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 (貸款) 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(學(xué)費(fèi))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.
【小題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.
【小題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.
【小題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
【小題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


【小題1】B
【小題2】D
【小題3】A
【小題4】C

解析【小題1】答案　B　[推理判斷題。第一段提到Diana Jacobs的家庭本來有一個(gè)可行的計(jì)劃可以支付兩個(gè)雙胞胎兒子的大學(xué)費(fèi)用，可由于丈夫的失業(yè)計(jì)劃瓦解了。]
【小題2】答案　D　[推理判斷題。第三段指出解決方案(solution)是向?qū)W校索求更多的援助，每個(gè)兒子增加貸款到最大額度。如原文“They asked and received more aid from the schools, and each son increased his borrowing to the maximum amount through the federal loan (貸款) program.”，也即是選項(xiàng)D。]
【小題3】答案　A　[細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第四段“expect to hear more families like the Jacobs”可以得知財(cái)政援助的管理員們預(yù)期會(huì)看到更多像Jacobs一家的情況，同義轉(zhuǎn)換即選項(xiàng)A。而B、D原文沒有提到，C 從第五段“Student borrowing has more than doubled in the last decade”，可知在過去10年里已經(jīng)長了一倍還多，因此是錯(cuò)的。]
【小題4】答案　C　[推理判斷題。從第六段最后一句話“They will send kids to college whatever it takes, even if that means a huge amount of debt.”可知，無論需要什么他們都會(huì)送孩子去上大學(xué)，即使那意味著大筆的債務(wù)。]

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