The U.S. Department of Labor statistics(統(tǒng)計(jì)) show that there is an oversupply of college trained workers and that this oversupply is increasing. Already there have been more than enough teachers, engineers, physicists, aerospace experts, and other specialists. Yet colleges and graduate schools continue every year to turn out highly trained people to compete for jobs that aren’t there. The result is that graduates cannot enter the professions for which they were trained and must take temporary jobs which do not require a college degree.

On the other hand, there is a great need for skilled workers of all sorts: carpenters, electricians, mechanics, plumbers, TV repairmen. These people have more work than they can deal with, and their annual incomes are often higher than those of college graduates. The old gap that white —collar workers make a better living than blue collar workers no longer holds true. The law of supply and demand now favors the skilled workmen.

The reason for this situation is the traditional myth that college degree is a passport to a prosperous future. A large part of American society matches success in life equally with a college degree. Parents begin indoctrinating(灌輸) their children with this myth before they are out of grade school. High school teachers play their part by acting as if high school education were a preparation for college rather than for life. Under this pressure the kids fall in line. Whether they want to go to college or not doesn’t matter. Everybody should go to college, so of course they must go. And every year college enrollments(入學(xué)) go up and up, and more and more graduates are overeducated for the kinds of jobs available to them.

One result of this emphasis on a college education is that many people go to college who do not belong there. Of the sixty percent of high school graduates who enter college, half of them do not graduate with their class. Many of them drop out within the first year. Some struggle on for two or three years and then give up.

1. It’s implied but not stated in the passage that _______.

    A. many other countries are facing the same problem

    B. white-collar workers in the US used to make more money than blue-collar workers

    C. fewer students will prefer to go to college in the future

    D. the law of supply and demand has a strong effect on American higher education

2. Which of the following is NOT a reason why college enrollments go up every year？   

    A. Many people believe that the only way to success is a college education.

    B. Many parents want their children to go to college.

    C. High school teachers urge their students to go to college.

    D. Every young man and woman wants to go to college.

3. By saying that “many people go to college who do not belong there”, the author means that _______.

    A. many people who are not fit for college education go to college

    B. many people who do not have enough money go to college

    C. many people who go to college drop out within the first year

    D. many people who go to college have their hopes destroyed

4. We can infer from the passage that the author believes that _______.

    A. every young man and woman should go to college

    B. college education is a bad thing

    C. people with a college education should receive higher pay

    D. fewer people should go to college while more should be trained for skilled jobs

1--4   BDAD  


解析:

本文通過(guò)調(diào)查分析告訴人們要改變傳統(tǒng)觀(guān)念應(yīng)首先考慮選擇技術(shù)工作的培訓(xùn)—因?yàn)樗瞬?缺乏，待遇更高。

1. B。推斷題。閱讀全文可知 A、C 原文沒(méi)有提到，D 在原文已明確提到，再根據(jù) The old gap that white-collar workers make a better living than blue collar workers no longer holds true. The law of supply and demand now favors the skilled workmen 可推知在人們的眼中，白領(lǐng)工人以前比藍(lán)領(lǐng)工人賺錢(qián)多，故 B 為正確選項(xiàng)。

2. D。細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù) Whether they want to go to college or not doesn’t matter. Everybody should go to college, so of course they must go 可知上大學(xué)不是出于學(xué)生本意，而是出于父母及學(xué)校等方面的壓力，可見(jiàn) D 不是大學(xué)入學(xué)人數(shù)增加的原因。

3. A。推斷題。 根據(jù)最后一段 Of the sixty percent of high school graduates who enter college, half of them do not graduate with their class. Many of them drop out within the first year. Some struggle on for two or three years and then give up 可知作者列舉了三種情況，說(shuō)明有些人不適合大學(xué)教育，故選A。

4. D。推斷題。閱讀全文可知作者通過(guò)調(diào)查告訴人們大學(xué)教育人才過(guò)多，而技術(shù)工人又非常缺乏，因而待遇反而更高；接著又分析了造成這種狀況的傳統(tǒng)觀(guān)念；最后還談到了很多上了大學(xué)卻因種種原因無(wú)法完成學(xué)業(yè)，所有這些都在暗示人們上大學(xué)的人應(yīng)該減少，而參加技術(shù)工作培訓(xùn)的人應(yīng)該增多，故選D。

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