【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 21-24
It has often been remarked that the saddest thing about youth is that it is wasted on the young.
According to a recent survey, today's college freshmen are "more materialistic and less considerate of others" than at any time in the 19 years of the poll.The survey disclosed what I had already suspected from informal polls: if it (whatever it may be) won't compute, and you can't drink it, smoke it or spend it, then "it" holds little value.
Not surprising in these hard times, the student's major objective is "to be financially well off". Less important than ever is developing a meaningful philosophy of life. It follows then that today the most popular course is not literature or history but accounting.
Interest in teaching and social service is at a low, along with ethnic and women's studies. On the other hand, enrolment in business programs, engineering and computer science is way up.
That's no surprise either, A friend of mine was a sales representative for a chemical company. And she was making twice the salary of her college instructors her first years on the job -even before she completed her twoyear associate degree.
"I'll tell them what they can do with their music, history, literature, or whatever," she was fond of saying. And that was four years ago; I shudder to think what she's earning now.
Frankly, I'm proud of the young lady, though not her attitude but her success. But why can't we have it both ways? Can't we educate people for life as well as for a career?
In a time of increasing specialization, more than ever we need to teach young people what is truly important in life. Oscar wilde had it right when he said that we ought to give our ability to our work but our genius to our lives.