Choose A FIGURE （NUMBER OR PERCENTAGE） from Reading Passage 1 for each answer.
Write your answer in Boxes 7-10 on your answer sheet.
7. German government spends ______of its GDP on the sectorof higher education.
8. ______ less of young people obtain a degree in Germany than in America.
9. There are ______more private insitutions of higher learning now than a decade ago.
10.Currently， there are over ______million German students studying in universities.
Choose the appropriate letters A-D and write them in boxes 11-13 on your answe sheet.
11. Which of the following features about German higher education is NOT true：
A. The number of studenst drop out in the tertiary educatoin is one of the highest among the rich countries in the world.
B. The universities have a higher position in the scale of the world concerning the number of students obtaining a degree.
C. The public univerities exercise fairly less autonomy and they also experience more “administratered competition ”。
D. The competition among the private universities is becoming incresingly tough and it is espceially true of business schools.
12. The word “scrapped” in the first line of the fourth paragraph means___________.
A. raised
B. lowered
C. charged.
D. cancelled
13. What benefits will Jacob‘s donation bring about for German tertiaray education？
A. It will enable the International univerity Bremen to have a tight financial base.
B. It will cause the other wealthiest Gemans to save as much money as he does .
C. It will help the states grant more authority to their univerisites in the future.
D. It will tempt the good students studying abroad for a degree to return to Germany.
Part II
Keys and explanations to the Questions 1-13
1. False
Explanation：
See the last sentence in Paragraph B “It may also soften the country's still rigid approach to higher education.”
2. True
Explanation：
See the first sentence in Paragraph C “…not least because universities were meant to produce top civil servants”。
3. True
Explanation：
See the second sentence in Paragraph D “But ever-rising student numbers then met ever-shrinking budgets， so the reforms backfired”
4. NOT GIVEN
Explanation：
See the third sentence in Paragraph G “It also explains why many focus on lucrative subjects， such as the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg.”
5. False
Explanation：
See the third sentence in Paragraph I “Mr. Jacobs has promised to donate �15m annually over the next five years and another �125m in 2011 to boost the endowment， but only if things go well”。
6. True
Explanation：
See the first sentence in Paragraph J “Private universities will play a small part in German higher education for the foreseeable future.”。
7. 1.1%
Explanation：
See the last sentence in Paragraph A “America devotes twice as much of its income to universities and colleges as Germany （2.6% of GDP， against 1.1%）。”
8. 17%
Explanation：
See the thrid sentence in Paragraph D “…only 22% of young Germans obtain a degree， compared with 31% in Britain and 39% in America……”
9. 45
Explanation：
See the fourth sentence in Paragraph E “…Today， there are 69 （non-faith-based） private institutions of higher learning， up from 24 a decade ago”
10. 2
Explanation：
See the second sentence in Paragraph G “…Private universities educate only 3% of Germany's 2m-odd students…”。
11. B.
Explanation：
See the last two sentence in Paragraph D “… only 22% of young Germans obtain a degree， compared with 31% in Britain and 39% in America. German universities come low in world rankings…”。
12. D
Explanation：
See the first sentence in Paragraph D “Tuition fees were scrapped in the name of access for all.”
13. C
Explanation：
See the second sentence in Paragraph J “…Mr Jacobs's gift will not only induce other German billionaires to follow suit， but also help to persuade the states to set their universities free.”
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