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2017-03-11

Questions are based on the following passage.
What a waste of money! In return for an average of ~44,000 of debt, students get an average of only 14 hours of lecture and tutorial time a week in Britain. Annual fees have risen from £1,000 to £9,000 in the last decade, but contact time at university has barely risen at all. And graduating doesn't even provide any guarantee of a decent job : six in ten graduates today are in non-graduate jobs.
No wonder it has become fashionable to denounce many universities as little more than elaborate con-tricks (骗术). There's a lot for students to complain about: the repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.
Yet it still pays to go to university. If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little--if any--of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning £21,000 a year.
Almost half of graduates--those who go on to earn less--will have a portion of their debt written off.
It's not just the lectures and tutorials that are important. Education is the sum of what students teach each other in between lectures and seminars. Students do not merely benefit while at university; studies show- they go on to be healthier and happier than non-graduates, and also far more likely to vote.
Whatever your talents, it is extraordinarily difficult to get a leading job in most fields without having been to university. Recruiters circle elite universities like vultures (兀鹰). Many top firms will not even look at applications from those who lack a 2.1, i. e., an upper-second class degree, from an elite university. Students at university also meet those likely to be in leading jobs in the future, forming contacts for life. This might not be right, but school-leavers who fail to acknowledge as much risk making the wrong decision about going to university.
Perhaps the reason why so many universities offer their students so little is they know studying at a top university remains a brilliant investment even if you don't learn anything. Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university--and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon. School-leavers may moan, but they have little choice but to embrace university and the student debt that comes with it.
 What is the author's opinion of going to university?

A.It is worthwhile after all.
B.It is simply a waste of time.
C.It is hard to say whether it is good or bad.
D.It is too expensive for most young people.

参考答案

A

答案解析

全文翻译
简直就是浪费钱!英国学生的平均债务为44000英镑,其回报就是平均每周14个小时的授课和辅导。在过去的十年中,每年的学费已从1000英镑上涨到9000英镑,但大学里的师生接触时间几乎没有增长。(52)大学毕业甚至无法为获得一份体面的工作提供任何保证:如今有十分之六的毕业生从事的都是不需要大学文凭的工作。
难怪人们纷纷指责许多大学不过是精心的骗术。学生们有很多事要抱怨:还贷的起点金额将被冻结五年,意味着低收入的毕业生必须开始还贷;生活补助金已被贷款取代,意味着贫困家庭的学生面临的债务高于那些家里较为富裕的学生。
(51)然而上大学仍是值得的。如果上大学不起作用,学生们就只会偿还少量学费,或者不还。因为只有当你年收入21000英镑时才需要开始还贷。几乎半数毕业生——那些以后赚钱很少的毕业生——会有部分债务被勾销。(53)不仅仅是授课和辅导很重要。教育是学生们在讲座和研讨班之间互相学习的知识总和。学生们不仅在大学期间受益;研究表明他们将会变得比非大学毕业生更健康、更快乐,而且更有可能去参加投票。
不管你的天分如何,在大多数行业里,没有读过大学却想要找到最好的工作是极其困难的。招聘者像兀鹰一样盘旋在精英大学里。许多顶尖公司甚至不会去考虑那些毕业于精英大学却没有获得2.1,即二级甲等学位的求职者。(54)学生在大学里还会遇见那些以后会从事一流工作的人,为生活建立有用的社会关系。这可能并不正确,但未能认识到这一点的中学毕业生们就会对上大学一事冒险做出错误的决定。
或许这么多大学教给其学生的东西如此之少的原因就是,它们知道即使你什么都没学到,在一流大学里学习也是一项出色的投资。(55)只有当雇主们不再关注人们就读哪所大学时,在大学学习的吸引力才会变小——没有任何迹象表明这在近期内会很快发生。中学毕业生们可能会有所抱怨,但他们别无选择,只有接受大学以及随之而来的学生债务。
详解详析
由题干中的the author’s opinion和going to university定位到文章第三段第一句:Yet it still pays to go to university.
观点态度题。定位句指出“然而上大学仍是值得的”,接下来该段分别从还贷、教育和受益三个方面解释为什么上大学是值得的。由此可见,作者对上大学还是持一种赞成的态度,认为这么做是值得的,故答案为A.。
B.“上大学简直是在浪费时间”,首段第一句提到上大学简直就是浪费钱,但没有说是在浪费时间,而且这是为了引出英国大学生面临的问题,并不是作者自己的观点,因此,该选项是对原文的曲解,故排除;C.“很难说上大学是好还是坏”,原文中作者认为上大学还是有好处的,而不是很难界定,故C.与作者的观点不符,可以排除;D.“对于大多数年轻人而言上大学太贵了”,首段第三句的确提到在过去的十年中,每年的学费已从1000英镑上涨到9000英镑,但并未表明作者认为大学学费对于大多数年轻人而言太贵了,故D.在原文并未提及,可以排除。

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