2021年6月大学英语六级阅读练习题教育是抢劫吗.docVIP

2021年6月大学英语六级阅读练习题教育是抢劫吗 【导语】英语四六级考试将要在202*年6月进行，日常的备考，听说读写都要关注，其中阅读理解是考生复习的重点和难点，日常备考需要加强英文阅读练习，下面是小编四六级频道为大家整理的《202*年6月大学英语六级阅读练习题:教育是抢劫吗?》一文，希望给大家带来帮助。 202*年6月大学英语六级阅读精练50篇汇总 　　英语六级阅读理解精炼第39篇，练习教育是抢劫吗?，含有六级阅读练习题，参考译文，答案等内容。供正在准备英语六级考试的学习者参考学习。 　　39. is education a robbery? 　　one of our expectations about education is that it will pay off1 in terms of upward mobility. historically, the correlation between education and income has been strong. but in the early 1970 s a contradiction developed between education and the economy. our value of education and our average educational attainment outstripped the capacity of the economy to absorb the graduates. since the 1970 s, high-school graduates have experienced a striking decrease in earnings, making them the first generation since world warⅡ to face a lower standard of living than their parents had. 　　experts have argued that this contradiction is at the heart of the problem of public education today. it is not, as business leaders claim, that the schools are failing to properly educate students, that they are turning out2 young people who are inadequately prepared to function in the workplace . the real problem is a dearth of economic opportunities for students who are not continuing on to college . 　　college graduates also are having difficulty finding jobs. even when they do, the jobs may not be commensurate with3 their training and expectations. part of the problem is that too many young americans aspire to have professional jobs, making disappointment and frustration inevitable for some. many students assumed that what was true of an individu-al — that the higher the education, the better the job opportunities —would also be true for an entire society4. but when the numbers of better-educated young people became too great, the economy could no longer absorb them 　　another part of the problem is the assumption that greater educational attainment guarantees career advancement. in fact, employers do not routinely re