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s he has a means of expressing it in terms able to be seen by another 7_________ member of his linguistic munity。 he bas to give the system a concrete transmission form. We take it for granted the two most 8____________ mon forms of transmissionby means of sounds produced by our vocal ans (speech) or by visual signs (writing). And these are 9_____________ among most striking of human achievements. 10____________ 2022 年專八真題短文改錯 The University as Busines A number of colleges and universities have announced steep tuition increases for next year much steeper than the current, very low rate of inflation. They say the increases are needed because of a loss in value of university endowments heavily investing in mon 1 ________ stock. I am skeptical. A business firm chooses the price that maximizes its revenues, irrespective fluctuations in ine。 and increasingly the 2 _________ outlook of universities in the United States is indistinguishable from those of 3 ___________ business firms. The rise in tuitions may reflect the fact economic uncertainty 4__________ increases the demand for education. The biggest cost of being in the school is foregoing ine from a job (this is primarily a factor in 5 __________ graduate and professionalschool tuition)。 the poor one39。s job prospects, 6 ___________ the more sense it makes to reallocate time from the job market to education, in order to make oneself more marketable. The ways which universities make themselves attractive to students 7 ___________ include soft majors, student evaluations of teachers, giving students a governance role, and eliminate required courses. 8 _________ Skyhigh tuitions have caused universities to regard their students as customers. Just as business firms sometimes collude to shorten the 9 ___________ rigors of petition, universities collude to minimize the cost to them of the athletes whom they recruit in order to stimulate alumni donations, so the best athletes now often bypass higher education in order to obtain salaries earlier from professional teams. And until they were stopped by the antitrust authorities, the Ivy League schools colluded to limit petition for the best students, by agreeing not to award scholarships on the basis of merit rather than purely of needjust like business firms agreeing not to give discounts on their best 10 ____________ customer.