Directions:
Read the following text, choose the best word for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.

British universities, 1 under the burden of a huge increase in student numbers, are 2 that the tradition of a free education is at 3 . The universities have 4 to impose an admission fee on students to 5 a gap in revenue if the government does not act to improve their finances and 6 some public spending cutbacks.
The government responded to the universities’ threat by setting up the most fundamental 7 of higher education for a generation, under a non-party troubleshooter, Sir Ron Dearing.
One in three school-leavers enters higher education, five times the number when the last review took place thirty years ago.
Everyone agrees a system that is feeling the 8 after rapid expansion needs a lot more money--but there is little hope of getting it from the taxpayer and not much 9 for attracting more finance from business.
Most colleges believe students should 10 to tuition costs, something that is common elsewhere in the world 11 would mark a revolutionary change in Britain. Universities want the government to introduce a loan 12 for tuition fees and have suspended their own threatened action for now. They 13 Dearing’s advice, hoping it will not be too late--some are already reported to be in financial difficulty.
As the century 14 its end, the whole 15 of what a university should be is under the microscope. Experts 16 how much they can use computers instead of classrooms, talk of the need for 17 learning and refer to students as "consumers".
The Confederation of British Industry, the key employers’ organization, wants even more expansion in higher education to help fight competition on world markets from 18 Asian economies. But the government has doubts 19 more expansion. The Times newspaper agrees, complaining that quality has suffered as student numbers 20 , with close tutorial supervision giving way to "mass production methods more typical of European universities."