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回答题:Term Bill Each semester,Andrew Tom receives a terill bill 0utling his expenses:tuition,dorm fee.student tenter fee,recreation fee,resident activity fee,health insurance. If only the rest of his expenses were as easy too quantifv.
“It’s like you stan out the semester with plenty of nloney and then $ 20 for dinner out here and $1 00 at the department store there,it’s gone,”said Tom,a Northeastern Universitv third—year student“And there are so many thillgs you need ike toothpaste or laundry detergent(洗涤剂)that you don’t think ahout until you get here and need it”.
From the books lining their shelyes to the fashl’onahIe clothes fillng their closets,college students say the expenses of a college education go well beyond tuition and a dining hall meal plan. Many say they arriVe on campus only to be overwhelmed hy kinexpected costs from sports fees to the actual price of a slice of pizza.
Balancing a job with sch001work,especially at colleges known fobr their heavy workloads like Harvard and MIT,Call 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,“I guess you could say no,but no one wants to be the only one eating in the snack bar while your friend are out to dinner.” Max Cohen,a biology major at MIT,said he is aecustomed 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 trinsfor the week posted away messages that read like a World map--Paris,Rome,Tokyo. “Meanwhile I stay honle and WOEk,"said Cohen. “l didn’t realize when I came here how much money l wonld spend or how hard 1 wonld have to work to get by. "
It is a lesson some younger students Iearn quickly. others,surrounded by eredit card offers,go into debt,or worse,are forced to leave school.
“A lot of people don’t think twice about how runeh they spend,”said a first—year student at MIT,“and you feel the pressure sometirues to go along with them.”
The sentence“If only the rest of his expenses were as easy to quantify. (Lines 2—3,Paragmph1)implies that A.there are many other unexpected expenses
B.it is easy to ealculate hOW mueh more to spend
C.the tuition is too high to be calculated
D.he has to pay only a few other expenses
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