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Three weeks ago, the school system in Alexandria, Va. , announced that 80% o

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问题     Three weeks ago, the school system in Alexandria, Va. , announced that 80% of the students who were about to graduate from T. C. Williams High School would be going on to college. That’s an impressive statistic. But when one looks at just what "going on to college" means nowadays — and what it will mean a couple of years from now we might do well to restrain our applause. In fact, it seemed to me that many of our staff endeavor to send as many warm bodies as they could on to higher education regardless of whether the students had the skills or motivation to do elementary high school work. High schools like mine, always eager for good press, can boast that they have prepared an ever greater percentage of their charges to move on to the halls of academe. And though colleges blame us in the high schools for sending them kids who are totally unprepared, they casually pocket the tuition from such students lest they have to downsize and lay off professors and administrators.
    While T. C. Williams boasts about the 80% going on to college, it makes no effort to track what happens to these kids. Nor does it ask another important question which is not how many make it through to a traditional college diploma, but how many need to? In a paper about to be released by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation: "Work and Workers for the 21st Century", it is pointed out that in 2018 as is the case today--two of three jobs in America will not require either a bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or an associate degree from a community college.
    And yet we educators and most parents- keep giving all kids the impression that without a college degree, they will be on a slippery slope to being forgotten and poor. In fact, for the majority of jobs, what will be needed even more than the subject matter we teachers think is so essential will be what are called soft skills. The report "Are They Really Ready to Work." put out by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and the Society for Human Resource Management, found that the four skills most prized by employers were a work ethic, an ability to collaborate with others, facility in oral communication and social responsibility. "Other than writing and reading English, no academic courses (including mathematics) make the top 10".
    And that’s good news for those thousands of students who graduated from high schools across America this month and are honestly wondering to themselves whether the encouragement of their teachers notwithstanding - the pursuit of a traditional college degree is the right next move toward a satisfying future. [br] Some high schools endeavor to push many students to colleges because they want to______.
选项 A、earn more money from the parents of their students
B、give their students the chance of receiving higher education
C、give the impression that their education qualities are good
D、establish a close connection with some famous colleges
答案 C
解析 事实细节题。根据第一段可知，许多高中在学生没有能力继续学习的情况下也把他们推进大学。定位句指出学校总是急于得到良好的印象，希望能够吹嘘自己的高升学率。原文中的always eager for good press是对high schools的修饰，和can boast an ever greater percentage一样都是对高中把学生推进大学的原因的说明。因此C)是本题答案。A)“从学生家长处挣更多钱”没有在原文中提到，故排除；B)“给学生一次接受高等教育的机会”不是根本原因，故排除；D)“和一些著名大学建立紧密的联系”没有在原文中讨论，故排除。
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