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Spring is here: flowers are in bloom, birdsong fills the air, and the inboxes of employers are clogged with desperate pleas for

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问题     Spring is here: flowers are in bloom, birdsong fills the air, and the inboxes of employers are clogged with desperate pleas for summer internships. College students and graduates are well aware of the impact a plummy placement could have their careers. With ever fewer entry level jobs in many industries, internships have become a critical first step into employment. In America, three-quarters of students on a four-year university course will have toiled as an intern at least once before graduation. Up to half of these gimlet-eyed workers will have given their services free. Some may even have had to pay for the privilege of coming to work.
    Unpaid internships seem to be an example of mutual utility: inexperienced youngsters learn something about a chosen field while employers get to farm out some menial work. The arrangement is consensual, and companies often use internships to test potential recruits. But the increasing popularity of these unpaid placements has caused some controversy lately. Nick Clegg, Britain’s deputy prime minister, recently launched a crusade to ban them, arguing that they favour the wealthy and privileged. Others complain that uncompensated internships flout labour standards, exploit nascent workers and surely depress wages for everyone else. In America, they tend to be illegal at for-profit companies, according to guidelines set out in 1947. But the Department of Labour barely enforces such rules, in part because interns are often too afraid to file complaints.
    Organisations in America save $2 billion a year by not paying interns a minimum wage, writes Ross Perlin in "Intern Nation", a new book about the "highly competitive race to the bottom of the corporate ladder". Perhaps one-third of all internships at for-profit companies are unpaid, and interns now often fill roles once held by full-time employees. "Young people and their parents are subsidising labour for Fortune 500 companies," Mr Perlin comments.
    To avoid legal complications, companies often encourage students to work in exchange for academic credits from their colleges. But such credits can cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Some colleges waive their fees or earn them by offering guidance and oversight. For many institutions, however, they are an easy source of revenue, more beneficial to themselves than their students.
    Calls for new labour laws that reflect the growing prominence of internships have got nowhere. Instead, interns will have to look out for each other, for example by rating their experiences on websites such as InternshipRatings and Internocracy. At any rate, students may be buoyed by a rare bit of good news from the National Association of Colleges and Employers: employers intend to hire 19% more graduates this year than last. This should spare some from the drudgery of working without pay.
The text mainly talks about ______.
选项 A、unpaid internships
B、the internship laws
C、the interns’ troubles
D、the ways to get an internship
答案A
解析 主旨大意题。本文第一段引出大学生实习这一话题，其中谈到实习生愿意无偿实习。接着在第二段中作者引用尼克·克莱格的观点，认为实习对富人和有特权的人有利，还提到无薪实习在营利性公司是违法的，但实习生们不敢投诉。第三段提到罗斯·柏林在其新书《实习生国度》中也谈到无薪实习的问题。第四段接着谈到很多公司为了避免无薪实习带来的法律纠纷，鼓励学生以实习换取学分。最后一段讲到由于解决无薪实习问题的进展缓慢，实习生只能靠相互间的关照。所以，整篇文章都是围绕无薪实习这一话题展开的，由此可知正确答案为A项。
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