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Part V Cloze (15 minutes)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Like many of the protesters at Occupy Wall Street in New York. Amanda Vodola is young, underemployed and loaded with student debt. She spends her days running around, helping --67-- the movement, and her evenings waiting tables at a restaurant in Brooklyn. Last spring, she graduated from Fordham University --68-- a degree in English. "I grew up with this narrative that to get a good job I need to go to school," she says. But the job she has "is not enough to pay the bills." And the bills she's --69-- most about are the ones tied to that narrative: the $30000 she --70--
In November, when their six-month grace period run --71-- , Vodola and millions of other students who graduated in May have to start --72-- their loans. Repayment requirements for private loans kick in regardless of whether --73-- have found jobs. Since employment rates for recent college graduates have --74-- in the past two years, as have starting salaries, the --75-- of a sharp rise in student-loan delinquencies（到期未付）has led some economists to --76-- that this could be the next financial crisis, rippling（波及）into the wider economy. Total US student-loan debt, which exceeded credit-card debt --77-- the first time last year, is on track to --78-- $1000 billion this year. That's a nearly 8% --79-- over last year.
But neither these -80-- nor the voices of students, --81-- by debt, at protests in cities and on campuses --82-- the nation are likely to keep the families of high school seniors --83-- seeing a brand-name education as a --84-- to a better life. They've long been told that higher education is an --85-- in the future-even as the costs of college has --86-- 538% over the
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
67. A) organize B) establish C) integrate D) assemble
68. A) under B) on C) over D) with
69. A) puzzled B) interrupted C) worried D) distracted
70. A) collects B) owes C) costs D) accounts
71. A) down B) up C) off D) out
72. A) raising B) repaying C) rearranging D) rating
73. A) lenders B) owners C) borrowers D) holders
74. A) dropped B) reversed C) collapsed D) slimmed
75. A) possibility B) stability C) publicity D) security
76. A) command B) predict C) appreciate D) instruct
77. A) in B) to C) of D) for
78. A) blow B) knock C) hit D) pound
79. A) advance B) increase C) transfer D) progress
80. A) statistics B) graphs C) diagrams D) abstracts
81. A) rejected B) cleared C) revealed D) burdened
82. A) among B) amid C) throughout D) beyond
83. A) towards B) from C) against D) into
84. A) sign B) label C) brick D) ticket
85. A) investment B) instrument C) indication D) inspiration
86. A) intensified B) flown C) soared D) broken
