2008年度全国职称外语等级考试试卷及答案（理工类B级）_4

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Rising Tuition inthe US

Every spring, US universityadministrators gather to discuss the next academic year's budget. They considerfaculty salaries, utility costs for dormitories, new building needs and repairsto old ones. They run the numbers and conclude-itseems, inevitably -that, yet again, the cost oftuition must go up.

According to the US's College Board, the price of attending afour-year private university in the US rose 81 percent between 2005 and2006, the numbers continued to rise in 1993 and 2004. ________(46)

According to university officials,college cost increases are simply the result of balancing university checkbooks."Tuition increases at Cedarville University are determinedby our revenue needs for each year," said the university's president, Dr BillBrown. "Student tuition pays for 78 percent of the university's operating costs."Brown's school is a private university that enrolls about 3, 1 00 undergradsand is consistently recognized by annual college ranking guides like US Newsand World Report's and The Princeton Review's. __________(47)

Tuition at private universities isset by administration officials and then sent for approval to the school'sboard of trustees （监管）all of a state's publicinstitutions. John Durham, assistant secretary（董事）________(48) This board oversees to the board of trustees at East Carolina University(ECU),explains that state law says that public institutions must make their servicesavailable whenever possible to the people of the state for free. Durham said that North Carolina residents only pay 22 percent of the cost oftheir education. _____(49)State residents attending ECU pay about us$10, 000for tuition room and board before financial aid.

Amid the news about continuedincreases in college costs, however, there is some good news. Tuition increaseshave been accompanied by roughly equal increases in financial aid at almostevery university. To receive financial aid, US students complete a formalapplication with the federal government. The federal government then decides whittleran applicant is eligible（有资格的）for grants or loans.________(50)

A. The application isthen sent to the student's university, where the school itself will decidewhether free money will be given to the student and how much

B. At publicuniversities, however, tuition increases must also be approved by a stateeducation committee, sometimes called the board of governors

C. Theschool currently charges US$23,410 a year for tuition.

D. ManyAmerican people are simply unable to pay the growing cost of food

E. That'smore than double the rate of inflation.

F. Thestate government covers the rest

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