When I entered Berkeley，I hoped to earn a scholarship.Having been a StraightA student，I believed I could ____tough subjects and really learn something.One such course was World Literature given by Professor Jayne.I was extremely interested in the ideas he ____in class.
When I took the first exam，I was ____ to find a 77，Cplus，on my test paper，____ English was my best subject.I went to Professor Jayne, who listened to my arguments but remained ____.
I decided to try harder.Although I didn"t know what that ____because school had always been easy for me.I read the books more carefully，but got another 77.Again，I ____with Professor Jayne.Again，he listened patiently but wouldn"t change his ___.
One more test before the final exam.One more ____ to improve my grade.So I redoubled my efforts and，for the first time, ____the meaning of the word “thorough”．But my ___ did no good and everything ___ as before
The 1ast hurdle(障碍)was the final.No matter what ____ I got，it wouldn"t cancel three Cpluses.I might as well kiss the ____ goodbye.
I stopped working hard.I felt I knew the course material as well as I ever would.The night before the final，I even ____ myself to a movie.The next day I decided for once I"d have ____ with a test.
A week later，I was surprised to find I got an A．I hurried into Professor Jayne"s office.He ______to be expecting me.“If I gave you the As you ____，you wouldn"t continue to work as hard.”
I stared at him，____ that his analysis and strategy(策略)were correct.I had worked my head ____，as I had never done before.
I was speechless when my course grade arrived：Aplus.It was the only Aplus given.The next year I received my scholarship.I"ve always remembered Professor Jayne"s lesson：you alone must set your own standard of excellence.
| 小题1: | | A．take | B．discuss | C．cover | D．get |
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| 小题2: | | A．sought | B．presented | C．exchanged | D．obtained |
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| 小题3: | | A．shocked | B．worried | C．scared | D．anxious |
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| 小题5: | | A．unchanged | B．unpleasant | C．unfriendly | D．unmoved |
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| 小题6: | | A．reflected | B．meant | C．improved | D．affected |
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| 小题7: | | A．quarreled | B．reasoned | C．bargained | D．chatted |
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| 小题8: | | A．attitude | B．mind | C．plan | D．view |
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| 小题9: | | A．choice | B．step | C．chance | D．measure |
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| 小题10: | | A．memorized | B．considered | C．accepted | D．learned |
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| 小题11: | | A．ambition | B．confidence | C．effort | D．method |
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| 小题12: | | A．stayed | B．went | C．worked | D．changed |
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| 小题13: | | A．grade | B．answer | C．lesson | D．comment |
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| 小题14: | | A．scholarship | B．course | C．degree | D．subject |
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| 小题15: | | A．helped | B．favored | C．treated | D．relaxed |
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| 小题16: | | A．fun | B．luck | C．problems | D．tricks |
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| 小题17: | | A．happened | B．proved | C．pretended | D．seemed |
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| 小题18: | | A．valued | B．imagined | C．expected | D．welcomed |
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| 小题19: | | A．remembering | B．guessing | C．supposing | D．realizing |
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小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:C
小题5:D
小题6:B
小题7:B
小题8:B
小题9:C
小题10:D
小题11:C
小题12:B
小题13:A
小题14:A
小题15:C
小题16:A
小题17:D
小题18:C
小题19:D
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小题1:答案 A [句意：由于一直是个优秀的学生，我相信我能够学习难学的课程并且真正学习到知识。表示“学习……课程”用take...subjects。]
小题2:答案 B [本句中表示老师授课时表达出来的思想，应该用present，表示“呈现，展示”。]
小题3:答案 A [与上文的Having been a StraightA student，I believed...形成对比，当知道自己得了77分时，作者无疑是“震惊的”。]
小题4:答案 C [该句是下句I went to Professor Jayne的原因，故用for，表示原因。]
小题5:答案 D [与下文中的．..but wouldn"t change his __8__相对应，本句中应表示Jayne教授并没有被打动，故用unmoved。unchanged不改变；unpleasant不愉快的；unfriendly不友好的；unmoved冷漠的，不被打动的。]
小题6:答案 B [mean在此表示“意味着”。]
小题7:答案 B [当又得了一个77分时，“我”去与Jayne教授评理，表示“评理”用reason。quarrel争吵，用在学生与老师之间明显不妥；bargain讨价还价，与语境不符；chat聊天，自己在生气的情况下不可能去与老师“闲聊”。]
