2013届（2012学年）上海市高三英语一模——完形填空7
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German universities, known for their excellence throughout the world in the early part of the 20th century, are in a state of decline, according to Michael Burda, an American economics professor at Berlin’s Humholdt University．
Burda claims that Germany’s 300 schools of 50 learning are being hurt by “a long-time shortage of general 51 ．
“No statistic（统计数字） makes this more evident than a low proportion of young Germans actually 52 university-level degrees,” he says．
Only 22 per cent of German students aged 24-34 53 complete their university studies．That’s compared to 31 percent in the UK, and 39 percent in the US, 54 the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development （OECD）．
