20131224贵州省成人高等教育学士学位课程考试.doc

贵州省成人高等教育本科毕业生申请 学士学位英语课程考试学习与辅导 （非英语专业） Part I Reading Comprehension Directions:There are thiry passages in this part.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C,and D,You should decide on the best choice of them.Mark your answers on your Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. Passage 1 The U.S.Department of Labor statistics indicates that there is an oversupply of college-trained workers and that this oversupply is increasing.Already there is an overabundance of teachers,engineers,physicists and other specialists.Yet colleges and graduate schers continue every year to turn our highly trained people to compete for jobs that aren’t there.(1)The result is that the graduates cannot enter the professions for which they are trained and must take temporary jobs,which do not require a college degree.These“temporary”jobs have a habit of becoming permanent. On the other hand,three is a tremendous need for skilled workers of all sorts:carpenters,electricians,mechanics,and TV repairmen. (2)These people have more work than they can handle and their annual incomes are often higher than those of college graduates.The old distinction that white-collar workers make a better living than blue-collar workers longer holds true. The reason for this situation is the traditional myth that a college degree is a passport to bright future.Parents begin telling their children this myth before they are out of school.Under this pressure the kids fall in line .Whether they want to go to college or not doesn’t matter.Evverbody should go tl college. One result of this emphasis on a collete education is that many people go to college who do not belong there.Of the sixty percent of high school graduates who enter collete,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 givp up. 1.The U.S.Department of Labor sta