填空题 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 1 loans for up to $120,000 so that their son and daughter can 2 private universities for four years? Why would both parents in a low-income family take jobs to support their three children at a state university—each 3 an annual cost of $4,0007 Why should a woman in her forties quit her job and use her savings to 4 for the college education she did not receive when she was 5 ?
Americans place a high personal value 6 higher education. This is an attitude that goes 7 to the country"s oldest political traditions. People in the United States have always believed that education is necessary for 8 a democratic government. They believe that it prepares the individual 9 informed intelligent, political participation, including voting.
Before World War Ⅱ, a high school education seemed adequate for 10 most people"s needs, but the post-war period produced dozens of new questions for Americans. How should atomic 11 be used? Should scientists be 12 to experiment in splitting genes? Should money be spent on 13 astronauts into space—or should it be used for aid to another nation? Americans rarely express a direct vote on such complex matters, but the representatives they elect 14 decide such issues. In recent years, 15 a result, many Americans have begun to regard a college education as necessary to becoming an informed American voter.