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

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问题    Spring is here: flowers are in bloom, birdsong fills the air, and the inboxes of employers are filled with desperate pleas for summer internships. College students and graduates are well aware of the impact a desirable placement could have on 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 labored as an intern at least once before graduation. Up to half of these sharp-sighted 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 benefits: inexperienced youngsters learn something about a chosen field while employers get to farm out some unskilled 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 campaign to ban them, arguing that they favor the wealthy and privileged. Others complain that uncompensated internships violate labor standards, exploit new employees 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 Labor barely enforces such rules, in part because interns are often too afraid to file complaints.
   Organizations 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.
   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 exempt their fees or earn them by offering guidance and supervision. For many institutions, however, they are an easy source of revenue, more beneficial to themselves than their students.
   Calls for new labor 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 the Internet. At any rate, students may be encouraged 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 hard boring work without pay.
What measure do the companies take to avoid legal troubles?
选项 A、They exchange internships for academic credits.
B、They begin to pay the interns salaries.
C、They ask the colleges for guidance and supervision.
D、They only hire full-time employees.
答案A
解析 此题为细节分析题。题干中的legal troubles相当于第四段第一句中出现的legal complications。该句话的意思是：为了避免法律纠纷，公司经常鼓励学生通过工作来换取他们大学的学分，可见A选项为正确答案。
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