input: OPTIONS:
- the calculation of different costs including tuition
- the extremely hard financial situation in America
- the excitement of students' being able to enter ideal colleges
- the financial crisis of families over college entrance Now, answer this question: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Mike Maietta was eating lunch when he got a text message from his mom. "Notre Dame," it said. " _ !" Mike, a senior at a Californian high school, shouted with joy. The big envelope meant that the excellent university in Indiana had offered him a place in its Class of 2013. But the $51,300 annual fee is a big trouble. So Mike and his parents are considering offers from several other colleges and are figuring out the costs of tuition, housing and holiday trips home. This year, money is the driving factor for a growing number of high school seniors, who have to decide what colleges to attend this fall. Less jobs and house prices have changed family spending. "We're excited that Mike got into eight great schools," said Mike's father, an engineer at Microsoft. "But if you consider going to school out of state, you've got to think about all of the other costs: moving, flying back and forth for the holidays. You're looking at about $3,000 a year, just for travel." As families weigh their choices, some are going back to financial aid offices hoping help packages can be increased. Rachel Brown was happy to get a thick envelope from New York University (NYU). Although she has always wanted to live in Manhattan, she is seriously considering the University of California San Diego (UCSD), because of the high cost in New York. "The tuition for NYU is twice as much as UCSD," said Rachel, 17. "My mom doesn't want me to have a big debt when I graduate, and I don't want that either. I'd have to take out a loan of $15,000. I'll check and see if there's any way that NYU can offer me any financial aid." More than 7.6 million American students have filled out the Free Application for Students Aid, 19.9 percent increase over last year. This month the Federal Department of Education urged college financial aid officers to give more help to certain families. A record 30,428 students applied for 2,300 places at Stanford, partly because the university increased financial aid for families earning below $10,000. Question: The passage mainly focuses on _ Answer:
A:
output: the financial crisis of families over college entrance

Read the following article and answer the question. Article: A senior United Nations Children's Fund(UNICEF) official on May 29 praised China for its remarkable achievements in children's welfare . A. H. M. Farook, UNICEF's operations area officer for prefix = st1 /ChinaandMongoliasaid thatChina"can be very satisfied to tell the whole world what can be done with limited resources to help its children to grow healthily and happily." China's child population makes up one-fifth of the world's total. "The reason behind the tremendous achievement is China's long tradition of caring for children both at home and in society," he said. "What's more is that Chinese people have always given special attention to children who are in special need." The UN official made the remarks when addressing a group of 50 children and staff from the Beijing Children's Welfare Home at the Shangri-la Hotel, Beijing. The hotel invited the orphans to share snacks , sing, dance and play games at a park inside the hotel for a "Share the Sunshine" party, as a prelude to celebrations to mark the Children's Day. The Beijingchildren's Welfare Home, set up soon after New China was founded in 1949, has at present more than 400 children. A leading official of the welfare institution said that the children live a happy life and that the agency spends 400--500 yuana month for an average orphan. An average Chinese workers earned 440yuana month during the first quarter this year. Gu Xiaojin, deputy secretary-general of the China Youth Development Foundation(CYDF), said people from all walks of life have contributed to the welfare of the Chinese children. She said that CYDF set up the Project Hope in 1989, which calls on people across the country to donate money to help poor children to continue their schooling. By the end of last year, she said, CYDF had collected nearly 700 million yuanin donations, which has helped the establishment of 2, 074 Hope primary schools and enabled more than 1. 25 million dropouts to return to school classrooms. Three "Hope Stars" also attended the... Question: Every year the Beijing Children's Welfare Home spends _ on the orphans Answer:

OPTIONS:
- 1, 920, 000 yuan
- 2, 160, 000 yuan
- Over 2, 400, 000 yuan
- 2, 200, 000 yuanor so

Answer: 2, 200, 000 yuanor so

Read the following article and answer the question. Article: A boy won the grand prize at the 2012 International Science and Engineering Fair, the largest high school science competition in the world. The Maryland teenager Jack Andraka is the youngest winner of the $75,000 prize. He was chosen from among l,500 students in 70 countries. Jack invented a test for pancreatic cancer( ). He started to learn it after losing a close family friend to the disease. "I went on the Internet and I found that 85 percent of all pancreatic cancers are found late, when someone has less than a 2% chance of survival he says. "and I was thinking, 'That's not right and we should be able to do something."' He found that early discovery is important to increase the chances of suryiving the disease. Jack asked to work in a laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and was allowed. There he developed a simple paper test. which can recognize the disease in a single drop of blood. His test has proven correct 90% of the time. It also is 100 times more sensitive than other tests. "It costs 3 Jack's success wouldn't have been possible without Anirban Maitra . a professor at Johns Hopkins, who was the only person among the 200 researchers Jack wrote to and who showed interest in his project "I was very surprised that it was a 15-year-old who was writing this. I wanted to meet this clever young man and see what he wanted to talked about. so I called for him over for an interview," Maitra said. Jack worked in Professor Maitra's laboratory completing his project in 7 months. The government bas given the Maryland teenager patent rights to the pancreatic cancer test. He is now talking with companies about developing the test into a simple product . Whatever happens, the professor believes that Jack Andraka's name is one we will be hearing again over the next 10 to 20 years. Question: What made Jack Andraka research pancreatic cancer? _ . Answer:
OPTIONS:
- A high school task.
- A professor's encouragement
- The loss of a friend.
- Doubts about the present test.

Answer:
The loss of a friend.