英语专四考试完形填空练习题(1) There are more than forty universities in Britainnearly twice as many as in 1960. During the 1960s eight completely new ones mere founded and ten other new ones were created_31_concertin old colleges of technology into universities. In the same period the _32_ of students more than doubled, from 70,000 to _33_ than 200,000. By 1973 about 10% of men aged from eighteen _34_ twenty-one were in universities and about 5% of women. All the universities are private institutions. Each has its _35_ governing councils, _36_ some local businessmen and local politicians as _37_ as a few academics. The state began to give grants to them fifty years _38_, and by 1970 each university derived nearly all its _39_ from state grants. Students have to _40_ fees and living cost, but every student may receive from local authority of the place _41_ helices a personal grant which is enough to pay his full costs, including lodging and _42_ unless his parents are _43_. Most _44_ take jobs in the summer _45_ about six weeks, but they do not normally do outside _46_ during the academic year. The Department of Education takes _47_ for the payments, which cover the whole expenditure of the _48_, but it does not exercise direct control. It can have an important influence _49_ new developments through its power to distribute funds, but it takes the advice of the University Grants Committee, a body which is mainly _50_ of academics. |