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  3. The United States leads all industrial nations in the proportion of its young men and women who receive higher education. Why is

The United States leads all industrial nations in the proportion of its young men and women who receive higher education. Why is

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问题     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【C1】_________loans for up to $ 120, 000 so that their son and daughter can【C2】_________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【C3】_________an annual cost of   $4, 000? Why should a woman in her forties quit her job and use her savings to【C4】_________for the college education she did not receive when she was【C5】_________?
    Americans place a high personal value【C6】_________higher education.  This is an attitude that goes【C7】_________ to the country’s oldest political traditions.   People in the United States have always believed that education is necessary for【C8】_________—a democratic government.   They believe that it prepares the individual【C9】 _________ informed intelligent, political participation, including voting.
    Before World War TJ , a high school education seemed adequate for【C10】_________most people’s needs, but the post-war period produced dozens of new questions for Americans. How should atomic【C11】_________be used? Should scientists be【C12】_________to experiment in splitting genes? Should money be spent on【C13】_________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【C14】_________decide such issues.   In recent years, 【C15】_________a result, many Americans have begun to regard a college education as necessary to becoming an informed American voter.
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答案maintaining
解析 这句话意思是“美国人民一直相信教育是维持一个民主性政府的基本”，“维持／维护”为maintain，接在介词for之后，故用maintaining。
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