Organised volunteering and work experience has long been a vital companion to university degree courses. Usually it is left to【B1】______to deduce the potential from a list of extracurricular adventures on a graduate' s resume, 【B2】______ now the University of Bristol has launched an award to formalise the achievements of students who 【B3】______ time to activities outside their courses. Bristol PLuS aims to boost students in an increasingly 【B4】______ job market by helping them acquire work and life skills alongside 【B5】______ qualifications. "Our students are a pretty active bunch, but we found that they didn't 【B6】______ appreciate the value of what they did 【B7】______ the lecture hall," says Jeff Goodman, director of careers and employability at the university. "Employers are much more 【B8】______ than they used to be. They used to look for 【B9】______ and saw it as part of their job to extract the value of an applicant's skills. Now they want students to be able to explain why those skills are【B10】______to the job." Students who sign【B11】______for the award will be expected to complete 50 hours of work experience or【B12】______work, attend four workshops on employ-ability skills, take part in an intensive skills-related activity 【B13】______, crucially, write a summary of the skills they have gained.【B14】______efforts will gain an Outstanding Achievement Award. Those who【B15】______best on the sports field can take the Sporting PLuS Award which fosters employer-friendly sports accomplishments. The experience does not have to be【B16】______organised. "We 're not just interested in easily identifiable skills," says Goodman. "【B17】______, one student took the lead in dealing with a difficult landlord and so【B18】______negotiation skills. We try to make the experience relevant to individual lives." Goodman hopes the【B19】______will enable active students to fill in any gaps in their experience and encourage their less-active【B20】______to take up activities outside their academic area of work.
【答案解析】解析：考查形容词辨析。artistic“艺术的”；technical“技术的”；academic“学院的”；interactive“互相作用的，相互影响的”。alongside意为“与…一起，在…旁边”，应该与空格前“work and life skills”为并列互补关系。“work and life skills”在这里指课外的工作生活技能，空格处则应填入academic，在句中与qualification搭配，表示“学历”。故答案为C．academic。
【答案解析】解析：考查词义辨析。origin“起源”；initial“最初的，开始的”；popularity“普及，流行”；potential“潜力”。根据本段最后一句Now后面的描述得知，原先并不是这样，原先只注重应聘者的“潜力”，其实“saw it as part of their job to extract the value of an applicant’s skills”也是一个佐证。故答案为D．potential．