单选题 The U.S. Department of Labor statistics indicate that there is an oversupply of college-trained workers and that this oversupply is increasing. Already there is an overabundance of teachers, engineers, physicists and other specialists. Yet colleges and graduate schools continue every year to turn out highly trained people to compete for jobs that aren't 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. These "temporary" jobs have a habit of becoming permanent.
On the other hand, there is a tremendous need for skilled workers of all sorts: carpenters, electricians, mechanics, and TV repairmen. These people have more work than they can handle and their annual incomes are often higher than those of college graduates. The old distinction that white-collar workers make a better living than blue-collar workers no longer holds true.
The reason for this situation is the traditional myth that a college degree is a passport to a prosperous future. Parents begin telling their children this myth before they are out of grade school. Under this pressure the kids fall in line. Whether they want to go to college or not doesn't matter. Everybody should go to college.
One result of this emphasis on a college education is that many people go to college who do not belong there. Of the sixty percent of high school graduates who enter college, half of them do not graduate with their class. Many of them drop out within the first year. Some struggle on for two or three years and then give up.

单选题 What does the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics show??
A. There is an oversupply of labor force and this oversupply is increasing.
B. Many college graduates find it difficult to get jobs for which they were trained.
C. There is a short supply of teachers, engineers and other professions.
D. There are more temporary jobs than permanent ones in U.S. companies.

单选题 What does the author mean by saying "these 'temporary' jobs have a habit of becoming permanent" ?
A. Once college graduates take a temporary job, they soon become used to it.
B. College graduates have developed the habit of taking temporary jobs.
C. Many college graduates might never find jobs for which they were trained.
D. More and more college graduates are unwilling to change their jobs.

单选题 What is implied but not stated in the passage is that in the past ______.
A. blue-collar workers made a better living than white-collar workers
B. college and graduate schools trained more skilled workers
C. there were more white-collar workers than blue-collar workers
D. there were less white-collar workers than blue-collar workers

单选题 By "many people go to college who do not belongthere," the author means that ______.
A. many people who are not fit for college education go to college
B. many people who don't have adequate financial support go to college
C. many people who go to college drop out within one or two years
D. many people who go to college find the courses are not interesting

单选题 We can conclude that the author believes ______.
A. every young man and woman should go to college
B. more young people should be trained for skilled jobs
C. people with higher education should receive higher pay
D. the government should offer more opportunities for college graduates