Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized training. Ideally, therefore, the choice of an __16__ should be made even before choice of a curriculum（课程） in high school. Actually, __17__, most people make several job choices during their working lives, __18__ because of economic and industrial changes and partly to improve __19__ position. The "one perfect job" does not exist. Young people should __20__ enter into a broad flexible training program that will __21__ them for a field of work rather than for a single __22__ .
Unfortunately many young people have to make career plans __23__ benefit of help from a competent vocational counselor or psychologist. Knowing __24__ about the occupational world, or themselves for that matter, they choose their lifework on a hit-or-miss __25__. Some drift from job to job. Others __26__ to work in which they are unhappy and for which they are not fitted.
One common mistake is choosing an occupation for __27__ real or imagined prestige (声望). Too many high-school students - or their parents for them - choose the professional field, __28__ both the relatively small percentage of workers in the professions and the extremely high educational and personal __29__. The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a white-collar job is __30__ good reason for choosing it as life's work. __31__, these occupations are not always well paid. Since a large percentage of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the __32__ of young people should give serious __33__ to these fields.
Before making an occupational choice, a person should have a general idea of what he wants __34__ 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 __35__ for financial gain. Each occupational choice has its demands as well as its rewards.
| 小题1: | | A．identification | B．accommodation | C．occupation | D．entertainment |
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| 小题2: | | A．thereby | B．however | C．though | D．therefore |
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| 小题3: | | A．thoroughly | B．mainly | C．entirely | D．partly |
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| 小题5: | | A．therefore | B．since | C．furthermore | D．forever |
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| 小题6: | | A．fit | B．make | C．take | D．leave |
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| 小题7: | | A．means | B．job | C．way | D．company |
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| 小题8: | | A．to | B．for | C．with | D．without |
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| 小题9: | | A．little | B．few | C．much | D．a lot |
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| 小题10: | | A．chance | B．purpose | C．basis | D．opportunity |
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| 小题11: | | A．apply | B．appeal | C．turn | D．stick |
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| 小题13: | | A．concerning | B．following | C．ignoring | D．considering |
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| 小题14: | | A．preferences | B．requirements | C．tendencies | D．ambitions |
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| 小题16: | | A．Therefore | B．Moreover | C．Nevertheless | D．However |
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| 小题17: | | A．majority | B．mass | C．minority | D．number |
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| 小题18: | | A．proposal | B．suggestion | C．approval | D．consideration |
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| 小题19: | | A．towards | B．out of | C．against | D．without |
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| 小题20: | | A．turns | B．parts | C．risks | D．choices |
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