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高三小练习3Section A (A)The Problem with Top-Schools Lists There are around 4,000 accredited universities and other higher education institutions in the United States. They offer an immense range of educational experiences, (25)_______ large research universities to small, friendly liberal arts colleges. This helps explain (26)_______ the United States attracts more international students than any other country, says Allan E. Goodman, president of the Institute of International Education, (27)_______ non-profit group promoting student exchanges to and from America. “While elite(精英) U.S. programs are among the top ten in the world,” Goodman says, “the unique strength of the U.S. higher education system is diversity.”There is no official ranking system to indicate which institutions are better than others, (28)_______ several unofficial rankings are listed by magazines and associations. However, educators urge caution in using a ranking table and emphasize that (29)_______ (good) choice for one student may be very different for another. Institutions of all types (30)_______ (spread) across the United States. Some students want a campus that will give them the excitement and rich cultural life of a big city such as New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles. (31)_______ value the peace and beauty of a rural setting, whether the quiet forests and snowy winters of the Northeast, subtropical Florida, the dry expanses of the West, or the Pacific coast with its seashore and nearby mountains. Many institutions have particular strengths in certain academic areas, (32)_______(make) them a good choice for students interested in those fields. (B)An evolving gameAsia has already become a center of the women’s professional game, and much of the growth in participation across the world is coming from women’s golf. Family-friendly facilities (33)_______(develop) for a new golfing demographic(人群) in the following years, (34)_______ more women are playing the game and men and women are increasingl