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13. Top college graduates are having more difficulty demonstrating their superiority to prospective employers than did the top students of twenty years ago when an honors degree was distinction enough. Today’s employers are less impressed with the honors degree. Twenty years ago no more than 10 percent of a given class graduated with honors. Today, however, because of grade inflation, the honors degree goes to more than 50 percent of a graduating class. Therefore, to restore confidence in the degrees they award, colleges must take steps to control grade inflation.

Which one of the following is an assumption that, if true, would support the conclusion in the passage?

(A) Today’s students are not higher achievers than the students of twenty years ago.

(E) Colleges must make employers aware of the criteria used to determine who receives an honors degree.

现在学校的honors degree学生没有superiority，二十年前的honors degree学生就足够distinction了，然后以前honors degree只给前百分之十的学生，现在却给了超过百分之五十的学生。做出的结论：要使honors degree学生有足够的superiority（restore confidence），学校必须控制grade inflation

其实题目中可以读出来你honors degree学生对于非荣誉学位学生的superiority就在于你是前百分之多少，那么根据这个我们重新翻译一下题目中结论就是：要使更少的人得到荣誉学位，学校必须控制grade inflation

看到A可以想到，光不让分数提高就能够减少荣誉学位发放量了么？万一学生们做的更好了呢？那么就算分数不升高，得到荣誉学位的人也还是比二十年前的比率高，还是不能够完全restore confidence，所以A是一个不错的support

至于B，它说反了，提高分数是会提高荣誉学位的发放量，如果反之也成立，那么就成为一个相互加强的漩涡一样的控制不了的循环，就根本不受控制了……这个可能是我说多了，总之看准A，就不会选B了

但是现在感觉B说的是inflation的事,而题中的结论是: to restore confidence---the schools have to control the grade inflation....需要找的是对这个结论的一个假设.