Question

When people advise your children to “get an education”, they tell you only half the truth. What they really mean is to get just enough education to give manpower for your society.

Get a high school diploma, at least. Without that, you are occupationally（职业上） dead, unless your name happens to be George Bernard Shaw or Thomas Alva Edison and you can successfully stop studying in primary school.

Get a college degree, if possible. with a BA（学士学位），you should start to find a job, You have to put on the brakes now. If you do go for a master’s degree, make sure it is an MBA and only from a first — class university, Otherwise, the famous law of diminishing（报酬递减律）begins to work..

Do you know, for example, that long — distance truck drivers make more money a year than full professors（正教授）？Yes, each driver was paid ﹩28,000 in 1997 while a full professor managed to get﹩27,930.

A PhD is the highest degree you can get, but except in few specialized fields such as physics or chemistry, where the degree can quickly be turned to industrial or commercial aim, you are facing a not very bright future. There are more PhDs unemployed in this country than in any other part of the world by far.

If you become a PhD in English or history or political science or languages or —worst of all— in philosophy, you take the risk of becoming over-educated for our national demands.

Thousands of PhDs are selling shoes, driving taxis, vomiting（呕吐）on tables and filling out applications month after month, and then may be taking a job in high school or college with the pay much less than a door – keeper makes.

1．According to the writer, the society expects education to turn out people who will     .

A．raise their payment                               B．become specialized in some way

C．have a bright future                              D．meet the demands as a source of manpower

2．If you don’t want to be occupationally dead, you      .

A．should look for a job in a primary school

B．must at least get a high school diploma

C．have to change your name for Bernard Shaw or Edison

D．should go on learning and become a doctor or physicist or chemist

3．The underlined phrase “put on the brakes “ in paragraph three means      .

A．stop learning for a higher degree           

B．take up a master’s degree at once

C．go on studying in a first — class university

D．find an interesting job

4．Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Neither Bernard Shaw nor Edison finished high school

B．There are more PhDs than the society demands.

C．The higher education level is, the more money you will earn.

D．If you are overeducated, you can not easily get a good job.

Answer 1

BBAC