公共英语四级

填空题根据下面资料,回答题
Read the following text and fill each of the numbered spaces with ONE suitable word. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.
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 (21)_____loans for up to $120,000 so that their son and daughter can(22) _____private universities for four years? Why would both parents in a low-income family take jobs to support their three children at a state universityeach (23)_____ an annual cost of $4,000? Why should a woman in her forties quit her job and use her savings to (24)_____for the college education she did not receive when she was (25)_____?
Americans place a high personal value (26)_____ higher education. This is an attitude that goes (27) _____to the country´ s oldest political traditions. People in the United States have always believed that education is necessary for (28)_____a democratic government.
They believe that it prepares the individual (29)_____ informed intelligent, political participa-tion, including voting.
Before World War II, a high school education seemed adequate for (30) _____most people´ s needs, but the post-war period produced dozens of new questions for Americans. How should a-tomic (31) _____ be used? Should scientists be (32) _____ to experiment in splitting genes? Should money be spent on (33) _____astronauts into spaceor should it be used for aid to another nation? Americans rarely express a direct vote on such complex matters, but the rep-resentatives they elect (34) _____decide such issues. In recent years, (35)_____ a result, many Americans have begun to regard a college education as necessary to becoming an informed American voter.
第21题答案

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参考译文
在受高等教育的年轻男女比例方面,美国领先于所有工业国家。为什么呢?是什么驱使一个中等收入家庭为了儿女能读四年的私立大学贷款12万美元?为什么一个低收入家庭父母双方都工作以供他们的三个孩子上州立大学(每个孩子一年的开销是4000美元)?为什么一个四十多岁的女子会辞职,用自己的存款去报读年轻时未能接受到的大学教育?
美国人认为高等教育非常重要。这一态度可以追溯到这个国家最古老的政治传统。美国人始终认为教育对维护一个民主政府是非常必要的。他们认为教育为个人的政治参与(包括投票)做好了准备。
二战前,高中教育似乎满足大多数人的需要,不过内战时期,美国人面临了许多新问题。如,原子能怎么使用?科学家需要进行断裂基因实验吗?钱应该花在将宇航员送入太空方面还是用来帮助另一个国家?对于这些复杂问题,美国人很少直接投票表决,不过他们选举出来的代表们会做出决策。最近,很多美国人开始将大学教育看成是成为知情的美国选民的必须条件。
答案及解析
take【解析】根据上文,此处是“贷款”或“借贷”的意思,固定搭配为take loans。