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Walking across the campus of Pittsburgh’s
As I later learned, they were gifted students who had inked the highest-paying deal in the history of their departments.
I asked one young man why he was going to a smaller city in Taxas. The company is excellent, he told me. There are also terrific people and the work is challenging. Though he had several good job offers from
What a change from my own college days, just a little more than 20 years ago, when students would put on their dressiest clothes and carefully hide any counterculture tendencies to prove that they could fit in with the company. Today, apparently, it’s the company trying to fit in with the students.
These young men and their lifestyles represent a lively new force in the enonomy and life of
68. Why were the young people in the university campus?
A. To get recruited in
B. To celebrate their successful recruitment.
C. To relax themselves away from work.
D. To meet their old school mates.
69. Which of he following best describes the author’s attitude towards the young people?
A. Criticizing. B. Disgusting. C. Approving. D. Disappointing.
70. What can you infer from the passage?
A. The young people prefer to work in a small quiet city.
B. The high pay is the main attraction to the young people.
C. Pittsburgh has many advantages over
D.
Walking across the campus of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon
Univers ity one delightful spring day, I came upon a table filled
with young people chatting and enjoying the fine weather．Several
had identical blue T-Shirts with 'Trilogy @CMU" written across them —Trilogy being an Austin,
Texas-based software company with a reputation for recruiting （招聘） our top students．I walked over to the table．"Are you guys here to recruit?" I asked．"No, absolutely not," they replied firmly．"We're not recruiters．We're just hanging out, playing a little Frisbee （飞盘） with our friends．" How interesting, I thought．They've come to campus on a workday, all the way from Austin, just to hang out with some new friends．
As I later learned, they were gifted students who had inked the highest-paying deal in the history of their department．
I asked one young man why he was going to a smaller city in Texas．"The company is excellent", he told me．"There are also terrific people and the work is challenging"．Though he had several good job offers from Pittsburgh's high-tech firms and knew the city well, he said he felt the city lacked the lifestyle options, cultural diversity, and tolerant attitude that would make it attractive to him．As he summed it up: "How would I fit in here?"
What a change from my own college days, just a little more than 20 years ago, when students would put on their dressiest clothes and carefully hide any counterculture tendencies to prove that they could fit in with the company．Today, apparently, it's the company trying to fit in with the students．
These young men and their lifestyle represent a lively new force in the economy and life of America．They are members of what I call the creative class: a fast-growing, highly educated, and well-paid part of the workforce on whose efforts corporate profits and economic growth increasingly depend．They do not consciously think of themselves as a class．Yet they share a common belief that values creativity, individuality, difference, and advantage．
59．What would be the best title for the passage?
A．The rise of the creative class B．New ideas about recruitment
C．Changed working cultures D．A tale of two cities
60．Why were the young people on the university campus?
A．To get recruited in Pittsburgh．
B．To celebrate their successful recruitment．
C．To relax themselves away from work．
D．To meet their old schoolmates．
61．The underlined word "inked" in paragraph 2 probably means "____"．
A．fulfilled B．obtained C．settled D．signed
62．Which of the following best describes the author's attitude towards the young people?
A．Criticizing B．Approving
C．Disappointing D．Disgusting
63．From the passage we can infer that ____．
A．the young people prefer to work in a small quiet city
B．the high pay is the main attraction to the young people
C．Pittsburgh has many advantages over Austin
D．Pittsburgh doesn't have enough attractions to the young people
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identical (相同) a-level grades.
An analysis of the results showed that while 65 percent of female graduates were awarded, only
35 percent of male graduates did as well. Girls are known to outperform boys at school, but this
research showed that the trend continued at university.
Fiona Smith who led the research said, "The research shows that the difference has something
to do with schools in general."
"It also shows something about the inequality for working women in terms of pay and promotion.
Women work harder at school, harder at university, and do better at both, but they still receive less pay."
The research found that female students were more faithful, less likely to miss lectures, and more
likely to believe that their marks reflected their abilities than male students. Female students were also
more likely to ask for and receive support from their professors.
