I imagine a young man，a senior in high school.His academic performance is good enough.However，just as his parents are about to send the （1）

B

B

check to a college where he has been accepted，the young man admits that he doesn't want to go to college.He wants to work，to earn a living，to be out on his own.
   Children have to build their own lives.But parents don't want them to commit errors that will make it harder to build those lives.How should children and their parents think about this（2）

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A

？
   College is often discussed as a（n） （3）

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B

in the future：You pay up front so you can benefit abundantly for the rest of your life.The financial benefits of a college education over the past decades indeed look great.However，past performance won't necessarily ensure future returns.To make the plots more （4）

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C

，from 1989 to 2016，college tuition went up by 98 percent.This has led to a lot of student-loan debt.
   It may be worth the cost for some kids who want to go into a field that requires a college degree，but others don't know what they want to do after college，so for them college is like buying an expensive （5）

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A

for future employment.Still，it's worth noting that in 2019，just 66 percent of college graduates were in jobs requiring a college degree.What's more，as of 2010，only 27 percent were in jobs related to their college major.
   Perhaps you don't primarily use （6）

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C

analysis to make decision about your life or your child's.But everyone wants to be happy，and wants their child to be happy as well.So let's look at the （7）

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C

effects of college.
   Some scholars have found that，when controlling for other factors in life such as income and religious faith，education by itself has no independent explanatory（8）

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B

over happiness.Some actually believe that education is negatively linked to happiness，and hypothesize that some college attendees exchange life satisfaction for their academic（9）

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C

.And there's all that student debt to consider.According to a Gallup study，student debt is negatively correlated with financial and physical health and sense of purpose，and is （10）

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D

low well-being on these dimensions for as long as 25 years after graduation.
   （11）

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B

，the only thing we can say with assurance is， "It depends." On what？On the unique （12）

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C

of each person.A child's gifts，circumstances，and career ambitions all affect whether college is the right choice.Most of all，it depends on what they want to do.As a longtime academic，I can assure you that the No.1 （13）

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D

of a failure to thrive in college is not wanting to be there in the first place.
   That may be obvious to would-be students，but to many of their parents it isn't.The college decision is often as much about the parents as it is about their kids.It's easy to （14）

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A

our own desires onto our kids -- to try to see our own potential come alive through them.
   But it's a mistake.No one is a start-up enterprise，and there is not just one path to success.The college-for-all fever that has overtaken much of our culture（15）

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C

gifts that our kids have to develop and share.In fact，building their life with integrity and grit is what all parents could ever ask.

（1）	A．security	B．deposit	C．information	D．routine
（2）	A．dilemma	B．landscape	C．consequence	D．disappointment
（3）	A．shelter	B．investment	C．prospect	D．victory
（4）	A．evident	B．compelling	C．complicated	D．realistic
（5）	A．insurance	B．scam	C．maintenance	D．lesson
（6）	A．trial-error	B．question-answer	C．cost-benefit	D．pros-cons
（7）	A．health	B．society	C．happiness	D．education
（8）	A．concern	B．power	C．favor	D．a(chǎn)dvantage
（9）	A．prejudice	B．panic	C．a(chǎn)mbition	D．unemployment
（10）	A．a(chǎn)pplied to	B．blamed on	C．informed of	D．a(chǎn)ssociated with
（11）	A．However	B．Therefore	C．Otherwise	D．Furthermore
（12）	A．fates	B．decisions	C．a(chǎn)ttributes	D．inputs
（13）	A．qualification	B．coverage	C．witness	D．predictor
（14）	A．project	B．owe	C．a(chǎn)djust	D．prefer
（15）	A．highlights	B．justifies	C．ignores	D．visualizes