18届英语考研 1（2 / 2）

经济条件差

23.We infer from Paragraph 5 that high school graduates_____ .

我们可以从第五段推知，高中毕业生_____。

A.used to have big financial s

曾经有巨大的经济困扰

B.used to have more job opportunities

曾经有更多的工作机会

C.are relut to work in manufacturing

不愿意进入制造业工作

D.are entitled to more educational privileges

被赋予了更多的教育特权

24.The headlong push into bachelor’s degrees for all _____.

慌不择路地将所有人推进学士学位_____。

A.helps create a lot of middle-skill jobs

有助于创造出大量中等技能工作

B.may narrow the gap in w-css jobs

可能会缩小工人阶级工作的缺口

C.is expected to yield a better-trained workforce

有望生成更加训练有素的劳动力

D.indicates the overvaluing of higher education

表明对高等教育重要性的高估

25.The author’s attitude toward Koziatek’s school be described as_____ .

作者对 Koziatek 的学校的态度可描述为_____。

A.supportive 支持的

B.tolerant 容忍的

C.disappointed 失望的

D.cautious 谨慎的

Se III Transtion

A fifth grader gets a homework assigo select his future career path from a list of occupations. He ticks “astronaut” but quickly adds “stist” to the list as it as well. The boy is vihat if he reads enough, he explore as many career paths as he likes. And so he reads – everything from encyclopedias to sce fi novels. He reads so passiohat his parents have to institute a “no reading policy” at the diable.

一个五年级学生拿到一份家庭作业，要求从一份职业列表中选择将来的职业道路他勾选了“宇航员”,但很快在表上添加了“科学家”，并将它也选上。这个男孩子相信，只要他读得够多，那么他想探索 多少职业道路都可以。于是，他就这样读书--从百科全书到科幻，什么都看。他如饥似渴地读书，以至于他的父母不得不立下一条吃饭时“不许看书的规矩”。

That boy was Bill Gates, and he hasn’t stopped readi – not even after being one of the most successful people on the p. Nowadays, his reading material has ged from sce fi and reference books: retly, he revealed that he reads at least 50 nonfi books a year. Gates chooses nonfi titles because they expin how the world works. “Each book opens up new avenues of knowledge to explore”, Gates says.

那个男孩就是比尔·盖茨(Bill Gates)而且，他至今依然没有停止--即便他已经成为这颗星球上最成功的人士之一。如今，他的材料已经不再是科幻和参考书:最近，他透露说自己一年至少看 50本非虚构作品。盖茨之所以选择非虚构作品，是因为它们解释世界是如何运行的。盖茨说:“每本书都开辟出新的知识途径。”