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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习：韩国教育体制大减压 GRE阅读文章：GRE阅读练习：韩国教育体制大减压 GRE考试精品课程训练  FEW countries have done better than South Korea over the pasthalf-century. Within the span of a single working life, its economy has grown17-fold, its government has evolved from an austere dictatorship into a rowdydemocracy, and its culture, once scarred by censorship, now beguiles the worldwith its music, soap operas and cinema. Scholars enthuse about the speed andprecocity of its “compressed development”.  在过去的半个世纪，几乎没有国家表现得比韩国更好。在仅仅 一代工作人口的时间跨度里，韩国经济增长了17倍。韩国政府也从严厉的独裁政权进化成了热闹的民主政体。韩国的文化原来被审查体制弄得千疮百孔，现在韩国的音乐、连续剧和电影席卷世界。学者们对这种快速且早熟的“高压发展”非常关注。  The only people unimpressed by South Korea’s accomplishments maybe South Koreans themselves. As our special report notes, the prosperity theyenjoy has not relieved the competitive pressure they endure. To them, thecountry’s development is compressed in a different way. Its success is confinedto a few big employers and industries. The country’s manufacturers are moreimpressive than its service firms, although these now generate most jobs. Andin manufacturing its big, family-owned conglomerates (the chaebol) do farbetter than their small, hard-pressed suppliers.  唯 一对韩国的成就不以为然的大概只有韩国人自己了。正如本刊特别报道里所说，韩国人所享受的繁荣并没有缓解其承受的竞争压力。对韩国人而言，国家发展是通过其他方式实现的。韩国的成功仅限于几家大企业和大产业。韩国制造业表现要比服务业好得多，虽然现在后者提供大部分的工作岗位。而在制造业中，几家大型的家族式企业集团(即财阀)的表现要比拮据的小型企业好得多。  Unsurprisingly, ambitious young South Koreans crave employment inthe thriving bits of the economy. Medicine, law, finance and government remainpopular, but the chaebol now take the cream. Like the civil service and the professions,Samsung, Hyundai and their peers tend to hire people straight from the bestuniversities, with little chance of entry later in life. This creates a doublebottleneck in the labour market. There are only a few appealing employers tochoose from, and only one realistic chance to join them. So youngsters spendages padding out their CVs and