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[单项选择]Is College a Worthy Investment
A) Why are we spending so much money on college And why are we so unhappy about it We all seem to agree that a college education is wonderful, and yet strangely we worry when we see families investing so much in this supposedly essential good. Maybe it’s time to ask a question that seems almost sacrilegious (大不敬的): is all this investment in college education really worth it
B)The answer, I fear, is no. For an increasing number of kids, the extra time and money spent pursuing a college diploma will leave them worse off than they were before they set foot on campus.
C)For my entire adult life, a good education has been the most important thing for middle-class households. My parents spent more educating my sister and me than they spent on their house, and they’re not the only ones... and, of course, for an increasing number of families, most of the cost of their house is actually the cost of living in a good school district. Questioning t
[单项选择]I think we need to see an investment ()before we make an expensive mistake.
A. guide
B. entrepreneur
C. consultant
D. assessor
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M: Juliet, you chose not to go to college. Why Was it about money
W: Well. I don’t want to sit here to say I was too poor to go to college. But the fact is that we didn’t have the money, though my mum probably could have made enough somehow. I probably could have worked harder at school and gotten better grades, so, it is really I didn’t get to go to college. I had a wish to go to school every other week. It wasn’t just my path.
M: At the time did you feel that you were missing something
W: My best friend went off to university and I just remember every time I talk to her. It all sounded so fun and so great. Here I was Selling 10 shoes and getting on the bus every day to work in town. We both thought the other’s life was so much more exciting. I was trying hard to make enough to pay for my own flat every two months and that seemed so exciting to her. And she would talk about studying for finals, and going to parties. and I tho
A. She didn’t pass the exam.
B. She wasn’t interested in college.
C. She couldn’t afford college education.
[单项选择]Although we are not sure why we sleep, there is no doubt ______ we need to do so.
A. whether
B. why
C. what
D. that
[单项选择]We haven't the ______ idea why we got such a massive telephone bill last month.
A. dampest B. mistiest C. foggiest D. rainiest
[单项选择]The College Essay: Why Those 500 Words Drive Us Crazy
A) Meg is a lawyer-mom in suburban Washington, D.C., where lawyer-moms are thick on the ground. Her son Doug is one of several hundred thousand high-school seniors who had a painful fall. The deadline for applying to his favorite college was Nov. 1,and by early October he had yet to fill out the application. More to the point, he had yet to settle on a subject for the personal essay accompanying the application. According to college folklore, a well-turned essay has the power to seduce (诱惑) an admissions committee. “He wanted to do one thing at a time,” Meg says, explaining her son’s delay. “But really, my son is a huge procrastinator (拖延者). The essay is the hardest thing to do, so he’s put it off the longest.” Friends and other veterans of the process have warned Meg that the back and forth between editing parent and writing student can be traumatic (痛苦的).
B) Back in the good old days—say, two years ago, when the last