单选题
Organised volunteering and work experience has long been a vital companion to university degree courses. Usually it is left to
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to deduce the potential from a list of extracurricular adventures on a graduate"s resume,
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now the University of Bristol has launched an award to formalize the achievements of students who
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time to activities outside their courses. Bristol PLuS aims to boost students in an increasingly
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job market by helping them acquire work and life skills alongside
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qualifications.
"Our students are a pretty active bunch, but we found that they didn"t
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appreciate the value of what they did
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the lecture hall, "says Jeff Goodman, director of careers and employability at the university. "Employers are much more
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than they used to be. They used to look for
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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
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to the job."
Students who sign
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for the award will be expected to complete 50 hours of work experience or
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work, attend four workshops on employ-ability skills, take part in an intensive skills" related activity
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, crucially, write a summary of the skills they have gained.
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efforts will gain an Outstanding Achievement Award. Those who
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best on the sports field can take the Sporting PLuS Award which fosters employer-friendly sports accomplishments.
The experience does not have to be
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organised. "We"re not just interested in easily identifiable skills," says Goodman. "
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, one student took the lead in dealing with a difficult landlord and so
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negotiation skills. We try to make the experience relevant to individual lives."
Goodman hopes the
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will enable active students to fill in any gaps in their experience and encourage their less-active
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to take up activities outside their academic area of work.
【答案解析】[解析] 选择该空要与上文找出对应关系，对比上下文可知，“work and life skills”对应的是“activities”课外活动，那么，注意到上句有“devote time to activities outside their courses”，则与“courses”课程相对应的就是空格所填内容，即“academic”，学术的，因此选择C。