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[考研类试卷]考研英语（阅读）模拟试卷59 Part A Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points) 0 Jacoby Myers, a pioneer in fighting in the 1970s for lawyers right to advertise, embodies what many people dislike about American lawyers. The firm appeals new clients with advertisements which lure people with dreams of huge payouts. Remember that guy? Who came in second at the last New York Marathon? Neither do we. Winning is everything, boasted one of its commercials in 2011. Today, the firm is trying to win another suit to change the rules of Americas legal industry. If successful, the suit would allow non-lawyer investors to put money in a law firm. Currently law firms, whether a single shingle or one like Jones Day may have only one corporate form anywhere except the District of Columbia: a partnership owned only by lawyers. Jacoby Myers says that the existing rules violate its freedoms of speech and assembly. It has lined up non-lawyer investors who would buy a chunk of the firm and share its profits, if allowed to do so. Andrew Finkelstein, the firms managing partner, says that outside capital would allow the firm to upgrade technology and take advantage of scale, whose is simply to give more clients with low incomes access to justice. The American Bar Association(ABA), which indirectly sets the rules that regulate lawyers, opposes the change. Lawyers, it argues, are not businesspeople with a duty to the bottom line, but professionals with an ethical duty to their clients best interests. Outside investors could push lawyers to file junk suits or take quick settlements to maximise profits. Yet the reality on the ground in America suggests that change is badly needed. Many law firms are less than the sum of their parts. Partners are semi-independent barons, complete with associate lawyers as serfs. Nearly all work is billed by the hour, meaning effic