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C) one may become less talkative on the phone
D) it usually has a limitation of 160 characters
14. Which of the following version is NOT true according to the article?
A) Younger people are more used to instant messaging on a computer than older folks.
B) Statistics has shown that text message business has proliferated over the past three years.
C) U.S’s S.M.S business in mid-2004 is four times larger than in mid-2002.
D) One of the punishment parents give to carelessly use of texting is kids may lose cell phone privileges.
15. The word “rage” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to .
A) anger B) fashion C) trend D) phenomenon
Passage Two
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.
More than 100 colleges in Beijing enrolled fewer than 40,000 students in total this year, 10,000 less than last year, according to the Beijing Star Daily. In 2002, they attracted 80,000 students in total.
The head of a private college in the capital told the newspaper that the cost of educating a student at one of these establishments was about 30,000 yuan a year. He said a college needed to enrol 2,000 students a year to make ends meet. But in Beijing, they had enrolled fewer than 400 on average this year.
“Some private colleges will go bankrupt in the coming years if the number of enrolments continues to drop,” the head was quoted as saying.
Wei Honglin , head of the Beijing Education Consulting and Complaint Centre, said private colleges had suffered huge losses during the SARs outbreak last year.
Education experts said private colleges were becoming less attractive to students because of rising unemployment among graduates. They said high school graduates, especially those from less-developed areas, were reluctant to pay money and spend years on private college education when there was no guarantee of a job.
For many private college students, graduation is often a guarantee of unemployment because they are less popular with employers than graduates from well-known public colleges and universities.
An expansion of public colleges and universities since 1999 has also made it difficult for private colleges to survive. There are more than 1,300 privately run colleges across the country and nearly all are struggling to attract enough interest to keep running. To attract more students, more than 1 billion yuan was spent on publicising private colleges last year. ―For every student enrolled, the private colleges on average spent 3,000 yuan on publicity,‖ Mr Wei said.
16. What may be one of the results if a private college fails to enroll 2,000 students a year?
A) Students will leave to find another one.
B) The college will have to pay a certain penalty to the government.
C) The college will have to shut down because of bankrupt.
D) President of the college will be put in jail.
17. Why are students from less-developed areas reluctant to go to private colleges?
A) Fees of private colleges are too high for students from those areas.
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