A.out B.go for C.but for A. Not for our needs, mind you,【T1】______ our demands B. If you【T2】______ a master's degree C. you can successfully drop【T3】______ in grade school Get a high school diploma, at least. Without that, you are occupationally dead, unless your name happens to be George Bernard Shaw or Thomas Alva Edison and【T4】______ . Get a college degree, if possible. With a BA, you are on the launching pad. But now you have to start to put on the brakes.【T5】______ , make sure it is an MBA, and only from a first-rate university. Beyond this, the famous law of diminishing returns begins to take effect. Do you know, for instance, that long-haul truck drivers earn more a year than full professors? Yes, the average 1977 salary for those truckers was $24,000, while the full professors managed to average just $ 23,930. A Ph. D. is the highest degree you can get, but except in a few specialized fields such as physics or chemistry, where the degree can quickly be turned to industrial or commercial purposes, you are facing a dim future. There are more Ph. D. s unemployed or underemployed in this country than in any other part of the world by far. If you become a doctor of philosophy in English or history or anthropology or political science or languages or—worst of all—in philosophy, you run the risk of becoming over-educated for our national demands.【T6】______.
单选题 【T1】
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:本题主要考查固定用法。“not…but…’为固定用法,是“不是……而是……”的意思,前面为not for,所以空格处填入but for符合题意。所以,答案是but for。
单选题 【T2】
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:分析句子可知,此句缺少谓语动词,go for“追求”符合题意。所以,答案是go for。
单选题 【T3】
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:本题主要考查固定搭配。“drop out”为固定搭配,是“辍学”的意思,符合题意。所以,答案是out。
单选题 【T4】
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:根据语境可知,空格所在句的意思为:否则你会没有工作,除非你碰巧是大名鼎鼎的萧伯纳或是爱迪生,可以从中小学辍学并取得成功。所以,C项符合题意。
单选题 【T5】
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:空格前一句的意思为:不过此时,你就应该“刹车”了。空格后一句的意思为:否则,再往后,著名的报酬递减率就会起作用了。故空格所在句的意思应为:如果你想申请硕士学位,那最好是一流大学的MBA。所以,B项符合题意。
单选题 【T6】
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:根据语境可知,空格所在句的意思为:提醒你,不是超出了我们自身的需要,而是超出了我们的需求。所以,A项符合题意。