My oldest child, Emma, just returned to campus after a long holiday break to finish up her last period of ______. These days, friends and family have begun _____ me with one question: What is she going to do after _____?
The job market is, after all, awfully ______. Just this month the Federal Reserve Bank _____ a study showing that “recent graduates are ______ working in low-paid jobs or working part-time.” The ______ spot, according to the study, is for students who majored(主修) in STEM— science, technology, engineering and ______— areas in which recent graduates “have______ to do relatively well”.
But Emma is a student of the humanities(人文) at a small college. She’s an American Studies major with a（an） ______ on the politics and culture of food. For quite a while, I think her field of study is so fashionable right now that I’m not the least bit ______ she will find a good job. Yet the more I’ve thought about it, the more I’ve decided to be honest. “I’m not sure what Emma is going to do,” I now say. “But she’s gotten a great education and has really found her ______. — and I know those things will serve her well over the _____ of her life.”
Nowadays, more and more universities and colleges are being ______ by the salaries of their recent graduates. In this climate, ______ your kid to study the humanities, seems, at best, unwise or, at worst, unconcerned with ______ a living. But a college is not a vocational(职业) school. And promoting STEM subjects should not be society’s only answer to helping the next generation grow in a competitive world.
From the beginning, we never urged Emma to ______ a college or a major with an eye on its expected return on money, ______ more and more families are doing. To Emma, what really ______ will be something that we may not be able to measure for quite a long time: Emma’s ______ to the world and how happy she is in it.
| 小题1: | | A．work | B．college | C．training | D．project |
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| 小题2: | | A．filling | B．covering | C．flooding | D．meeting |
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| 小题3: | | A．class | B．school | C．lunch | D．graduation |
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| 小题4: | | A．tough | B．fair | C．exciting | D．mild |
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| 小题5: | | A．wrote | B．published | C．came out | D．printed |
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| 小题6: | | A．surprisingly | B．doubtfully | C．jokingly | D．increasingly |
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| 小题7: | | A．dark | B．useful | C．bright | D．weak |
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| 小题8: | | A．mathematics | B．literature | C．philosophy | D．humanities |
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| 小题9: | | A．intended | B．tended | C．decided | D．pretended |
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| 小题10: | | A．interest | B．attitude | C．focus | D．point |
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| 小题11: | | A．worried | B．astonished | C．pleased | D．touched |
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| 小题12: | | A．skill | B．potential | C．wish | D．interest |
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| 小题13: | | A．program | B．chance | C．course | D．way |
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| 小题14: | | A．decided | B．measured | C．depended | D．attracted |
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| 小题15: | | A．discouraging | B．forcing | C．reminded | D．encouraging |
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| 小题16: | | A．earning | B．raising | C．providing | D．achieving |
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| 小题17: | | A．search | B．consider | C．get | D．pick |
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| 小题18: | | A．while | B．though | C．as | D．when |
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| 小题19: | | A．works | B．matters | C．attaches | D．fixes |
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| 小题20: | | A．contribution | B．enthusiasm | C．desperation | D．creativity |
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