Question

The proportion of students from China's rural areas attending key universities has been falling significantly since the 1990s.

The high cost of a university education plus the difficulty of finding a job after graduation has contributed to the prevailing idea in the countryside that "education is useless," the People's Daily reported.

Many rural families are ending their children's education earlier and sending them out to work to alleviate their economic burden.

Entrance to elite universities is also becoming more difficult for students from the countryside because of fewer education resources or opportunities to travel.

Top universities favor students with a wider knowledge of the world and have developed other skills in addition to their high test scores alone, the newspaper said.

Peking University has about 10 percent of its students from rural areas at present, down from the 30 percent between the 1970s and early 1990s. Similar figures were reported at other universities, including Tsinghua University, also in Beijing, and Fudan University in Shanghai.

The rural poor, the newspaper said, used to believe that "education changes fate" but feel that is no longer true as they see more and more graduates returning home after failing to find a job.

Many families reportedly have been made poorer because of the cost of higher education. Sending a son or daughter to university could cost the equivalent of a family's income for 10 years in Gansu Province's Huining County. Half the families who had been lifted out of poverty had returned to that state again because of their investment in higher education.

61. All of the following statements may be true except _____.

A. The cost of higher education makes more families poorer.

B. More and more student from rural areas can be admitted into key universities.

C. More graduates are difficult to find a proper job.

D. Students from cities are wider knowledge of the world and skills than those from rural areas.

62. The underlined word “elite” in the fourth paragraph probably means that _____.

A. talented         B. experienced       C. distinguished      D. gifted.

63. The writer’s attitude toward fewer rural students at colleges is _____.

A. optimistic       B. objective         C. subjective         D. anxious

64. From the passage we know that _____.

A. More students are willing to study rather than find a job.

B. Most graduates can’t find jobs.

C. Most students from the countryside can’t be admitted into key universities.

D. Investment in higher education is popular among families.

65. Students from China’rural areas attending key universities have been falling significantly because of _____.

A. the high cost of a university education

B. the poor test scores

C. fewer education resources or opportunities to travel

D. a wide knowledge of the world and other special skills

Answer 1

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