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Tuition has risen for the 2010 -2011 academic year at law schools across the country, though jobs for young lawyers are increasi

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问题     Tuition has risen for the 2010 -2011 academic year at law schools across the country, though jobs for young lawyers are increasingly hard to come by.
    Recent figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that 4,000 jobs in the legal sector were cut in June and July, capping a 12-month stretch in which the field lost about 17,000 positions. Summer associate programs, often a stable track to future employment for law students, also fell victim to a sour economy.
    But more law school admission tests were administered in the most recent testing year than ever before. From June 2009 to February 2010, there were 171,514 requests for the LSAT, a 13.3 percent increase from the previous year, says Wendy Margolis, communications director at the nonprofit Law School Admission Council, which administers the test.
    With demand and costs climbing while job prospects diminish, what’s happening to the value of a legal education? The answer is debatable, says William Henderson, a professor at the Indiana University. He notes that in this economic climate, even a degree from a top law school does not guarantee a job.
    But Ann Levine, a law school admissions consultant, says that dimming job prospects and increasingly high tuition have yet to deter those in her nationwide client pool from seeking elite placements. " People want to generally go to the best law school they can get into, regardless of costs. " She says. One of Levine’s clients Oriana Pietrangelo turned down several full rides in favor of a partial scholarship this fall to the University of Notre Dame Law School, a highly ranked school whose " name goes fairly far".
    Reasons for tuition increases vary by school, though the pattern is that tuition rarely goes down. Instead, relatively small tuition increases are touted as big news. At Vanderbilt University Law School, tuition will increase 2. 7 percent to $ 44,900 before fees, the smallest uptick in 44 years, according to the school. Public law schools are feeling the heat of tight state budgets. Funding for higher education has been slashed in at least 43 financially strapped states, according to a recent report. Higher education funding in Texas, for example, was reduced by $ 73 million, and public universities in Indiana saw a $ 150 million decrease this year. The budget pressures are pushing tuition upward.
    Still, law school officials voice continued support for ambitious students choosing a legal education, especially when the curricula embrace the changing tides of the professional market. " I think that law school remains a great investment because of the kinds of analytical skills law school teaches," says Paul Schiff Berman, dean of Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, "whether you end up practicing at a law firm, or going into business, or going into government. "  
The figures in the second paragraph imply that______.
选项 A、the economy has continuously been shrinking
B、the development of law schools has been speeding up
C、there is a high unemployment rate in legal sector
D、there is a contradiction between enrollment and employment
答案D
解析 推断题。根据作者的论述思路推断作者引用数据的目的。本段数据以连词But(第二段第四行)为分界，之前数据说明法学界就业形势不好，而之后的数据则表明报考法学院的学生人数仍在持续攀升。结合首段引出的论题，以及第三段人们对法学教育是否物有所值的质疑，可以分析得出引用这些数据的目的是显示法学院的招生与就业情况存在着矛盾。故[D]为答案。四个选项中，[A]项脱离了原文中心思想，经济衰退虽是论题所处的背景，但并不是论述的核心，可首先排除。[B]项臆解原文文意，法学院报考人数的增加并不能说明法学院的发展在加速。[C]项过度推断，法律行业就业岗位减少并不一定说明失业率很高，该项混淆了动态变化与静态状况。
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