【段1】①All around the world, lawyers generate more hostility than the members of any other profession— with the possible exception of journalism. ②But there are few places where clients have more grounds for complaint than America.
【段2】①During the decade before the economic crisis, spending on legal services in America grew twice as fast as inflation. ②The best lawyers made skyscrapers-full of money, tempting ever more students to pile into law schools. ③But most law graduates never get a big-firm job. ④Many of them instead become the kind of nuisance-lawsuit filer that makes the tort system a costly nightmare.
【段3】①There are many reasons for this. ②One is the excessive costs of a legal education. ③There is just one path for a lawyer in most American states: a four-year undergraduate degree in some unrelated subject, then a three-year law degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the bar exam. ④This leaves today’s average law-school graduate with $100,000 of debt on top of undergraduate debts. ⑤Law-school debt means that they have to work fearsomely hard.
【段4】①Reforming the system would help both lawyers and their customers. ②Sensible ideas have been around for a long time, but the state-level bodies that govern the profession have been too conservative to implement them. ③One idea is to allow people to study law as an undergraduate degree. ④Another is to let students sit for the bar after only two years of law school. ⑤If the bar exam is truly a stern enough test for a would-be lawyer, those who can sit it earlier should be allowed to do so. ⑥Students who do not need the extra training could cut their debt mountain by a third.
【段5】①The other reason why costs are so high is the restrictive guild-like ownership structure of the business. ②Except in the District of Columbia, non-lawyers may not own any share of a law firm. ③This keeps fees high and innovation slow. ④There is pressure for change from within the profession, but opponents of change among the regulators insist that keeping outsiders out of a law firm isolates lawyers from the pressure to make money rather than serve clients ethically.
【段6】①In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms’ efficiency. ②After all, other countries, such as Australia and Britain, have started liberalizing their legal professions. ③America should follow.
30.In this text, the author mainly discusses
[A] flawed ownership of America’s law firms and its causes.
[B] the factors that help make a successful lawyer in America.
[C] a problem in America’s legal profession and solutions to it.
[D] the role of undergraduate studies in America’s legal education.
答案：C
问：下列哪项不是本文的主题词？
A : America
B : a successful lawyer
C : lawyer
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