Question

篇章填空：根据短文内容，选择所给词汇（或词组）的适当形式填空，完成短文。

apply          charge       compare           give up      employ increase        offer       opportunity          prepare       risk

Backpacking, volunteering, discovering the world — taking a “gap year” used to be the dream of every school leaver in the UK. It was a(an) 71.               for school kids to grow up and become better 72.                 for college life.

This year, however, thousands of UK high school graduates have 73.                  their gap year plans in order to go straight to university. Tuition fees are 74.                  next year in England and Wales, with some universities planning 75.                  three times as much as before.

Students can 76.               for a university a year earlier and ask the university to “defer(延期)” or hold their place while they take a gap year. This year however, just 6000 18 year-olds have deferred an

77.                 of a place on a university course 78.                 with 20,000 last years according to university admissions service UCAS.

Stuart Rees Jones, who is the founder of gap year company Camps International, is worried. “If students don't do a gap year, there’s a 79.                 they’ll have little to offer but a string of academic qualifications,” he told UK newspaper the Daily Mail. “What 80.                want are individuals. I have faith that future students will recognize this and want to do volunteer work. ”

Answer 1

71.  opportunity  72.  prepared  73.  given up  74.  increasing  75.   to charge    

76.   apply      77.   offer    78.   compared   79.   risk    80.   employers