Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
Perhaps because going to college is so much a part of the American dream, many people go for no (26) _____ reason. Some go because their parents expect it, others because it’s what their friends are doing. Then, there’s the belief that a college degree will (27) _____ ensure a good job and high pay.
Some students (28) _____ through for years, attending classes, or skipping(逃课)them as the case may be, reading only what can’t be avoided, looking for less (29)_____courses, and never being touched or changed in any important way. For a few of these people, college provides no (30) _____, yet because of parental or peer pressure, they cannot voluntarily leave. They stop trying in the hope that their teachers will make the decision for them by (31) _____ them.
To put it bluntly(直截了当地), unless you're willing to make your college years count, you might be (32) _____ doing something else. Not everyone should attend college, nor should everyone who does attend begin right after high school. Many college students (33) ____ taking a year or so off. A year out in the world helps some people to (34) _____ their priorities and goals. If you're really going to get something out of going to college, you have to make it mean something, and to do that you must have some idea why you’re there, what you hope to get out of it, and (35) _____ even what you hope to become.
