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New graduates in America are used to facing an uncertain future while saddled with heavy debts. Now Sallie Mae, the firm that provides many of them with the financial wherewithal to complete their education, will understand how they feel. On Monday April 16th it was announced that two private-equity firms along with two banks, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, had agreed to pay $25 billion for America’s leading student-loan provider.
In the past decade the market for student loans has doubled to around $85 billion a year. Student numbers have swelled while incomes have failed to keep pace with the soaring cost of college education. Sallie Mae has over a quarter of the entire business in America. And though margins are wafer-thin the firm made a profit of $1.2 billion last year.
This profitability has attracted the interest of both Democratic and Republican lawmakers, seeking ways to save money while making education more affordable. Particularly vulnerable
A. express the current situation of student-loan.
B. describe the banking industry of the U.S.
C. show problems in politics.
D. talk about the environment of education in the U.S..

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New graduates in America are used to facing an uncertain future while saddled with heavy debts. Now Sallie Mae, the firm that provides many of them with the financial wherewithal to complete their education, will understand how they feel. On Monday April 16th it was announced that two private-equity firms along with two banks, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, had agreed to pay $25 billion for America’s leading student-loan provider.
In the past decade the market for student loans has doubled to around $85 billion a year. Student numbers have swelled while incomes have failed to keep pace with the soaring cost of college education. Sallie Mae has over a quarter of the entire business in America. And though margins are wafer-thin the firm made a profit of $1.2 billion last year.
This profitability has attracted the interest of both Democratic and Republican lawmakers, seeking ways to save money while making education more affordable. Particularly vulnerable
A. the company has used illegal methods to raise money.
B. the cost of college education has increased faster than the average income.
C. the government has issued policies to increase the profit in the industry.
D. students are safe borrowers who can repay the loan immediately.

[单项选择]Today men are facing new expectations and new choices about their commitments to society, family, and work. No longer what goals they should pursue, much less how they should pursue them, many men have found themselves in a no-man’s land, searching for new meanings and definitions of maturity. In interviews I conducted with 138 men from diverse social and economic background. 36 percent defined their family and work commitments in terms of primary breadwinning, and 30 percent chose to eschew parenthood or to avoid involvement with children they had brought into the world.
However, about 33 percent had moved toward more rather than less family involvement over the course of their lives. These men develop an outlook on parenthood that included caretaking as well as economic support. They represent a growing group of fathers, most of whom arc married to work-committed women and have an egalitarian approach toward marriage and family commitments. Such men ,whom I call "involved fath
A. men are at loss to what roles they should play
B. men realize that they’ve got into a place that no one had been before
C. men want to change the meanings and definitions of adulthood
D. men meet with great pressure from the society

[单项选择]New disposal fees for toxic chemicals used in producing plastic house plants have increased production costs by $ 0.28 per plant for all manufacturers in the industry. The most likely effects on the industry supply curve and total producers’ surplus in the market for plastic house plants are: Industry supply Producers’ surplus（） ①A. shifts left increases ②B. shifts left decreases ③C. shifts right decreases
A. ①
B. ②
C. ③