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A young woman goes to university and earns a degree in religious and women’s studies. In the process she piles up some $ 100,000

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问题     A young woman goes to university and earns a degree in religious and women’s studies. In the process she piles up some $ 100,000 in student-loan debt. Upon graduation, she cannot find a job in her field and struggles to pay her bills. An example of unwise decision-making perhaps, but is it also proof of a long-debated bubble in American higher education?
    It is for Glenn Reynolds, the productive blogger, law professor and author of a new book, "The New School". With tuition costs rising much faster than inflation, Americans are taking on record amounts of debt over $1 trillion by 2013—to fund their education. Many are finding that their job prospects do not justify the investment. Whereas a university degree once meant automatic entry into the middle class, it now comes with no such guarantee.
    But is higher education as bad a deal as Mr. Reynolds makes it out to be? "Some people are graduating with debts of $100,000 or more," he says, "sometimes much more." Most are not, though. The average graduate holds student-loan debt of $29,400, a number not found in this book. College Board, a non-profit organisation, finds that the median earnings of university graduates emerging from four-year courses and without a further degree, such as a master’s, are 65% higher over their lifetimes than those of high-school graduates.
    Short on numbers, the book contributes little to the bubble debate. But Mr. Reynolds puts forward criticism of American universities that will ring true to anyone who has attended one recently. Universities can help people make money in three ways: by teaching them skills, giving them credentials that employers want and providing access to a valuable social network. Some studies have shown that university students fail to learn much of anything.
    Acquiring skills, of course, can be quite expensive. Prices should not continue going up forever, so new thinking is needed. The web provides one way forward, and although Mr. Reynolds is doubtful about the ability of colleges to reinvent themselves, some are catching on. Take the Georgia Institute of Technology, which has joined up with Udacity, an online educator, to offer a master’s degree in computer science for $ 7,000. "It’s a real, accredited degree," says Mr. Reynolds, "just like the ones that cost six times as much if earned on campus."
The example of a young woman in the opening paragraph is to show ______.
选项 A、the failure of higher education
B、the condition of education debt
C、an example of unwise decision-making
D、the unemployment situation in the U. S.
答案B
解析 第一段的最后一句体现出前面提到a young woman的目的，其中的“an example of unwise decision—making”容易让人误选C作为答案，但要注意的是文章中提到的but一词之后才是重点，故重点是下文的higher education，而由此也容易让人误选A作为答案。A和B两项都提到了关键词education，选项A强调的是“高等教育的失败”，选项B强调“教育负债状况"，根据上文的student-loan debt以及第二段出现的debt我们可以知道，本文讨论的话题是education debt，而不是failure of higher education，从而我们排除了选项A，答案为选项B。
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