Passage Sixteen
Intelligent young people want to go to university, and it is 1 for a country to provide university places for them to ensure that there will be goodtrained men and women to 2 the Government and industry in the future. So in the 1960s the Government 3 up a number of new universities in Britain to give everyone with 4 ability the opportunity to study. But now something has gone wrong. There is still fierce 5 to go to university to study arts subjects, but many places for scientists are not taken 6 .
The new universities concentrated on science because it seemed 7 . They developed new courses so as not to imitate traditional university education. Why have their calculations proved wrong? One 8 is that a lot of young people can get enough qualifications to work in ｉndustry by going to a technical school. They think university courses are too long and too 9 . But this does not explain 10 the majority of students still prefer arts subjects to science subjects.
1.［A］ possible ［B］ nice ［C］ certain ［D］ logical 2.［A］ run ［B］ control ［C］ influence ［D］ hold 3.［A］ established［B］ raised ［C］ gave ［D］ set 4.［A］ much ［B］ little ［C］ sufficient ［D］ big 5.［A］ match ［B］ battle ［C］ competition［D］ struggle 6.［A］ down ［B］ out ［C］ up ［D］ in 7.［A］ reasonable ［B］ practical［C］ complicated［D］ thoughtful 8.［A］ reason ［B］ fact ［C］ cause ［D］ reality 9.［A］ easy ［B］ expensive［C］ practical ［D］ theoretical 10.［A］ how ［B］ why ［C］ whether ［D］ when