单选题
Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized training. Ideally, therefore, the choice of an
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should be made even before the choice of a curriculum in high school. Actually,
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, most people make several job choices during their working lives,
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because of economic and industrial changes and partly to improve
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position. The "one perfect job" does not exist. Young people should
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enter into a broad flexible training program that will
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them for a field of work rather than for a single
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.
Unfortunately many young people have to make career plans
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benefit of help from a competent vocational counselor or psychologist. Knowing
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about the occupational world, or themselves for that matter, they choose their lifework on a hit-or-miss
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. Some drift from job to job. Others
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to work in which they are unhappy and for which they are not fitted.
One common mistake is choosing an occupation for
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real or imagined prestige. Too many high-school students—or their parents for them—choose the professional field,
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both the relatively small proportion of workers in the professions and the extremely high educational and personal
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. The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a "White-collar" job is
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good reason for choosing it as life"s work.
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, these occupations are not always well paid. Since a large proportion of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the
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of young people should give serious
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to these fields.
Before making an occupational choice, a person should have a general idea of what he wants
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life and how hard he is willing to work to get it. Some people desire social prestige, others intellectual satisfaction. Some want security, others are willing to take
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for financial gain. Each occupational choice has its demands as well as its rewards.
【答案解析】[考点] 语义以及词类的综合考查(entirely“全部地,完全地”;mainly“主要地”:partly“部分地”;totally“全部地,完全地”)
[解析] 四个选项都是“-ly”结尾的词,“-ly”表示是副词。该题因为选项词性相同,而且也无固定搭配,所以只能利用语境解题。注意,这里可以充分利用并列结构进行解题。“partly because of economic and industrial changes”and“partly to improve their position”形成了并列结构,所以答案为C。
【答案解析】[考点] 语义以及词类的综合考查(job“工作,职业”;way“方法,道路”;means“方法,手段”;company“公司,陪伴”)
[解析] 四个选项都是形容词或短语,因为词性相同,而且也无固定搭配,所以只能利用语境解题。这里可以充分利用并列结构进行解题。“rather than(而不是)”是并列词,所以“a field of work”与“a single______”形成了并列结构,前后语义接近,所以答案为A。
【答案解析】[考点] 语义以及词类的综合考查(a不定冠词;any“一些,任何的”;no“没有”;the定冠词)
[解析] 本题是对冠词和代词的考查。这里要明确的是no=not a/any。根据该段的首句“one common mistake”可知本段论述的都是错误的做法,因而四个选项中“no good reason不是好的/合理的原因”比较符合语境,所以答案为C。
【答案解析】[考点] 语义以及词类的综合考查(turns“转,转弯”;parts“部分,零件”;choices“选择”;risks“风险,危险”)
[解析] 四个选项都是动词,首先从搭配来看,take turns(轮流),take part(参加,参与);take risk(冒险),C选项不与take连用,可以排除选项C;再从语境来看,这里有并列结构“some...,others...”,可知前后分句在语义上一般是相反或相对的而非相近的,由“Some want security”(有些人寻求安全)可知,“others are willing to take risks...”(其他人愿意冒险),所以答案为D。