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Now that members of Generation Z are graduating college this spring-the most commonly-accepted definition says this generation was born after 1995, give or take a year—the attention has been rising steadily in recent weeks. Gen Zs are about to hit the streets looking for work in a labor market that's tighter than it's been in decades. And employers are planning on hiring about 17 percent more new graduates for jobs in the U.S. this year than last, according to a survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Everybody wants to know how the people who will soon inhabit those empty office cubicles will differ from those who came before them. If 'entitled' is the most common adjective, fairly or not, applied to millennials (those born between 1981 and 1995), the catchwords for Generation Z are practical and cautious. According to the career counselors and experts who study them, Generation Zs are clear-eyed, economic pragmatists. Despite graduating into the best economy in the past 50 years, Gen Zs know what an economic train wreck looks like. They were impressionable kids during the crash of 2008, when many of their parents lost their jobs or their life savings or both. They aren't interested in taking any chances. The booming economy seems to have done little to assuage this underlying generational sense of anxious urgency, especially for those who have college debt. College loan balances in the U. S. now stand at a record $1.5 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve. One survey from Accenture found that 88 percent of graduating seniors this year chose their major with a job in mind. In a 2019 survey of University of Georgia students, meanwhile, the career office found the most desirable trait in a future employer was the ability to offer secure employment (followed by professional development and training, and then inspiring purpose). Job security or stability was the second most important career goal (work-life balance was number one), followed by a sense of being dedicated to a cause or to feel good about serving the greater good. That's a big change from the previous generation. 'Millennials wanted more flexibility in their lives,' notes Tanya Michelsem, Associate Director of YouthSight, a UK-based brand manager that conducts regular 60-day surveys of British youth, in findings that might just as well apply to American youth. 'Generation Zs are looking for more certainty and stability, because of the rise of the gig economy. They have trouble seeing a financial future and they are quite risk averse.'
单选题
Generation Zs graduating college this spring ______.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】 事实细节题。根据题干中的关键词graduating college this spring可定位至原文第一段。该段第一句提到，对于Z一代最普遍接受的定义是，Z一代是指出生于1995年左右的孩子，由于他们今年春天即将大学毕业，近几周来，人们对他们的关注也越来越多。故答案为D(备受公众关注)。 A项(因能力而受到认可)、B项(喜欢办公室的工作)和C项(对就业市场乐观)原文均未提及，故排除。 [参考译文] 对于Z一代最普遍接受的定义是，Z一代是指出生于1995年左右的孩子，由于他们今年春天即将大学毕业，近几周来，人们对他们的关注也越来越多。Z一代即将步入社会寻找工作，而如今的就业形势比过去几十年的更加严峻。美国大学和雇主协会进行的一项调查显示，美国雇主今年计划招聘的应届毕业生人数比去年增长约17%。每个人都想知道，这些即将入驻空办公室的新员工与之前的员工有何不同。 不论公平与否，如果说“要求特权”是描述生于1981年至1995年之间的千禧一代最常用的词，那么形容Z-代的流行语就是“务实”和“谨慎”。根据研究Z一代的职业顾问和专家的说法，Z一代是头脑清晰的经济实用主义者。尽管毕业时恰逢50年来经济发展最为迅速的时期，但他们依然知道经济不景气是什么样子的。2008年经济危机爆发的时候，Z一代还是处于敏感时期的儿童，当时许多人的父母要么失去了工作，要么失去了毕生的积蓄，或者两者皆空。他们对冒险并不感兴趣。蓬勃发展的经济似乎并没有办法缓解Z一代潜在的焦虑压迫感，对于那些背负大学债务的人来说更是如此。美联储的数据显示，美国大学贷款总额目前已经创下1.5万亿美元的纪录。 埃森哲公司的一项调查发现，今年88%的应届毕业生在选择他们的专业时就已经考虑到就业了。与此同时，2019年佐治亚大学就业办对学生的一项调查显示，未来雇主最受期待的特质是提供稳定就业的能力(紧随其后的是职业发展和培训，然后是目标鼓励)。工作安全或稳定是第二重要的职业目标(工作与生活的平衡是第一位)，其次是对工作的奉献精神或造福社会的良好感觉。 这与上一代相比有很大的变化。Tanya Michelsem是英国调研公司青年视角的副总监兼品牌经理，他对英国青年进行为期60天的例行调查，并在调查结果中指出，“千禧一代希望生活中有更多的自由灵活性。”这一发现可能也适用于美国青年。“由于零工经济的崛起，Z一代正在寻求更多的确定性和稳定性。他们看不清未来的经济前景，并且非常厌恶风险。”