Text-1 Read the text. Then choose the correct answer for questions 1-2

43. The writer recognizes the fact that engineering...
A) is only suitable for highly intelligent students.
B) is becoming less and less popular among university students.
C) is a complicated subject only suitable for really mature students.
D) has become one of the most popular fields of study at universities.


44. Among the reasons given in the text for the decline in the numbers of engineering students is that...
A) engineering is not considered to be a competitive held of study.
B) the schools still follow out - dated curricula.
C) university entrance requirements are far too demanding.
D) many of them have insufficient mathematics and science background.