The United States leads all industrial nations in the proportion of its young men and women who receive higher education. Why is

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问题    The United States leads all industrial nations in the proportion of its young men and women who receive higher education. Why is this? What motivates a middle-income family with two children to【C1】______ loans for up to $120, 000 so that their son and daughter can 【C2】______private universities for four years? Why would both parents in a low-income family take jobs to support their three children at a state university—each【C3】______an annual cost of $4,000? Why should a woman in her forties quit her job and use her savings to【C4】______ for the college education she did not receive when she was【C5】______?
   Americans place a high personal value【C6】______higher education. This is an attitude that goes【C7】______to the country’ s oldest political traditions. People in the United States have always believed that education is necessary for【C8】______ a democratic government. They believe that it prepares the individual【C9】______informed intelligent, political participation, including voting.
   Before World War II, a high school education seemed adequate for【C10】______most people’s needs, but the post-war period produced dozens of new questions for Americans. How should a- tomic【C11】______ be used? Should scientists be【C12】______ to experiment in splitting genes? Should money be spent on【C13】______astronauts into space—or should it be used for aid to another nation? Americans rarely express a direct vote on such complex matters, but the representatives they elect【C14】______decide such issues. In recent years,【C15】______ a result, many Americans have begun to regard a college education as necessary to becoming an informed American voter.
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答案maintaining

解析 此处意为:美国人民一直相信教育是维持一个民主性政府的基本,“维持/维护”为maintain,接在介词for之后,故用maintaining。
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