]“斯坦福大学毕业生赚的钱更多”，原文提到“A graduate in computer science from Stanford can expect to make$1．7m more over 20 years than someone who never went to college”，但并未指出所有斯坦福大学毕业生都是如此，仅仅提到“一个斯坦福大学计算机科学专业的毕业生”，故该项错误。选项[C]“并非所有大学毕业生都有丰厚回报”，该段最后一句“12％of the colleges in the study offered negative returns；30％ offered worse financial rewards”可以证明这点，故该项正确。选项[D]与[A]表述有点类似，过于绝对，可以排除。
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