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根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。

Wrong Reasons for Going to College

A college education can be priceless. __1.___ If any of these following factors had a big influence on your decision, you’re probably right to second-guess yourself.

◆Because someone else expects it from you.

Perhaps you come from a family where everyone goes to college. Or maybe, you’re the kid that everyone is proud to believe will be the first to get there. ___2._____. It’s become so much a part of the air you breathe that you’ve never stopped to consider whether you want to go or whether you’re ready to go.

◆Because all your friends are going.

In only a few weeks’ time, the whole friend group will be scattered to a half dozen different colleges in a half dozen different places. ____3.___Friends would wonder what’s wrong with you. Some would take it as a betrayal of the dreams you’ve dreamed together and the plans you’ve made.

◆____4.___

It’s been tough to find even a summer job. You don’t have an alternative plan. Everyone else is doing it . You think you might as well go to school. That is the lamest of reasons to spend $20,000 or more in the next year.

◆Because you are afraid you’ll regret it if you don’t go.

Your uncle tells you that his one regret in life is that he didn’t go to college. Others tell you that they could have gone so much farther in their career if only they had a college education. _____5.___ So this is not a persuasive reason for you to go to college.

A. Not to go would be set yourself apart.

B. Because you don’t know what else to do.

C. That’s much too fine.

D. It seems that for years everyone has just assumed that of course you’ll go.

E. Everyone seems more excited than you are.

F. But maybe in your heart you know that you are going for the wrong reasons.

G. Whatever the story is, there are always people who regret decisions they’ve made.

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