【正文】 “ If we go on this way for another 25 years, we won’t have an affordable system of higher education” says Patrick M. Callan, president of the center. “ The middle class have been financing it through debt. They will send kids to college whatever it takes, even if that means a huge amount of debt.” Financial aid administrators have been having a hard rime as many panies decide that student loans are not profitable enough and have stopped making them. The good news, however, is that federal loans account for about three quarters of student borrowing, and the government says that money will flow uninterrupted. 55. According to Paragraph 1, why did the plan of the Jacobs family fail? A. The twins wasted too much money. B. The father was out of work. C. Their savings ran out. D. The family fell apart. 56. How did the Jacobses manage to solve their problem? A. They asked their kids to e home. B. They borrowed $20,000 from the school. C. They encouraged their twin sons to do parttime jobs. D. They got help from the schools and the federal government. 57. Financial aid administrators believe that _____. A. more families will face the same problem as the Jacobses. B. the government will receive more letters of plaint. C. college tuition fees will double soon. D. America’s unemployment will fall. 58. What can we learn about the middle class families from the text? A. They blamed the government for the tuition increase. B. Their ine remained steady in the last decade. C. They will try their best to send kids to college. D. Their debts will be paid off within 25 years. 59. According to the last paragraph, the government will ____. A. provide most students with scholarships. B. dismiss some financial aid administrators. C. stop the panies from making student loans. D. go on providing financial support for college students. C I got my first driver’s license（執(zhí)照） in 1953 by taking driver education in my first year at Central High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. Four years later when it was time to renew my license I was a married woman. Henry and I were living in Baltimore, Maryland. Two weeks before my 20th birthday, Henry drove me to the motor vehicle office on a hot July afternoon. When I got to the office and showed to the man behind the counter my North Carolina driver’s license, ready to renew, the man told me that I was under age by Maryland law since I was not yet 21. “ Mr. Henry Smith, your husband, will have to sign for you,” he said. I argued, pointing to a very large belly(肚子 ) of mine, “ I am married and I am having a baby. Why should I have to have someone sign for me to drive?” He answered coldly, “ It’s the law, madam.” Henry encouraged me to calm down, just go ahead and get the license and be done with it. “ No,” I said. I refused to have him sign for me. So I left without a Maryland license. I called the North Carolina Motor Vehicle Office and renewed my license by mail—using my name Susan Brown. And thus it was for the next twelve years. Since Henry was in the army I could drive under my home state license. By the time Henry left the army we were once again living in Maryland, and I had to take the Maryland driver’s exam. Since then I just go in and renew every four years—sign the name Susan Brown, have my new picture taken, and walk out with a license to drive. 60. Susan got her first driver’s license ____. A. before she got married to Henry. B. when she was twenty years old. C. after she finished high school. D. when she just moved to Maryland. 61. Susan failed to renew her license the first time in Maryland because ____ A. she was forbidden to drive by Maryland law. B. she lacked driving experience in Maryland. C. she was to give birth to a baby soon. D. she insisted on signing for herself. 62. We can infer from the text that in the . ____. A. American males should serve in the army B. different states may have different laws. C. people have to renew their licenses in their home states. D. women should adopt their husbands’ family names after marriage. D The word advertising refers to any kinds of public announcement that brings products and services to the attention of people. Throughout history, advertising has been an effective way to promote the trading and selling of goods. In the Middle Ages, merchants employed? town criers” to read public messages aloud to promote their goods. When printing was invented in the fifteenth century, pages of advertisements (ads) could be printed easily and were either hung in public places or put in books. By the end of the seventeenth c