单选题
A dispute that. according to Members of Parliament (MPs), threatens the very survival of London Metropolitan University (London Met), the capital"s biggest higher education institution, is spilling over onto London"s streets. Last week lorry drivers on Holloway Road in Islington watched as a group of students and staff marched in protest against a meeting of London Met"s governors.
"Save our Staff" and "London Met on the Roper." a reference to the university"s vice-chancellor, Professor Brian Roper, screamed the banners.
The university, which has 34,000 students, has long attracted controversy for the militancy of its staff and students, but the latest row is a more serious matter. This crisis is over an attempt by the Higher Education Funding Council (Hefc) to claw back more than ￡50m that London Met should not have received. It is believed that as many as 500 jobs could go as a result of the university having been overpaid for student dropouts since 2005, and the unions are furious, claiming at the same time that the university is being unfairly treated by Hefc but that neither the managers nor the governors have explored the alternatives to job cuts.
"The University and College Union (UCU) is very concerned that the Hefc regulations appear to discriminate against widening participation," said a UCU spokesperson. "But we also feel very strongly about the fact that the management are not consulting the unions as they are required to do in law and that they have not considered alternatives like a freeze on new appointments."
One of the issues in dispute is whether students who did not take their assessments at the end of the year but were intending to take them the following year should be classified as drop-outs. Hefc considers them to have dropped out and says that its funding definitions apply to all universities regardless; UCU believes they should not be classified in this way on the grounds that they need all the help they can" get to complete the course.
The dispute has also hit the House of Commons. An early day motion signed by MPs says that the scale of the cuts—an 18m reduction in teaching budgets and 38m in claw-backs for previous years—"throws the future operability of the university into doubt at a time when education and training are vital to the capital"s economic health."
单选题
The dispute mentioned is partly between ______.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 此题细节定位于首段最后一句，“Last week lorry drivers on Holloway Road in Islington watched as a group of students and staff marched in protest against a meeting of London Met"s governors.”，在抗议伦敦的一次会议上遇到了州长，因此选择C。
单选题
"London Met on the Roper" implies that ______.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 由第1、2段可以推理出答案，“London Met on the Roper”这个标语是说London Met的危机，因此“London Met is at risk”贴合题意，故选B。
单选题
Hefc is to take back over ￡50m from London Met, believing that, for years, the latter ______.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 根据第3段第3句话，“It is believed that as many as 500 jobs could go as a result of the university having been overpaid for student dropouts since 2005...”，2005年以后，大学因为学生辍学而超额支付费用，因此选择D。
单选题
The unions are angry with the school management because the latter ______.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 根据第3段第3句话后部分，“...claiming at the same time that the university is being unfairly treated by Hefc but that neither the managers nor the governors have explored the alternatives to job cuts”，没有寻找代替裁员的方法，以及第4段第2句，因此选择A。
单选题
According to UCU, Hefc should include in its funding system the students who choose to take their assessments ______.