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Aspiring college students will be able to apply for financial aid three months earlier than now and submit a previous year’s tax

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问题     Aspiring college students will be able to apply for financial aid three months earlier than now and submit a previous year’s tax return, changes aimed at helping more people pay for school, the White House said Sunday.
    Under the current system, students planning to start school in the fall of 2017 must wait until January of that year to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The new system will let them complete the form as early as October 2016, the month that marks the traditional start to the college application season.
    The government uses that form to determine eligibility for Pell Grants and federally backed student loans. The White House said requiring applicants to wait until January slows down the aid process and makes it harder for prospective students to determine whether they can afford to go to college.
    Some 2 million college students are eligible for federal Pell Grants but miss out because they never apply, said James Kvaal, the deputy director of the White House’s Domestic Policy Council. "If we are not even reaching students who are currently enrolled in college, we wonder how many more students would be in college if they knew this aid was available, " Kvaal said in an interview.
    President Barack Obama planned to announce the revisions during a meeting Monday with high school students in Des Moines, Iowa. Trying to make college more affordable, Obama has capped some student loan payments and signed legislation lowering certain interest rates.
    To assess a student’s financial background, the federal aid system crunches the numbers from a family’s tax returns, which can be electronically downloaded from the IBS for students who apply online. In advancing the start date to October, the Obama administration will allow students to use earlier tax information so they do not have to wait until the following year’s returns are filed. For example, a student applying for aid for the 2017-2018 academic year currently must use their 2016 tax return.  The new system will let them use their 2015 return.
    Using older tax information could cause significant changes for some students, such as those who take a "gap year" to work after high school but whose ability to pay for college would still be based on their senior year. Kvaal said the administration will ask colleges to use their freedom with Pell Grants to take students’ unique circumstances into account when necessary.
    "We anticipate there may be a little more work for colleges to do to adjust financial aid packages," Kvaal said. "But overall, we believe that the earlier tax data is a sound basis for awarding federal student aid. "
According to James Kvaal, the reason why a lot of students haven’t got federal Pell Grants is_________.
选项 A、they don’t meet the application requirements
B、they haven’t submitted the applications
C、they have missed the application deadline
D、there is a limited quota for that aid
答案B
解析 细节题。根据题干关键词James Kvaal，federal Pell Grants定位于第四段。该段第一句引用白宫国内政策委员会副主任詹姆斯.科瓦尔的话指出，大约两百万名大学生(some 2 million college students)有资格获得联邦佩尔助学金(eligible for federal Pell Grants)却坐失了良机，因为他们从未申请过(because they never apply)，B项正是对此原因的“同义替换”，故为答案。由第四段第一句中的eligible for federal Pell Grants可知，这些学生“有资格”申请佩尔助学金，A项属于“正反混淆”；第四段第一句中的miss out指的是“坐失了助学金”，并不是指“错过了申请的最后期限”，C项属于“偷换概念”；文中说的是很多本来有资格获得助学金的学生却没有申请，“助学金配额有限”显然与此矛盾，D项属于“正反混淆”。
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