2014年考研英语(一)真题及参考答案(9)

在第二句，因此选择A选项。另我们会发现BCD三个选项趋于强烈和负面，所以，我们选择A选项。

25．To which of the following would the author most probably agree?

[A]The British welfare system indulges jobseekers’ laziness．

[B]Osborne’s reforms will reduce the risk of unemployment．

[C]The jobseekers’ allowance has met their actual needs．

[D]Unemployment benefits should not be made conditional．

答案：B 细节题。本题题根据选项定位。A选项根据大写字母The British welfare system定位到最后一段的第三句，原文是“no longer”，选项与原文反向干扰。B选项根据Osborne’s reforms

定位到第一段第二句，可以得出该项目可减少失业危险，所以B为正确答案。C选项根据题干“the jobseekers’ allowance”定位到最后一段倒数第二句，该句提到“no fundamental right”，恰与C选项表意相反，所以C是反向干扰。D选项根据题干“conditional”定位到最后一段最后一句，其中只提到“conditional on actively seeking a job…”，并没有要说以后应该怎样，所以属于无中生有。

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All around the world， lawyers generate more hostility than the members of any other profession－－－with the possible exception of journalism． But there are few places where clients have more grounds for complaint than America．

During the decade before the economic crisis， spending on legal services in America grew twice as fast as inflation． The best lawyers made skyscrapers－full of money， tempting ever more students to pile into law schools． But most law graduates never get a big－firm job． Many of them instead become the kind of nuisance－lawsuit filer that makes the tort system a costly nightmare．

There are many reasons for this． One is the excessive costs of a legal education． There is just one path for a lawyer in most American states： a four－year undergraduate degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the bar exam． This leaves today’s average law－school graduate with $100，000 of debt on top of undergraduate debts． Law－school debt means that they have to work fearsomely hard．

Reforming the system would help both lawyers and their customers． Sensible ideas have been around for a long time， but the state－level bodies that govern the profession have been too conservative to implement them． One idea is to allow people to study law as an undergraduate