Question

Preparing for the Next Job Market

The latest spike in the unemployment rate is being felt across the board ?in 98 percent of metropolitan areas, in high-wage and low-wage jobs, among young and old, women and men, but especially men．

This landscape means that young Americans who are trying to plan their futures right now have some hard choices．Do they go to college and take on debt without hope of getting a job? And what about high school students? Do they have any chance of securing a job without a college degree? Perhaps the education system needs to react to this rapidly moving economic crisis．

In our current economic collapse, the connection between education and employment could not be more different than it was during the Depression．Education must now hold center stage, not because of an enemy abroad but because of the global economy．The jobs of the future will demand levels of education, particularly skills in mathematics, technology and science, which exceed those now taught in high school．

A healthy society should strive for full employment．In our times, that goal cannot be realized, or even approximated by creating jobs for the unskilled．The long-term prospect for economic recovery depends on the extent to which we improve our educational system．And this is where America is now at its weakest．

C．We should limit access to four-year colleges．

D．We ought to recruit more private school teachers and train them better．

What does the word "collapse" in the third paragraph mean?

A．success          B．failure     C．development      D．booming

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

A．Young Americans planning their futures have difficult choices．

B．Education must hold center stage due to the global economy．

C．The best university system benefits a majority．

D．A health society should struggle for full employment．

Answer 1

【小題1】C

【小題2】B

【小題3】B

【小題4】C

解析:

【小題1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。第五段指出了今天教學(xué)產(chǎn)出中的不良現(xiàn)象，其中就有are unable to use the tools of mathematics一項(xiàng)。

【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)判斷題。從最后一段第二條措施可以作出判斷。

【小題3】猜測(cè)詞義題。上文提到這個(gè)時(shí)代正處在經(jīng)濟(jì)危機(jī)之中，下文承接上文，講在這個(gè)經(jīng)濟(jì)下滑的時(shí)代，教育和就業(yè)的關(guān)系比20世紀(jì)30年代的經(jīng)濟(jì)大蕭條更難以處理。

【小題4】從第五段We may still have the best university system, but it benefits only a minority．可以判斷最好的大學(xué)也只是滿(mǎn)足了少數(shù)人的教育。