Passage Four
Not so long ago almost any student who successfully completed a university degree could, find a good career quite easily. Companies toured the academic institutions, competing with each other to select graduates. However, those days are gone, even in Hong Kong, and nowadays graduates often face strong competition in the search for jobs.
Most careers organizations highlight three stages for graduates to follow in the process of securing a suit- able career: recognizing abilities, matching these to available jobs and presenting them well to possible employers,
Job seekers have to make a careful assessment of their own abilities. One area of assessment should be of their academic qualifications, which would include special skills within their subject area. Graduates should also consider their own personal values and attitudes. An honest assessment of personal interests and abilities such as creative skills, or skills acquired from work exp
A. finding a good career used to be easier in Hong Kong than elsewhere
B. now everyone in Hong Kong has an equal chance of finding a good job
C. graduates now face stronger competition in Hong Kong than elsewhere
D. even in Hong Kong companies tour universities trying to select graduates
Passage One
Long bus rides are like television shows. They have a beginning,a middle, and an end-with commercials thrown in every three or four minutes. The commercials are unavoidable. They happen whether you want them or not. Every couple of minutes a billboard glides by outside the bus window. “Buy Super Clean Toothpaste”“Drink Good’n Wet Root Beer.” “Fill up with Pacific Gas.”Only if you sleep, which is equal to turning the television set off,are you spared the unending cry of "You Need It! Buy It Now!" The beginning of the ride is comfortable and somewhat exciting, even if you’ve traveled that way before. Usually some things have changed-new houses, new buildings, sometimes even a new road. The bus driver has a style of driving and it’s fun to try to figure it out the first hour or so. If the driver is particularly reckless or daring, the ride can be as thrilling as a suspense story. Wil
A. Buses on the road
B. Films on television
C. Advertisements on the board
D. Gas stations
Passage One
Like most people, I’ve long understood that I will be judged by my occupation, that my profession is a gauge people use to see how smart or talented I am. Recently, however, I was disappointed to see that it also decides how I’m treated as a person.
Last year I left a professional position as a small-town reporter and took a job waiting tables. As someone paid to serve food to people, I had customers say and do things to me I suspect they’d never say or do to their most casual acquaintances. One night a man talking on his cell phone waved me away, then beckoned (示意) me back with his finger a minute later, complaining he was ready to order and asking where I’d been.
I had waited tables during summers in college and was treated like a peon (勤杂工) by plenty of people. But at 19 years old, I believed I deserved inferior treatment from professional adults. Besides, people responded to me differently after I to
A. one’s position is used as a gauge to measure one’s intelligence
B. talented people like her should fail to get a respectable job
C. one’s occupation affects the way one is treated as a person
D. professionals tend to look down upon manual workers
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invented, I assume, a call was placed. The caller was a parent saying, "Your
child is bullying my child, and I want it stopped!" The bully’s parent replied.
"You must have the wrong number. My child is a little angel." A
trillion phone calls later. The conversation is the same. When children are
teased or tyrannized, the parental impulse is to grab the phone and rant. But
these days, as studies in the US show bullying on the rise and parental
supervision on the decline, researchers who study bullying say that calling moms
and dads is more futile than ever. Such calls often lead to playground
recriminations(指责) and don’t really teach our kids any lessons about how to
navigate the world and resolve conflicts. "When you call parents, you want them to ’extract the cruelty’ from their bull A. has long existed but changed its content B. is often done with careful thinking C. often leads to blaming and misunderstanding D. is used to warn the child not to do it again 我来回答: 提交
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