填空题The following article, taken from Management Now magazine,
is about young people's attitudes to work. Give yourself about twelve minutes to
do this reading test. ·Look at the sentences
below and read the comments by five managers on the attitudes of young workers
to their jobs. ·Match each statement (1-7) to one of the
extracts (A, B, C, D or E). ·You will need to use some of the
letters more than once. A
I find that the priorities of young employees are very different to my
generation and previous generations. Leisure time is now much more organised
than it was 20 years ago. When my parents had a break from work they used to do
very little other than just relax. Nowadays, people want to plan an activity
holiday or an action-packed weekend-to go diving or climbing or whitewater
rafting. So necessarily they spend more time thinking about and planning these
leisure events. This naturally has a knock-on effect on their work-they think
less about work and more about leisure time. B Young workers certainly feel less commitment
to their employers than in the past. But in many ways employers have themselves
to blame for this. The demands on companies to be more competitive means that
they hire people and then lay them off pretty much as they please. They need
this flexibility. In other words, they don't show much loyalty to their own
staff. What we are seeing now is a reaction to this. Employees have much less
loyalty to their employers these days. If you ask a young person how many jobs
he expects to have in his life, he will generally say about five to
ten. C I think that the
work-life balance that young people have found is much healthier than it was in
the past. They don't just live for work-they think about what they are working
for. At the same time employers have moved to take account of this by offering
more flexibility in working hours, better maternity or paternity leave
conditions so that young parents can have more time with their children, and so
on. It's a natural evolution. Just because young people have more commitment to
getting their home life right, it doesn't necessarily follow that they are less
committed to their jobs. D I
worry that standards in our schools and universities have dropped quite
dramatically and that people entering the workforce are very poorly equipped to
deal with the demands of working life. What is more worrying is that the
graduates themselves don't realise this. They think they have all the necessary
qualifications and knowledge to be successful at work, when in fact they are
lacking. So when they are faced with the prospect of learning more on the job
and serving their time to gain this necessary experience, they become
frustrated. The fact is that many of them have an overinflated opinion of their
own worth to the company, and they need to be made aware of this. E The attitudes of young workers are
part of the change in values that we see around us generally. The most
significant of these values are: first, a fear of being poor. There are so many
images of material wealth around and young people want a part of it. Second, the
belief that respect has to be earned-it cannot just be expected by elders or
seniors at work. Thirdly, a belief in expressing yourself rather than
controlling yourself, which perhaps earlier generations thought was a virtue. So
we, the older generation, must accept that these are the values of today and
adapt to them in order to get the best from our young workforce.
The education system does not prepare young people for working life.
D
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It is the older generation who must accept that attitudes have changed. ______
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Young people's free time is very important to them. ______
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Young workers are just as dedicated to their jobs as in the past. ______
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Young people are very concerned about their earning power. ______
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Employers cannot assume their employees will stay with them for a long time. ______
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Young people do not have the patience to train and learn at work. ______
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It suits companies too, if employees come and go. ______