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Spring is here: flowers are in bloom, birdsong fills the air, and the inboxes of employers are filled with desperate pleas for s

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问题    Spring is here: flowers are in bloom, birdsong fills the air, and the inboxes of employers are filled with desperate pleas for summer internships. College students and graduates are well aware of the impact a desirable placement could have on their careers. With ever fewer entry-level jobs in many industries, internships have become a critical first step into employment. In America, three-quarters of students on a four-year university course will have labored as an intern at least once before graduation. Up to half of these sharp-sighted workers will have given their services free. Some may even have had to pay for the privilege of coming to work.
   Unpaid internships seem to be an example of mutual benefits: inexperienced youngsters learn something about a chosen field while employers get to farm out some unskilled work. The arrangement is consensual, and companies often use internships to test potential recruits. But the increasing popularity of these unpaid placements has caused some controversy lately. Nick Clegg, Britain’s deputy prime minister, recently launched a campaign to ban them, arguing that they favor the wealthy and privileged. Others complain that uncompensated internships violate labor standards, exploit new employees and surely depress wages for everyone else. In America, they tend to be illegal at for-profit companies, according to guidelines set out in 1947. But the Department of Labor barely enforces such rules, in part because interns are often too afraid to file complaints.
   Organizations in America save $ 2 billion a year by not paying interns a minimum wage, writes Ross Perlin in "Intern Nation" , a new book about the "highly competitive race to the bottom of the corporate ladder". Perhaps one-third of all internships at for-profit companies are unpaid, and interns now often fill roles once held by full-time employees.
   To avoid legal complications, companies often encourage students to work in exchange for academic credits from their colleges. But such credits can cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Some colleges exempt their fees or earn them by offering guidance and supervision. For many institutions, however, they are an easy source of revenue, more beneficial to themselves than their students.
   Calls for new labor laws that reflect the growing prominence of internships have got nowhere. Instead, interns will have to look out for each other, for example by rating their experiences on the Internet. At any rate, students may be encouraged by a rare bit of good news from the National Association of Colleges and Employers: employers intend to hire 19% more graduates this year than last. This should spare some from the hard boring work without pay.
What’s the subject of the text?
选项 A、The ways to get an internship
B、The interns’ troubles
C、Unpaid internships
D、The internship laws
答案C
解析 此题为主旨大意题。本文第一段引出大学生实习这一话题，谈到实习生愿意无偿实习。第二段中作者引用尼克.克莱格的观点，认为实习只对富人和有特权的人有利，还提到无薪实习在盈利性公司是违法的，但实习生们不敢投诉。第三段提到罗斯.柏林在其新书《实习生国度》中也谈到无薪实习的问题。第四段接着谈到很多公司为了避免无薪实习带来的法律纠纷，鼓励学生以实习换取学分。最后讲到由于解决无薪实习问题的进展缓慢，实习生们只能靠相互间的关照。所以整篇文章都是围绕无薪实习这一话题展开的，由此可知C选项为正确答案。
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