小题8:答案 B [change表示“改变”。虽然“我”去与教授评理，但他并没有改变“主意”。故空格处须用mind。]
小题9:答案 C [在没法说动教授的情况下，“我”所能做的只有尽全力提高成绩，因而每一次考试都是“我”提高自己成绩的“机会”。故应使用chance。]
小题10:答案 D [由于自己竭尽全力学习，“我”领悟到了“一丝不苟”的含义，表示“领悟”用learn。]
小题11:答案 C [but一词对于本段中描述的情形进行转折，也就是说，虽然自己付出了巨大的努力，但是考试成绩并没有改进，故应使用effort，表示“努力”。]
小题12:答案 B [as before表示“像以前一样”。由11题解析可知，该空格处用go。]
小题13:答案 A [最后的障碍是期末考试，而由于整个学期我的成绩一直是在C等，所以无论期末考试我得到什么等级，我的三个C等成绩也不会取消，所以应选择grade，表示“等级”。]
小题14:答案 A [既然成绩是C等，那么也就与奖学金无缘了，故应选择A项。]
小题15:答案 C [在对奖学金不抱什么希望且对所学的知识已经掌握很好的情况下，“我”在考试前去看了场电影，这里的看电影实际上是在“奖励”自己，故用treat，表示“款待”。]
小题16:答案 A [for once表示“就此一次”。因为自己屡受挫折，故而自己决定这次考试不再“郑重对待”，故用have fun with。]
小题17:答案 D [由于有了前几次自己去与Jayne教授的评理，故而出了成绩后，教授似乎在等着“我”再去见他，也就是教授觉得“我”会再去找他。]
小题18:答案 C [句意：如果我给了你所希望的A等，你就不会继续那样努力学习了。value重视；imagine想象；expect期望；welcome欢迎。故C项正确。]
小题19:答案 D [Jayne教授说明了给“我”C等的理由，“我”也意识到了他的分析和策略是正确的，表示“意识到”用realize。]
小题20:答案 D [work one"s head off表示“拼命工作，拼命学习”，是固定搭配。] |
核心考点
试题【When I entered Berkeley，I hoped to earn a scholarship.Having been a StraightA s】；主要考察你对
题材分类等知识点的理解。
[详细]举一反三
Tim Richter and his wife, Linda, had taught for over 30 years near Buffalo, New York—he in computers, she in special education.“Teaching means everything to us，” Tim would say. In April 1998, he learned he would need a heart operation. It was the kind of news that leads to some serious thinking about life"s purpose.
Not long after the surgery, Tim saw a brochure describing Imagination Library, a program started by Dolly Parton"s foundation (基金会) that mailed a book every month to children from birth to age five in the singer"s home town of Sevier, Tennessee. “I thought, maybe Linda and I could do something like this when we retire，”Tim recalls. He placed the brochure on his desk，“as a reminder.”
Five years later, now retired and with that brochure still on the desk, Tim clicked on imagination library .com. The program had been opened up to partners who could take advantage of book and postage discounts.
The quality of the books was of great concern to the Richters. Rather than sign up online, they went to Dollywood for a looksee. “We didn"t want to give the children rubbish，” says Linda. The books reviewed each year by teachers, literacy specialists and Dollywood board members included classics such as Ezra Jack Keats"s The Snowy Day and newer books like Anna Dewdney"s Llama Llama series.
Satisfied, the couple set up the Richter Family Foundation and got to work. Since 2004, they have shipped more than 12,200 books to preschoolers in their area. Megan Williams, a mother of four, is more than appreciative: “This program introduces us to books I"ve never heard of .”
The Richters spend about $400 a month sending books to 200 children. “Some people sit there and wait to die，” says Tim. “Others get as busy as they can in the time they have left.”
小题1:What let Tim think seriously about the meaning of life?| A．His health problem. | B．His love for teaching. | | C．The influence of his wife. | D．The news from the Web. |
小题2:What did Tim want to do after learning about Imagination Library?| A．Give out brochures. | B．Do something similar. | | C．Write books for children. | D．Retire from being a teacher. |
小题3:According to the text，Dolly Parton is________.| A．a wellknown surgeon | B．a mother of a fouryearold | | C．a singer born in Tennessee | D．a computer programmer |
小题4:Why did the Richters go to Dollywood?| A．To avoid signing up online. | | B．To meet Dollywood board members. | | C．To make sure the books were the newest. | | D．To see if the books were of good quality. |
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The young woman entered the pool where an injured dolphin(海豚) was swimming.Despite her fear, she felt strong wearing her new leg.
In her second grade.Maja ____ her cousin，Jasmina.After Jasmina"s death，Maja swore she would honor the little girl by ___ with a dolphin, an animal that both girls ____. “ Jasmina never got the chance to do it.” says Maja, now 32, “so I ____ that someday I"d do it for her.”
In high school, Maja was ____ about sports.She even planned to become an athlete.____， in 1993, during the civil war in her home country, a bomb ____ her left leg.
After two years" ____ in the U．S., Maja received her first artificial (人造的)leg, but ____ it didn"t fit well, walking for Maja was very painful. ____， she managed to graduate from a local high school.Then after receiving a ____ from Saint Francis University, she got a job at an insurance firm and ____ started her own company.
