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嘉峪关市第一中学2015届高三第三次模拟考试英语试题 第Ⅰ卷第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分 ） （共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） A Its Graduation Day—a day thats getting quite familiar to Marc and Beverly Ostrofsky of Houston.Today, theyll attend two graduation ceremonies, one for their daughter Shelly, 22, from Washington University in St.Louis and another for their daughter, Mary Grace, 18, from Kincaid High School.Mary Grace will head to Boston University.Kelly, 22, graduated last Sunday from Duke University.Tracy, 20, is a sophomore (二年级学生) at the University of Denver.The oldest, Maddy, 23, graduated from Berklee College of Music last year. So whats the cost of putting five daughters through college？Beverly told ABC News $60，000 to $70，000 a year.In total, the family will spend about $1.5 million on college after taxes and thats not including graduate school.One daughter informed Marc that she now wants to seek her PhD.Marc is the best-selling author of Get Rich Click, and a multi-millionaire from Internet businesses.“Were fortunate that we can take care of it，” Beverly said.“We decided a long time ago we didnt want the girls to take out college loans, so that was our commitment to them.” Marc and Beverly married five years ago, blending (融合) their own daughters into one big family of college-ready girls.Beverly said they wanted their daughters to have a choice of where they wanted to go to college, but having their children spread throughout the US created another expense—flying all of them home for holidays and visits.Just this week, Marc flew to North Carolina for Kellys graduation, then to St.Louis for Shellys graduation and hopes to make it back just in time to Houston for Mary Grace s graduation tonight. With the last child leaving home for college, Marc says he and Beverly are going to take a breather．“Its like wiping the sweat off the forehead now.Its time to think about what we can do.Perhaps well take a vacation abroad，” he said. The Ostrofsky family said their advice to parents who have many children is t