2014年12月大学英语四级选词填空练习及参考译文（7）

　　Section A

　　Directions：In this section.there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one wordfor each blank from a list ofchoices given in a word bankfollowing the passage.Read the passage through carefully before maMng your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any ofthe words in the bank more than once.

　　Questions 36 to 45 are based on thefollowingpassage.

　　Public colleges must be stewards(管家)of tlle public’s trust and of students’and taxpayers’dollars.They should be(36)__________for containing costs and for spending on what matters most：prepanng students to be active learners，career-ready and engaged citizens.Public colleges are using myriad strategies to cut costs and keep college(37)__________.These include(38)__________administrative expenses;eliminating low-enrollment programs and student support services;and achieving cost savings in energy management and employee health care.

　　Fast-rising tuition increases may make it seem that institutional spendiiIg is out of(39)__________.However,public colleges’collective(40)__________per full.time studem has actuA.ly been flat in recent years.

　　The primary reason for escalating(逐步上升)tuition prices has been the state-to-student cost shift that has taken place in who pays for a public higher education.States have gradually(41)__________from their public higher education systems.with families picking up more of me tab through tuition increases.Institutions have first turned to reducing spending，only raising tuition prices to(42)__________academic quality.

　　The best way to mitigate future tuition increases is for state leaders to reinvest in public higher education.With the Great Recession finally behind us—during which states dramatically reduced(43)__________for public colleges and universities— state leaders started reinvesting in public higher education this year,providing a nearly 6%increase in funding.

　　Maintaining(44)__________to afrordable public colleges is paramount to our nailon’s economic security, social equity and civic vibrancy.It is(45)__________

　　upon state government，together with public colleges and universities，to ensure this happens.

　　A. raise

　　B.disinvested

　　C.fair

　　D.reducing

　　E.reinvest

　　F.affordable

　　G.tuition

　　H.accountable

　　I.afford

　　J.funding

　　K.incumbent

　　L.maintain

　　M.access

　　N.control

　　O.spending