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IV. Reading Comprehension: Choose the best answer to each question according towhat is stated or implied in the passage. Passage 1College presidents and the American public have very different ideas about who shouldpay for college and whether higher education is a good deal, a new Pew Research Centerstudy finds. About two-thirds of the presidents of public and private four-year and two-yearcolleges say that students should pay for their own education. Meanwhile, less than half ofmembers of the general public agrees with that assessment, with a majority saying either thefederal or state government, private donors, or a combination of those should pick up thelargest share of a student’s college tab. Perhaps this reluctance to pay is due in part to a widespread belief that colleges areripping people off. Nearly 60 percent of Americans say the U.S. higher education system isnot providing students with a good value. Three-quarters of college presidents, on the otherhand, say college is a good or excellent value. It’s true that the sticker price of college has nearly tripled since 1980. Advocates ofhigher education, like Terry Hartle, chief lobbyist at the American Council on Education,argue that grants and financial aid have filled that gap－but economists have found that theaverage family is paying a higher percentage of its income to finance college than it did 30years ago. Families in the lowest 20th percentile of income have found college morefinancially out of reach over the same period, suggesting that financial aid has not kept pacewith ballooning costs.Meanwhile, six in 10 college presidents say students are less prepared for college andstudy less than their counterparts had 10 years ago. Their pessimism is borne out byresearch. A comprehensive study finds college students only study 12 hours a week onaverage. And a 2008 study found that one-third of college students are enrolled in priceyremedial courses because they lack proficiency in basic math or reading. Hartle says skepticism over the value of a college education is not new: A 1976Newsweek cover asked “Who Needs College?” and Harvard economist Richard Freemanargued in “The Overeducated American” the same year that as more Americans racked updegrees their value would go down. (The opposite has proven true so far.) College graduates enjoy a strong economic advantage over lesser educated Americanson average. The Pew researchers estimate that the average college graduate makes $650,000more over his or her lifetime than a high school graduate. And even if they don’t thinkcollege was the best deal, more than 85 percent of college grads surveyed say their educationwas a good investment for them personally.
31. In the first paragraph, the word “tab” is closest in meaning to______  .
(A) deal
(B) cost
(C) life
(D) education
(E) assessment

參考答案

答案：B
難度：簡單0.8
統計：A(0),B(8),C(0),D(1),E(1)

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