ivate 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.

b) it is more difficult for them to enroll private colleges.

c) private colleges have a not so good repute.

d) after graduation from private colleges, the chance of getting a job is slimmer than from public colleges and universities.

18. what has been done in private colleges in order to survive?

a) private colleges has gradually decrease their tuition in order to attract students from less-developed areas.

b) private colleges has tried to use advertisements to promote themselves.

c) an expansion of private colleges has been undertaking.

d) private colleges now employ more experienced teachers.

19. based on the passage, what can be one of the reasons to cause losses to private colleges last year?

a) the outbreak of sars.

b) the expansion of public colleges and universities.

c) the careless operation of the colleges.

d) the quality of the colleges’ faculty.

20. which is the following statement is false on the grounds of the facts in the text?

a) nearly all the private colleges are struggling to survive throughout the country.

b) for every student enrolled, 3,000 yuan a year is spent on all kinds of promotion on average.

c) private colleges usually guarantee of a much better job than universities.

d) private colleges in beijing enrolled about 50,000 students last year.

passage three

questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.

in elizabethan england, there were laws to prevent members of the rabble from dressing above their station. this was never really effective, but to understand how truly futile it is these days for the upper classes to try keeping the masses in their sartorial place, you need to know what a chav is. “chav” — the champion buzzword of 2004 in britain, according to one language maven there — refers to something between a subculture and a social class. the unofficial definition is a clueless suburbanite with appalling taste and a tendency toward track suits and loud jewelry.

in any case, there’s one aspect of chavness that almost every description mentions right away: chavs love burberry. the recognizable plaid pattern of burberry, the venerable english luxury brand, has long since come to serve as a status signifier. presumably it is status that chavs are looking for when they snap up anything and everything emblazoned with the plaid. the most popular element of the chav uniform is the burberry plaid cap.

stacey cartwright, a burberry executive, argues that this chav business is just a trivial tabloid story. the international brand continues to thrive in chav-free north america and asia, she says. responding to reports that burberry discontinued one of its plaid caps in the u.k., she says that the “small” british market was slow anyway. “the chav issue won’t have helped, but it’s on top of what was already quite a sluggish market,” she says. besides, she continues, “the caps that the so-called chavs wear are actually counterfeit products; they’re not our products.” burberry still offers, for example, a $200 cashmere plaid cap in britain. “that’s out of the price range of most of these individuals,” cartwright says.

21. the best title of this article may be .

a) burberry’s influence upon the chav business

b) the good, the plaid and the ugly

c) the definition of chavness

d) the laws to prevent members of the rabble from dressing above their station

22. from the text, we can infer that the most significant sign of burberry is .

a) plaid pattern b) paisley pattern c) checked pattern d) striped pattern

23. what’s stacey cartwright’s attitude towards the chav business?

a) she thinks burberry will thrive in chav-free areas.

b) she believes the chav business is of no great influence to burberry.