题目内容:
Term Bill Each semester,Andrew Tom receives a terln bill 0utlining his expenses:tuition,dora fee,student center fee,recreation fee,resident activity fee,health insurance. If only the rest of his expenses were as easy to quantify.“It’s like you start out the semester with plenty of moRey and then$20 for diBrier out here and $l 00 at the department store there,it’s gone,”said Tom,a Northeastern Universl’third—year student.“And there are so many things you need like toothpaste or 1aundry detergent(洗涤齐)that you don’t think about niltil you get here and need it.”
From the books lining their shelves to the fashionable clothes filling their closets,college students say the expenses of a c0Uege educa土ion go well beyond tuition and a dining hall meal plan.Many say they arrive on campus only to be overwhelmed by unexpected costs from spons fees to the actual price of a slice of pizza.
Balancing a job with schoolwork,especially at colleges known for their heavy workloads 1ike Hal'-yard and MIT,can be tough.So can the pressure students often feel to financially keep pace with their friends.
“When you get dragged along shopping,you’re going to spend money;if you get dragged to a party and everyone wants to take a cab but you’re cheap and want to take a bus Chances are you’ll end up sharing the fee for the cab,”said Tom.“I guess you could say no,but no one wants to be the only one eating in the snack bar while your friends are out to dinner.”
Max Cohen,a biology major at MIT,said he is aceustomed to watching fellow students spend $40 a night to have dinner delivered or $50 during a night out at a bar. During the school’s recent spring break,friends on trips for the week posted away messages that read like a world map--Paris,Rome,Tokyo. “Meanwhile I stay home and work,”said Cohen. “I didn’t realize when I came heye how
much money 1 Would spend or how hard I would have to work to get by.”
It is a lesson some younger students leam quickly.0thers,Surrounded by credit card offers,go into debt,or worse,are forced to leave school.
“A lot of people don’t think twice about how mileh they spend,”said a first--year student at MIT,“and you feelthe pressilre sometimes to go along with them.”The sentence“If only the rest of his expenses were as easy to quantify.”(Lines 2—3,Paragraphl)implies that_______. A.there are many other unexpected expenses
B.it is easy to caleulate how much more to spend
C.the tuition is too high to be caleulated
D.he has to pay only a few other expenses
参考答案:
答案解析: