It's Graduation Day—a day that's getting quite familiar to Marc and Beverly Ostrofsky of Houston.Today, they'll 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 what's 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 that's not including graduate school.One daughter informed Marc that she now wants to seek her PhD.Marc is the bestselling author of Get Rich Click, and a multimillionaire from Internet businesses.“We're fortunate that we can take care of it，” Beverly said.“We decided a long time ago we didn't 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 collegeready 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 Kelly's graduation, then to St.Louis for Shelly's 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．“It's like wiping the sweat off the forehead now.It's time to think about what we can do.Perhaps we'll take a vacation abroad，” he said.
The Ostrofsky family said their advice to parents who have many children is to start planning and saving from the day the children are born.
1．Graduation Day is familiar to Marc and Beverly Ostrofsky because________．
A．they like going to school on Graduation Day
B．they need to attend their daughters' graduation ceremony several times
C．they have experienced it on their own Graduation Day
D．they are often invited to school to have a speech on Graduation Day
2．What do we know about Mr and Mrs Ostrofsky from Paragraph 2?
A．They would rather their daughters had applied for college loans.
B．They now work hard in order to pay for the college expenses.
C．They don't want their daughters to go to graduate school.
D．They can afford their daughters' college expenses.
3．What does Paragraph 3 mainly tell us?
A．Mr and Mrs Ostrofsky like visiting their daughters by plane.
B．Mr and Mrs Ostrofsky' s daughters often come back home for holidays.
C．Mr and Mrs Ostrofsky spend a lot of money on their daughters' traveling.
D．Mr and Mrs Ostrofsky are tired because their five daughters are in different colleges.
4．The underlined word “breather” in Paragraph 4 probably means________．
A．check B．break C．adventure D．attempt