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A new book by a former lawyer at Kirkland & Ellis, one of the nation’s largest law firms, has delivered a thrill to the already

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问题     A new book by a former lawyer at Kirkland & Ellis, one of the nation’s largest law firms, has delivered a thrill to the already upset legal profession. In The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis, Steven J. Harper argues that legal jobs are disappearing not because of short-term economic fluctuations but because of powerful long-term trends. The word bubble is an overstatement, but Harper deserves credit for sounding the alarm.
    The decline in the market for lawyers is being driven by an array of forces. For some time now, corporate clients have been less willing to sign off on bulky legal bills. They have increasingly been unwilling to pay the top hourly rates of $1,000 that some partners charge. And as a result of globalization, an increasing share of American legal work is being shipped overseas. Lawyers in lower-wage markets are willing to do the work for a fraction of what American law firms would charge. Taking away even more of this work: newly sophisticated legal software that can do "document review" and other tasks for which lawyers were once needed.
    The legal market is without question soft these days. Last June, the Association for Legal Career Professionals released a grim report stating that only 65.4％ of law-school graduates had found jobs for which it was necessary to pass a state bar exam. And the Internet is full of first-hand accounts of law-school graduates who say that their law degree has not helped them get a law job—and, worse still, those who report that their degree has actually hurt their job prospects, since some employers now tell them they are overqualified for nonlegal positions.
    Harper argues that the profession’s leaders are a big part of the problem. He contends that big-firm managers are too focused on maximizing profits for the biggest partners—at the expense of junior lawyers and the long-term interest of the firm. And he faults law-school deans for putting the interests and salaries of law professors ahead of the interests of their underemployed, debt-ridden students.
    Controversial as it is, Harper’s big-picture argument is undoubtedly correct, and it is a real cause for concern. Bar associations and legal academics have begun talking about how the profession should adapt—discussions that should have begun much earlier. The biggest problem with The Lawyer Bubble is not the warning it is sounding but its title; unlike other speculative bubbles in the past, lawyers will always be a necessity not a passing fashion. But then, The Very, Very Challenging Job Market for Lawyers doesn’t have the same ring to it.
The book The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis ________.
选项 A、has upset legal profession
B、is an exaggeration of the situation
C、has caused deeper concern
D、is a big blow to legal profession
答案C
解析 根据书名可定位到第一段。该段第一句就指出该书的出版给原本已经寒风凛凛的法律行业带来寒意has delivered a thrill to the already upset legal profession)。本句中的thrill指的是刺激性的“颤动”，说明这本书已经对法律界产生了一个刺激，引起了人们的注意。最后一段第一句在总结时，作者又说 is a real cause for concern，进一步可以证明本书确实导致了人们的担忧(caused concern)，说明C项正确。A项“搅乱法律行业”是对原文中的already upset legal profession的错误理解，A项中的up set用作动词，意为“搅乱，打乱，使心烦意乱”，而原文中的upset是用作形容词，和already一起修饰legal profession，表示“已经寒风凛凛的法律行业”，由already“已经”可知，法律行业如今的“upset”状态并非本书所致，A项与文意不符，可排除；B项“对这一情况的夸张表达”是对第一段末句中the word bubble is an overstatement的片面理解，作者说的是书名中的bubble一词用的有些夸大，而不是说整本书是夸张的，整本书还是值得关注的(deserves credit)；D项“对法律行业的巨大打击”是对第一段首句中thrill一词的错误理解，thrill指的是刺激，而不是打击。
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