【单选题】

The new prestige of theBritish graduates is the most spectacular because in the pastBritain has been much (1) interested in universities and degrees than other advanced countries—or even some backward (2) In 1901 Ramsay Muir observed thatBritain had (3) universities per head than any other civilized country inEurope except Turkey.A、UNESCO survey in 1967 (4) Britain was still close to the bottom inEurope, in (5) of the proportion of the age-group from twenty to twenty-four who were enrolled in (6) education. Most continental countries in the last decade have expanded (7) higher education faster thanBritain. University statistics are notoriously difficult to compare, because of the different implications of the word "student"; in most continental countries anyone who (8) his final school exam—the baccalaureat (中学毕业会考)—is entitled to go into the university on the principle of "let him pass"; but he has (9) guarantees of tuition or personal attention. Partly as a result there are far more drop-outs and "ghost students"; in France half the students never become graduates.A、comparison of graduates, as opposed (10) students, showsBritain in more favorable light, for mostBritish students take a degree. (11) even in terms of graduates,Britain is still (12) in theEurope league.

Going to university is a much more solid (13) among the sons of the bourgeoisie in France or Germany than in (14) ; many of theBritish middle-classes— (15) the shopkeepers and small-business men—have tended to be skeptical, if (16) actually hostile, to university education for their children, and there are still rich and quite intelligent parents who will prefer their children to go straight (17) school into the city, to the army (18) to farming but the attractions of aBA、or an MA、have penetrated into areas, (19) among the rich and the poor, where they would not have been felt twenty (20) ago; and they are far-reaching.
A、eitherB、bothC、neither D、each