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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. "
Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of the text?
选项 A、Students can apply earlier for federal college aid.
B、More students have eligibility for federal college aid.
C、The White House proposes a series of financial reforms.
D、A student’s financial situation will be assessed by earlier tax data.
答案A
解析 主旨题。本题考查主旨，故应通篇考虑，重点留意文章开头和各段主题句。文章开头就指出，学生可以提早申请联邦财政资助，接着后面具体阐述了现有的申请时间规定存在的弊端以及申请时间提前会给学生带来的影响，可见最能够概括本文内容的是A项。文章开头指出，政府将申请财政资助的时间提前，是为了让更多的学生能够上得起大学，但文章主要是关于“申请时间提前”，而不是关于“申请资格”，B项属于“偷换概念”；本文的确是关于白宫在联邦助学金制度方面的改革，但C项所说的“一系列财政改革”属于“范围过大”；本文在讲述学生可以提早申请联邦财政资助的同时，也提到学生可以提供更早期的纳税信息来作为对其财政状况的评估依据，但这并不是本文的重点内容，D项属于“以偏概全”。
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