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Students who work during term time to support themselves at university are far more likely to graduate with a poor degree, according to a government-funded study published yesterday.

Undergraduates with part-time jobs are a third less likely to get a first or upper second-class degree than other students, harming their career chances. Students from the poorest backgrounds were most likely to take jobs during term because they could not depend on help from their parents.

The report, commissioned (委托) by the Department for Education and Skills, also found a clear relation between fear of debt and employment in non-graduate jobs. Students from poorer backgrounds are known to be more unwilling to be in debt than those from middle class families.

The study of 8,600 people who graduated in 1999 was made by Peter Elias, of Warwick University, and Kate Purcell, from Bristol Business School. They found that twice as many first-class degrees were awarded to students who did not work during term compared with those who did. Between 35 and 38 percent who worked during term achieved a lower second, compared with about 28 percent of those who did not.

Professor Elias said that the increase in school fees next year to ￡3,000 would have to be monitored (監(jiān)控) carefully for its effect on poorer students. "Higher education is going to be a harder struggle for those who do not come with all the advantages," he said.

He suggested that universities could get in touch with employers to provide work experience on good salaries to choose students during holidays, so that they did not have to work during term.

1.What's the main idea of the passage?

A. Students at university like to take part-time jobs to support themselves,

B. Term-time jobs at university lead to poorer examination results.

C. The school fees are becoming higher and higher at university.

D. Students at university have much difficulty getting first-class degrees.

2.Why did lots of students take term-jobs at university?

A. No one would lend them money to continue their study.

B. They wanted to improve themselves by taking part-time jobs,

C. Their families were poor and couldn't afford the high expense.

D. They thought earning money was more important than studying.

3.Students who took term-jobs at university ____.

A. had no possibility to study better than those who didn't

B. couldn't graduate from school normally in the future

C. might have trouble in finding a job in the future

D. were more independent than those who didn't in the future

4.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Poor students can't take part-time jobs all the time at university.

B. Employers have the duty to help poor students solve the money problem.

C. First class degrees couldn't be given to the students whose families were poor.

D. High school fees are one of the important reasons why students have to take term-jobs.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.B

2.C

3.C

4.D

【解析】

試題分析：有研究表明，大學(xué)生兼職會(huì)影響學(xué)業(yè)， 進(jìn)而影響以后的工作事業(yè)。家庭最貧困的學(xué)生是最有可能在學(xué)期參加工作是因?yàn)樗麄儾荒芤揽扛改傅膸椭�。另外就是高校的高昂的學(xué)費(fèi)。如果可以聯(lián)絡(luò)雇主選擇大學(xué)生假期期間工作怎么樣呢？

1.主旨大意題。根據(jù)第一話可知，根據(jù)昨天公布的政府資助的一項(xiàng)研究表明，大學(xué)生兼職養(yǎng)活自己更可能分?jǐn)?shù)差。這和B項(xiàng)意思一致。所以選B。

2.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段的后一句話可知，家庭最貧困的孩子更可能在學(xué)校兼職因?yàn)椴荒艿玫礁改傅膸椭�，與C（他們的家庭貧窮，不能支付高昂的支出。） 。

3.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段的第一句話可知，大學(xué)生兼職工作有不到三分之一的可能會(huì)得到一流或二流的成績(jī)比其他學(xué)生，這會(huì)傷害他們將來(lái)的的就業(yè)機(jī)會(huì)。所以選C（在大學(xué)兼職的學(xué)生可能將來(lái)找工作會(huì)有麻煩。）。

4.推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段的內(nèi)容可知，明年大學(xué)的學(xué)費(fèi)增加到￡3000必須密切注意對(duì)家庭比較的貧困學(xué)生的影響。高等教育對(duì)那些生來(lái)沒(méi)有優(yōu)勢(shì)的學(xué)生老師將會(huì)更加艱難。與D（高校的學(xué)費(fèi)是學(xué)生兼職工作的重要原因之一。）

考點(diǎn)：生活百味類(lèi)短文閱讀。