Looking ahead to 2010, it appears financially impossible to accommodate（容納）85000 new students in classrooms at four-year universities. Luckily, such a way is not necessary. Indeed, it’s not even proper.

       Several forces are riding to the rescue. The two most important are distance learning and community and technical colleges. These will not get rid of the traditional setting where bachelor’s（學(xué)士）and graduate degrees are earned. But they will be able to handle much of the growth in enrollments（注冊人數(shù)，入學(xué)人數(shù)）and the demand for higher education.

       “When faced with a problem created by technology, apply more technology.”a journalist once said. Higher education seems to be an example. New learning technology is an important tool in teaching new technology skill.

       William Richardson, president of Johns Hopkins University, praised “Western Governors University” — a virtual institution（虛擬大學(xué)）that uses the Internet and other information technology to overcome the vast distances of the West and reach people with education. “Just as the extremely controlled high school of old was perfect training for an assembly-line（裝配線）work force, so today’s college is equally proper as a setting for a society whose members must get and manage knowledge from a wide variety of sources.” He noticed.

       Eastern Washington has long been a leader in this movement. For the past decade, Spokane’s Education Service District 101 has brought the best teachers in the region to rural classrooms via satellite uplink. Washington Sate University （WSU）president Sam Smith reports that, during the same period, WSU managed one-third increase in students with only 2 percent more faculty（全體教員）.

       It’s been done by holding growth at the main campus almost flat, setting up three branch campuses, locating learning at community colleges, and offering an extended degree program where students learn at home. In each case, technology is used to extend the “reach” of faculty.

       The other cost-effective strategy is to trust community and technical college. Here Washington State has an edge（優(yōu)越條件）. Its public two-year colleges provide the most extensive coverage（保證金）in the nation. Jean Floten, president of Bellevue Community College, notes the system served 425,000 adult students last year — a tenth all the state’s adult population. Almost half were there for job training versus（與……相對）40 percent for academic（高等�？圃盒＃﹑reparation.

1．According to the author, to enroll more students, universities don’t have to         .

       A．enlarge their campuses

B．gain additional technical support

C．retain（保留）the traditional academic setting

D．a(chǎn)ccommodate more faculty members.

2．When the author says “Higher education seems to be an example” in Paragraph 3, he means problems with higher education can be solved by all EXCEPT              .

       A．a(chǎn)pplying new learning technology

B．using Internet and other information technology

C．teaching new technical skills

D．setting up more technical colleges

3．What has made possible “a one- third increase in students with only 2 percent more faculty”?

       A．Technical and community college.         B．New advances in science and technology.

       C．More learning centers.                          D．New school curricula.

4．Which way of education is mainly discussed in the passage?

       A．Traditional ways.                                 B．Top-ranked universities.

       C．Cost-effective strategies.                      D．Technology-based business.

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