【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[听力原文] Nearly one in eleven graduates are unemployed six months after leaving university—the highest proportion for 17 years, a study reveals today. Rising numbers of graduates are taking jobs that do not require degrees, including as waiters and checkout workers, the survey of almost 225000 graduates shows. The research, by the Higher Education Careers Services Unit Charity, covered 82% of those who completed an undergraduate degree last summer and now live in the UK. The researchers interviewed the graduates in January—six months after they left university. It comes as the ministers plan to increase the amount graduates pay for their degrees. That means starting salary for graduates has not kept pace with inflation and now starting salary is ￡19695—an ￡18 rise than last year, the survey found. Those who had studied Chinese had the highest starting salary at ￡24540 a year, while fine art graduates started on the lowest wage at ￡14625. The public sector is one of the 'very few' areas that has continued to recruit graduates in the recession, the charity said. Charlie Ball, the charity's representative research director, said he expected employment rates to rise, but he added, 'If the anticipated public sector job cuts, the future in the medium term looks less clear. It depends on what the government does and how the private sector reacts. This will determine things for graduates for the next three to four years.' What can we infer from the survey of almost 225 000 graduates?