【英语】英语阅读理解(教育文化)题20套(带答案)含解析.pdf

【英语】英语阅读理解 ( 教育文化 ) 题 20 套 ( 带答案 ) 含解析 一、高中英语阅读理解教育文化类 1．阅读理解 The US Department of Labour statistics (统计 ) show that there is an oversupply of college- trained workers and that this oversupply is increasing. Already there have been more than enough teachers, engineers, physicists, aerospace experts, and other specialists. Yet colleges and graduate schools continue every year to turn out highly trained people to compete for jobs that arent there. The result is that graduates cannot enter the professions for which they were trained and must take temporary jobs which do not require a college degree. On the other hand, there is a great need for skilled workers of all sorts: carpenters, electricians, mechanics, plumbers, and TV repairmen. These people have more work than they can deal with, and their annual incomes are often higher than those of college graduates. The old gap that white-collar workers make a better living than blue-collar workers no longer holds true. The law of supply and demand now favours the skilled workmen. The reason for this situation is the traditional myth that college degree is a passport to a prosperous future. A large part of American society matches success in life equally with a college degree. Parents begin indoctrinating( 灌输 ) their children with this myth before they are out of grade school. High school teachers play their part by acting as if high school education were a preparation for college rather than for life. Under this pressure the kids fall into line. Whether they want to go to college or not doesnt matter. Everybody should go to college, so of course they must go. And every year college enrollments (入学 ) go up and up, and more and more graduates are overeducated for the kinds of jobs available to them. One result of this emphasis on a colleg