To relax, Maja ____ often watch the dolphins play at an aquarium(水族馆)near her home.A young dolphin, Winter, who had lost its tail, caught her ____. One day, Maja happened to see trainers ____ Winter with a hightech tail.When they were done, Winter swam freely in the water.Maja was ____.She managed to find the inventors of Winter"s tail.Within ten days, she had a new leg which freed her of the ____ that had troubled her for almost 16 years.
Now Maja was ready to keep her ____.She went to the aquarium, lowered herself into the pool and held out a hand to Winter, who approached ____， then swam away.After a few minutes, the dolphin let Maja ____ its back. Finally, the two began to swim around the pool together.
| 小题1: | | A．lost | B．visited | C．rescued | D．left |
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| 小题2: | | A．talking | B．living | C．swimming | D．surfing |
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| 小题3: | | A．adored | B．adopted | C．possessed | D．purchased |
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| 小题4: | | A．pretended | B．decided | C．preferred | D．agreed |
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| 小题5: | | A．positive | B．enthusiastic | C．particular | D．curious |
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| 小题6: | | A．Undoubtedly | B．Surprisingly | C．Strangely | D．Unfortunately |
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| 小题7: | | A．took away | B．took over | C．cut down | D．cut out |
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| 小题8: | | A．study | B．operation | C．treatment | D．experiment |
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| 小题9: | | A．until | B．because | C．although | D．if |
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| 小题10: | | A．Otherwise | B．Therefore | C．Besides | D．However |
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| 小题11: | | A．scholarship | B．degree | C．prize | D．notice |
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| 小题12: | | A．gradually | B．actually | C．eventually | D．naturally |
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| 小题13: | | A．might | B．should | C．could | D．would |
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| 小题15: | | A．decorating | B．guiding | C．marking | D．fitting |
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| 小题16: | | A．inspired | B．puzzled | C．shocked | D．amused |
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| 小题17: | | A．worry | B．sadness | C．pain | D．fear |
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| 小题18: | | A．appointment | B．promise | C．record | D．habit |
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| 小题19: | | A．blindly | B．angrily | C．gratefully | D．cautiously |
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| 小题20: | | A．strike | B．cover | C．touch | D．wipe |
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When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for 200 so that he could travel to and from work more__ than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it got so old, and it was costing him____much in repairs that he decided that he had better ____it.
He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly____to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so___of them had any desire to buy it. Dave"s friend Sam saw that he was ____ when they met one evening, and said, “What"s____， Dave？”
Dave told him, and Sam answered, “Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may ___more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement！” Thinking that Sam"s____was sensible(合理的)，he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read “For sale: small car，____ very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at 50.”
For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no ____.But then on Saturday evening he had an enquiry(询问)．A man rang up and said he would like to___ him about the car. “All right，” Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o"clock the next morning would be____or not. “Fine，” the man said, “and I"ll____ my wife. We intend to go for a ride in it to ____ it.”
The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door, ____ to wait there for the people who had____ his advertisement. Even Dave had to ____that the car really looked like a wreck(残骸)．Then, soon after he had got the car as clean____ it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a policeman got out. He looked at Dave"s car and then said, “Have you reported this ____ to us yet, sir？”
| 小题1: | | A．directly | B．safely | C．properly | D．easily |
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| 小题3: | | A．keep | B．repair | C．sell | D．throw |
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| 小题4: | | A．anxious | B．lucky | C．ashamed | D．generous |
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| 小题5: | | A．some | B．neither | C．none | D．most |
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| 小题6: | | A．delighted | B．upset | C．calm | D．astonished |
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| 小题9: | | A．message | B．advice | C．request | D．description |
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| 小题10: | | A．uses | B．loses | C．has | D．spends |
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| 小题11: | | A．doubt | B．help | C．trouble | D．answer |
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| 小题13: | | A．exact | B．suitable | C．early | D．late |
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| 小题14: | | A．follow | B．meet | C．bring | D．introduce |
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| 小题15: | | A．recognize | B．gain | C．admire | D．test |
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| 小题16: | | A．happening | B．meaning | C．turning | D．failing |
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| 小题17: | | A．read | B．inserted | C．answered | D．placed |
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| 小题18: | | A．forget | B．show | C．disagree | D．admit |
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| 小题20: | | A．bargain | B．sale | C．accident | D．result |
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I truly feel that my mother led me here, to Morzaine, and to my future as happy wife and business woman. When Mum ____ in October 2007, I was a cook. In December that year while I was working for a wedding, a pearl necklace Mum had left me ____. I was distraught(忧心如焚的). Some days later, I was ____ that a guy who was working with us that day “could probably have made a fortune ___ the necklace he found.” ____， he returned it. Hearing how I"d ____Mum for six months before her death, he said，” Christmas is going to be ___ —why not go out to the Alps for a couple of weeks？”
I come to Morzaine，a small，friendly village in the Alps and ____ fell in love with it. What was ____ to be a stopgap (权宜之计) trip turned into a new life. I kept travelling between London and here and felt ____ than I had in months.In December 2008, I was ____ as a hotel manager and moved here full time.