Women were also more likely to choose their universities because they liked the courses offered.
In contrast, men were more likely than women to miss lectures due to "other affairs" and "laziness",
and to believe that playing sports was an important part of university life.
Generally, people think that women's success comes from more emphasis on coursework, but the
research showed that female geographers at Brunel did better in their exams than in their coursework.
Dr. Smith said, "Most women feel that getting grades is the most important part of university life.
They believe that they need to work harder in order to compete in the male-dominated (控制) environment
they will meet at work. Good grades are viewed as an 'insurance policy' for success. Men, on the other
hand, prefer going out and playing sports to academic work."
"This research shows how important it is to get all young people working hard and teach them the
value of higher education," he said.
_________________________________________________________________________________
2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one? Men would play rather than do
academic work.
________________________________________________________________________________
3. Please fill in the blank with proper words or phrases to complete the following sentence. (Please answer
within 20 words.) Most women think ____ in the competition against men.
4. From the passage, we can infer that compared with men, women ____. (Please answer within 10 words.)
5. Translate the underlined sentence in the passage into Chinese.
________________________________________________________________________________
Women work harder than men at university and get better degrees as a result, according to a study at Brunel University.
?? The research, which followed 200 students for four years, found that women consistently outperformed men in their studies even though they had started their courses with almost identical A-level grades.
?? An analysis of the results showed that while 65 percent of female graduates were awarded, only 35 percent of male graduates did as well. Girls are known to outperform boys at school, but this research showed that trend continued at university.
?? Fiona Smith, who led the research, said, “The research shows that the difference has something to do with schools in general.”
?? “It also shows something about the inequality for working women in terms of pay and promotion. Women work harder at school, harder at university, and do better at both, but they still receive less pay.”
?? The research found that female students were more faithful, less likely to miss lectures, and more likely to believe that their marks reflected their abilities than male students. Female students were also more likely to ask for and receive support from their professors.
?? Women were also more likely to choose their universities because they liked the courses offered.
?? In contrast, men were more likely than women to miss lectures due to “other affairs” and “laziness”, and to believe that playing sports was an important part of university life.
?? Generally, people think that women’s success comes from more emphasis on coursework, but the research showed that female geographers at Brunel did better in their exams than in their coursework.
?? Dr Smith said, “Most women feel that getting good grades is the most important part of university life. They believe that they need to work harder in order to compete in the male-dominated (男性主导的) environment they will encounter at work. Good grades are viewed as an ‘insurance policy’ for success. Men, on the other hand, prefer going out and playing sports to academic work.”
?? “This research shows how important it is to get all young people working hard and teach them the value of higher education,” he said.
1.The research at Brunel University showed that women ________.
A. did worse than men both at school and at university
B. got better grades than men
C. paid little attention to their courses
D. often missed classes
2.Which of the following about men is TRUE according to the passage?
A. They work as hard as women.
B. They spend as much time on courses as women.
C. They play a lot more than women.
D. They consider good grades to be an “insurance policy” for success.
3.We can infer from the results of the research that ________.
A. women do better both at school and at university
B. female students are more likely to ask for and receive support from their professors
C. compared with men, women are in an unfavorable condition in the male-dominated world
D. it’s easier for women to get rises in pay and promotion
4.The main purpose of the research is to _________.
A. give the government some advice on higher education
B. show us some information about higher education
C. show the sex difference in higher education
D. make all students work hard and realize the importance of higher education
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The US Department of Labor statistics 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 sports: 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(灌输) 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(入学) 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.
68. It’s implied but not stated in the passage that _______.
A. many other countries are facing the some problem
B. white-collar workers in the
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
69. Which of the following is NOT a reason why college enrollments go up every year?
A. Many believe 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.
70. By saying that “many people go to college who do not belong there”, the author means that ______.
A. many people unfit for college education go to college
B. many people without enough money go to college
C. many people going to college drop out within the first year
D. many people going to college have their hopes destroyed
71. We can infer from the passage that the author believe 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
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