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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.
The most appropriate title for this text is_________.
选项 A、Knowledge: the Food of Soul
B、Reward of College Education
C、College: the Only Way to Success
D、Working Experience or Higher Education?
答案B
解析 主旨题。文章首段通过引用柏拉图的话引出话题：college education；第二段通过数据显示大学教育的回报；第三段讲述许多大学生负债或找不到好工作；第四段提出提高教育回报的一种手段：减少投入；最后一段讲述许多大学生在大学期间没做出成绩。综合起来看，文章都在讨论大学教育的回报，故选项[B]正确；而选项[A]只是对原文第一段第二句的说明；选项[C]过于绝对，且原文中并未提及成功的途径，故排除；选项[D]与原文表述不符，原文第三段第二句虽然提到工作与教育相关的表述，但并未对二者做出选择，而是说大部分美国学生接受高等教育是为了获得一份好工作，该选项错误且过于细节，因而无法概括全文中心，故排除。
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