A month later, I met Paul, who was traveling here. We fell in love. In the beginning, I didn"t want to discuss ____， because the sadness of losing Mum ____ felt great. Paul understood that and never __49__ me but, by summer, we got married. A year later, we used his saving, and the money from the sale of Mom"s house, to build our own ____.
We want to give our guests a ____ feeling, so each room is themed(以……为主题) around memories from our lives. There are also style to remind me of Mom —a tiny chair which ___ be in her bedroom is set in one room.
We are having a wonderful life Mum ____ naturally part of it, ____ there"s no way we would be here if it wasn"t for the ____ she gave me. I know she"s here in spirit, keeping an eye on us.
| 小题1: | | A．died | B．came | C．returned | D．visited |
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| 小题2: | | A．burned | B．disappeared | C．broke | D．dropped |
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| 小题3: | | A．shown | B．comforted | C．persuaded | D．told |
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| 小题4: | | A．hiding | B．stealing | C．selling | D．wearing |
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| 小题5: | | A．Luckily | B．Naturally | C．Surely | D．Hopefully |
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| 小题6: | | A．nursed | B．cured | C．missed | D．guarded |
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| 小题7: | | A．long | B．hard | C．merry | D．free |
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| 小题8: | | A．suddenly | B．finally | | C．nearly | D．immediately |
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| 小题9: | | A．said | B．proved | C．supposed | D．judged |
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| 小题10: | | A．smarter | B．higher | C．firmer | D．lighter |
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| 小题11: | | A．honoured | B．hired | C．regarded | D．trained |
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| 小题12: | | A．travel | B．business | C．children | D．marriage |
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| 小题13: | | A．recently | B．once | C．still | D．firstly |
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| 小题14: | | A．left | B．pushed | C．surprised | D．interrupted |
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| 小题15: | | A．hotel | B．restaurant | C．home | D．shop |
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| 小题16: | | A．homely | B．lively | C．motherly | D．friendly |
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| 小题17: | | A．ought to | B．used to | C．might | D．could |
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| 小题18: | | A．takes | B．keeps | C．looks | D．feels |
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| 小题19: | | A．unless | B．while | C．because | D．though |
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| 小题20: | | A．money | B．chair | C．house | D．necklace |
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Diana Jacobs thought her family had a workable plan to pay for college for her 21yearold twin sons: a combination of savings, income, scholarships, and a modest amount of borrowing. Then her husband lost his job, and the plan fell apart.
“I have two kids in college, and I want to say ‘come home"，but at the same time I want to provide them with a good education，” says Jacobs.
The Jacobs family did work out a solution: They asked and received more aid from the schools, and each son increased his borrowing to the maximum amount through the federal loan (贷款) program. They will each graduate with $20,000 of debt, but at least they will be able to finish school.
With unemployment rising, financial aid administrators expect to hear more families like the Jacobs. More students are applying for aid, and more families expect to need student loans. College administrators are concerned that they will not have enough aid money to go around.
At the same time, tuition(学费)continues to rise. A report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education found that college tuition and fees increased 439% from 1982 to 2007, while average family income rose just 147%. Student borrowing has more than doubled in the last decade.
“If we go on this way for another 25 years, we won"t have an affordable system of higher education，” says Patrick M. Callan, president of the center. “The middle class families have been financing it through debt. They will send kids to college whatever it takes, even if that means a huge amount of debt.”
Financial aid administrators have been having a hard time as many companies decide that student loans are not profitable enough and have stopped making them. The good news, however, is that federal loans account for about three quarters of student borrowing, and the government says that money will flow uninterrupted.
小题1:According to Paragraph 1，why did the plan of Jacobs family fail?| A．The twins wasted too much money. | | B．The father was out of work. | | C．Their saving ran out | | D．The family fell apart. |
小题2:How did the Jacobses manage to solve their problem?| A．They asked their kids to come home. | | B．They borrowed $20,000 from the school. | | C．They encouraged their twin sons to do parttime jobs. | | D．They got help from the school and the federal government. |
小题3:Financial aid administrators believe that ________.| A．more families will face the same problem as the Jacobses | | B．the government will receive more letters of complaint | | C．college tuition fees will double soon | | D．America"s unemployment will fall |
小题4:．What can we learn about the middle class families from the text? | A．They blamed the government for the tuition increase. | | B．Their income remained steady in the last decade. | | C．They will try their best to send kids to college. | | D．Their debts will be paid off within 25 years |
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