Hartwick college is a small liberal-arts school in upstate New York. Now it makes this offer to students, earn your undergraduate (67) in three years instead of four, and save about $ 43,000--the amount of one year’s (68) and fees. This could become the higher-education (69) of the fuel- efficient car.And that’s both an opportunity and a (70) for the best higher-education (71) in the world.
During the 1960s the United States made almost all of the world’s best (72) . Detroit’s Big Three--Ford, Chrysler, General Motors--sold more than 80 percent of cars in the United States. (73) that domination had its own inherent risks. The Big Three kept producing big gas guzzlers (高油耗汽车) (74) the Europeans and Japanese perfected (75) , fuel-efficient cars. Today, foreign competitors make most of the world’s best cars, and the Big Three (76) less than half the cars sold in the United States. A. episode B. equivalent
C. equipment D. equality

American higher education could learn a (77) from this. Many colleges and universities are (78) in the past. For instance,the idea of the fall-to-spring "school year" hasn’t changed much (79) the American Revolution, when students put their books away to work the soil (80) the summer. That long summer stretch no longer makes sense. While college (81) sit idle, they continue to generate maintenance, energy, and debt-service expenses that (82) to the high cost of running a college. Meanwhile, tuition has soared, leaving graduating students with unprecedented loan (83)

Expanding the three-year option or year-round schedules may be (84) , but it may be more palatable(宜人的) than (85) Congress for additional bailout money, or asking students for even (86) tuition payments.

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