(1)【It has often been remarked that the saddest thing about youth is that ii is wasted on the young】.(2)A recent newspaper report on a survey conducted annually among college freshmen states that today's students are "more materialistic and less altruistic(无私的)"than at any other time in the 17 years of the survey.(3)Not surprising in these hard times, students' major objective "is to be financially well off. Less important than ever is developing a meaningful philosophy of life". As a result ,the most popular college course today is not literature or history but accounting.(4)Student' interest in teaching, social service and other altruistic fields is at a low level, while enrollment in business programs, engineering and computer science is way up.(5)That s no surprise either. A friend of mine(a salesperson for a chemical company) was making twice the salary of her college instructors in her first year on the job—even before she completed her two-year associate degree.(6)"What good does their music(or history or literature) do them?"She was fond of saying. And that was four years ago. I don't think I want to know how much she earning now.(7)Frankly, I'm proud of the young woman一not of her attitude# but of her success.【But why can't we have il both way】s? Can't we educate people for life as well as for a career? (8)In a time of increasing specialization—a time when 90 percent of all the scientists who have ever lived are currently alive—more than ever we need to know what is truly important in life. Most of us learn this too late in life. It's only between the ages of 30 and 50 that most people finally arrive at the inevitable conclusion that they were meant to do more than serve a corporation, a government agency, or whatever. We realize that quality of life is not entirely determined by a balance sheet. 【Sure, everyone wants to feel that we have a perspective on the world beyond the confines of our occupation】； we want to be able to serve our fellow men.(9)If it's a fact that these realizations do not dawn until mid-life, is it then not the role of educational institutions to prepare the way for them?(10) While it's true that everyone needs a career—preferably a well-paid one一it's equally true that our civilization has amassed 【an incredible amount of knowledge in fields far removed from our own】 and that we are better for our understanding of these other contributions一be they scientific or artistic. It is equally true that, in studying the diverse wisdom of others, we learn how to think. More important, perhaps, education teaches us to see the connections between things, as well as to see beyond our immediate needs.(11)But the most important argument for a broad education is that in studying the accumulated wisdom of the ages, we improve our moral sense. I saw a cartoon recently that shows a group of businessmen looking puzzled as they sit around a conference table； one of them is talking on the intercom, “Miss Baxter，” he says, “could you please send in someone who can distinguish right from wrong?”(12)In the long run that's what education really ought to be about. And I think it can be. My college roommate, now head of a large shipping company in New York, not surprisingly was a business major. But he also hosted a classical music show on the college's radio station and listened to Wagner as he studied his accounting. That s the way it should be. 【Oscar Wilde was right when he said that wc nol only ought to give our ability to our work but our genius to our lives】.(13)Let's hope our educators answer the students cries for career education, but at the same time let s ensure that the students are prepared for the day when they realize what life is really all about.5.When he says "Most of us learn this too late in life" (para. 8), the author means _______.

I once ______ two little girls from Esthonia, who had narrowly escaped death from starvation in a famine.

However much you may acquire you will always wish to acquire more; satiety is dream which will always ______ you.

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it ______ on.

And from this thought have ______ all our subsequent troubles.

I neglected the opportunity to throw them both down, which would have given me ______ fame.

History does not relate whether the priest gave him ______.

Similarly, in any autocratic regime, the holders of power become increasingly ______ with experience of the delights that power can afford.

In _______ damp brown circles of soft earth the roses bloomed serenely against the pink Mexican wall.

Her hands and her neck began to sweat. But she knew that no emotion was _______.