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According to the passage, why did politicians in each state capital in the U. S. trade accusations with each other? 
文章稱，美國各州首府政客為何互相指責？ 
(A) There existed too many thorny problems in the higher education system in the U. S.
美國高等教育體系存在太多棘手問題
(B) They found it difficult to solve the problem of skyrocketing tuition for university education.
他們發現大學教育學費飛漲的問題很難解決。
(C) There were too many candidates to compete for a position in local and federal governments.
候選人太多，無法競爭地方和聯邦政府的職位。 
(D) They wanted to find someone responsible for...

According to the passage, why did politicians in each state capital in the U. S. trade accusations with each other? 
文章稱，美國各州首府政客為何互相指責？ 
(A) There existed too many thorny problems in the higher education system in the U. S.
美國高等教育體系存在太多棘手問題
(B) They found it difficult to solve the problem of skyrocketing tuition for university education.
他們發現大學教育學費飛漲的問題很難解決。
(C) There were too many candidates to compete for a position in local and federal governments.
候選人太多，無法競爭地方和聯邦政府的職位。 
(D) They wanted to find someone responsible for the drastic increase in higher education tuition.
他們想找一個負責高等教育學費大幅上漲的人。

(文章)
In statehouses all over America this spring, politicians once again wrestled with the vexing problem of how to fund higher education. 
在這個春天，全美的州政府再次面臨如何資助高等教育的棘手問題，政治家們再次努力。

Their deliberations took place against a backdrop of finger-pointing and pain, as "they searched for someone to blame for skyrocketing tuition."
他們的討論在指責與痛苦的背景下進行，因為他們尋找責怪學費飛漲的人。

There are plenty of candidates, including the states, the federal government, universities and students themselves.
有很多可能的候選者，包括各州、聯邦政府、大學和學生自己。

But I worry that amid the din of recrimination, a major point is being lost: Our cherished higher education system, once a source of national pride and international envy, is now threatened with what I call “graceful decline.”
但我擔心在指責的喧囂中，一個重要的觀點被忽略了：我們珍愛的高等教育制度，曾經是國家自豪和國際羨慕的源泉，現在正面臨我所謂的“優雅衰落”。

Unless this threat is addressed, we face the likely prospect that our leadership in the knowledge-based economy will erode.
除非解決這個威脅，否則我們可能面臨知識經濟中的領導地位將會削弱的前景。

If we lose that edge, we won’t be able to sustain our extraordinary standard of living.
如果我們失去了這一優勢，我們將無法維持我們非凡的生活水平。

Since the middle of the last century, we have funded public higher education based on models that reflected a prevailing societal consensus.
自上世紀中葉以來，我們基於反映主流社會共識的模型來資助公共高等教育。

Each model has held for about 25 to 30 years, until either the consensus changed or the model could no longer be sustained.
每個模型都持續了大約25到30年，直到共識改變或模型不能再維持為止。

Our current funding model is now at the point of collapse. It’s time to ask: Where do we go from here?
我們目前的資助模型現在正處於崩潰的邊緣。現在是時候問：我們接下來該怎麼做了？