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There’ re currently 21.5 million students in America, and many will be fundin

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问题    There’ re currently 21.5 million students in America, and many will be funding their college on borrowed money. Given that there’ s now over $1.3 trillion in student loans on the books, it’ s pretty clear that many students are far from sensible. The average student’ s debt upon graduation now approaches $40,000, and as college becomes ever more expensive, calls to make it " free" are multiplying. Even Hillary Clinton says that when it comes to college, " Costs won’ t be a barrier. "
   But the only way college could be free is if the faculty and staff donated their time, the buildings required no maintenance, and campuses required no utilities. As long as it’ s impossible to produce something from nothing, costs are absolutely a barrier.
   The actual question we debate is who should pay for people to go to college. If taxpayers are to bear the cost of forgiving student loans, shouldn’ t they have a say in how their money is used?
   At least taxpayers should be able to decide what students will study on the public dime. If we’ re going to force taxpayers to foot the bill for college degrees, students should only study those subjects that’ re of greatest benefit to taxpayers. After all, students making their own choices in this respect is what caused the problem in the first place. We simply don’ t need more poetry, gender studies, or sociology majors. How do we know which subjects benefit society? Easy.
   Average starting salaries give a clear indication of what type of training society needs its new workers to have. Certainly, there’ re benefits to a college major beyond the job a student can perform. But if we’ re talking about the benefits to society, the only thing that matters is what the major enables the student to produce for society. And the value of what the student can produce is reflected in the wage employers are willing to pay the student to produce it.
   A low wage for elementary school teachers, however, doesn’ t mean elementary education isn’ t important. It simply means there’ re too many elementary school teachers already.
   Meanwhile, there’ re few who’ re willing and able to perform jobs requiring a petroleum engineering major, so the value of one more of those people is very high.
   So we can have taxpayers pick up students’ tuition in exchange for dictating what those students will study. Or we can allow students both to choose their majors and pay for their education themselves. But in the end, one of two things is true:
   Either a college major is worth its cost or it isn’ t. If yes, taxpayer financing isn’ t needed. If not, taxpayer financing isn’ t desirable. Either way, taxpayers have no business paying for students’ college education. [br] What message does the author want to convey in the passage?
选项 A、Students should think carefully whether to go to college.
B、Taxpayers should only finance the most gifted students.
C、The worth of a college education is open to debate.
D、College students should fund their own education.
答案 D
解析 推理题。原文倒数第二段指出，作者的观点里有两种选择：第一是让纳税人为大学教育买单，纳税人决定学生学什么知识。第二是允许学生自己选择专业，自己支付学费，这是一个二选一的问题。然而作者在最后一段的最后一句话提出，纳税人没有理由为学生教育买单，那么作者赞成的观点只有一种，即由学生自己为大学教育买单，故答案为D。A、B两项原文均未提及，故排除。C项关于大学教育价值的讨论不是本文的重点，重点是到底该由谁为大学生们的教育费用买单，该项理解片面，故排除。
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