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问题     It is rare for a tale of academic mismanagement in a small institution to grab national attention. But Sciences-Po is no ordinary university. The four most recent French presidents, including Frangois Hollande, studied there. In the heart of the Parisian left bank, it attracts top-rated students and staff. And it has been without a head since its former director, Richard Descoings, died suddenly in April in a New York hotel room.
    Now a report on Sciences-Po by the national auditor that talks of "management failure" and " numerous violations " has sparked furious debate. Critics have seized on managerial extravagance. Aggrieved students, whose tuition fees have risen sharply, have denounced excessive pay. Others have called for board resignations. And the higher-education minister, Genevieve Fioraso, has rejected Sciences-Po’s choice of successor—Herve Cres, its deputy director—and imposed a caretaker.
    Sciences-Po is an odd creature. The state finances half its budget, but the school is run by a private foundation and is thus unconstrained by rules about selection, fees and salary caps that bind other public universities. Between 2005 and 2010, the school’s budget jumped by over 60% , the state subsidy rose by a third and Sciences-Po more than doubled its student intake, to 3,500. But, says the auditor, it added too many administrative staff, paid them and faculty members too much(Descoings earned €537,247 or $711,585 in 2010)and also took on "risky debt". The mismanagement, admits one professor, was "scandalous".
    Sciences-Po says it will clean things up and improve transparency. But the debate has broadened: should it return to its old role as a public-service feeder for the Ecole Nationale D’Administration(ENA), the top civil-service graduate school? Or should Sciences-Po continue with Descoings’s project to turn it into an American-style university that competes globally for students and researchers?
    For all his faults, Descoings boldly took on the French establishment. He built exchanges with American universities and lured foreign students to Paris. He recruited students from heavily immigrant suburbs. And he got the school to set up new research centers, such as an economics department. He did all this with a flexibility over recruitment that the French university establishment disliked. "It is very difficult to attract the best and maintain a center of excellence without this autonomy," says another faculty member, fretful that it could now be compromised.
    The trouble is that in the conservative mind, the scandal of Sciences-Po’s mismanagement has undermined its credibility. The old elite may now have a stronger hand against the international-minded inheritors of Descoings. Ms. Fioraso wants a new director to be chosen by January. The caretaker who must find one happens to be a former ENA classmate of Mr. Hollande’s. [br] It can be inferred from the third paragraph that______.
选项 A、Sciences-Po is funded and operated by the state
B、universities are restricted by the regulations about pay caps
C、the financial aids from the state were decreased from 2005 to 2010
D、Richard Descoings was overpaid in 2010
答案 D
解析 推理题。文章第三段第四句提到，巴黎政治学院付给行政人员以及教职员工过高的薪水，并以德库安2010年的薪水为例，由此推知，德库安在2010年的报酬过高，所以[D]为正确答案。[A]“巴黎政治学院由国家资助和运营”与第三段第二句中提到的学院是由一家私人基金会运营的意思相反，故排除；第三段第二句指出国家资助其一半的预算，但学院是由一家私人基金会运营的，因此不受与招聘、费用和工资上限有关规定的约束，而这些规定约束着其他的公立大学，即一般的公立大学会受到上述的约束，并非所有大学，因此[B]“大学受到关于工资上限规定的约束”为过度推断，故排除；由第三段第三句可知，在2005年至2010年期间，该学院的预算上涨了60％，国家补助增加了三分之一，并且巴黎政治学院的新生人数翻了一倍多，达到3500人，可知[C]不正确，故排除。
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