III. Reading ComprehensionSection A Directions: For each blank in the following passage th

III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A,B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Nothing can better illustrate the failure of education in this country than the contrast between millions of college graduates finding it hard to get a proper job every year and the lack of workers in the more industrialized regions.
According to news from Dongguan (东莞), one of the     50     manufacturing centers in the Pearl River Delta (珠江三角洲) region in South China, “over 90 percent” factories have said they are finding     51     difficult to employ people from the second half of 2009, when the     52     began picking up and overseas orders restarted pouring in. Running to full capacity seems a dream that the factories had    53    . 
An awkward reality is that only few,     54    , of the new college graduates could really fill the vacancies because the trainings they have received are entirely     55     from the demands of the jobs. Nor will Chinese cities have enough workforce if they pursue a development model other than export-based manufacturing.
The     56     for that is simple: The knowledge about management graduates gather is totally out of step with reality,     57     of them can hardly express themselves in English or pose an email message properly, and     58     handle even paper work in a law service with the legal knowledge they have.
I     59     some college teachers, whom I went to college with, that the amount of time an average college student spends on studies today is less than half of what we     60     in the late 1970s when proper college education was recovered after the “cultural revolution” (1966-76).
“They (the administrations) have enrolled so many students just to     61     from their parents (tuition and other charges)”, one of the teachers said embarrassedly. “It's a nationwide phenomenon, you know.”
It is hard to believe that a country should not     62     education so seriously when there are no longer as many young people as before and view its opportunities only in terms of immediate financial gains, which greatly affects the quality of education.     63    , vocational education faces a double threat: frequent ups and downs in the business cycle and that of a flooding of cheap college certificates.
It is     64     in a country with rapid development in many fields to see little reform and progress in its education system. When colleges are reduced to money-making machines, they cannot help a society create enough workers, thinkers and leaders.
50. A. necessary                   B. key                          C. new                         D. remote
51. A. this                           B. that                         C. it                             D. as
52. A. economy                    B. country                    C. city                          D. industry
53. A. in the near future        B. at present time          C. from time to time      D. in the long past
54. A. and some                   B. but none                   C. if any                       D. because such
55. A. different                   B. same                        C. opposite                   D. similar
56. A. result                         B. method                    C. reason                      D. expectation
57. A. some                         B. most                        C. few                          D. all
58. A. can                            B. must                        C. can’t                        D. mustn’t
59. A. took from                  B. picked out                C. caught sight of          D. learned from
60. A. spent                         B. cost                         C. wasted                            D. detected
61. A. cost money                B. make money             C. create money            D. deal with
62. A. put                                   B. set                           C. make                       D. take
63. A. Although                   B. Besides                    C. However                  D. Therefore
64. A. mon                    B. likely                       C. worthwhile               D. surprising50----64    B C A D C   A C B C D   A B D B D