The education experts worry about（）

to be honest craftsmen, skilled at our work through years of patient practice. Nowadays if we want to get a decent job, we have to have a piece of paper. If we want promotion in even the humblest job, we have to obtain a certificate or a diploma first. We may know that we would be better at the job than the man with the paper qualifications, but our experience and practical skills are regarded as relatively unimportant. "Johnson would have been manager by now if he'd taken the trouble to get a degree," his colleagues say, "he's a clever man. He could have done anything if he'd had a proper education."

I wonder if, as time goes on, we shall discover that many people, whose practical experience and ability would have been enormously useful to their employers, have been rejected on the grounds that they are insufficiently qualified. Would it not be better to allow people to become expert in the way most suited to them, rather than oblige them to follow a set course of instruction which may offer no opportunity for them to develop skills in which they would have become expert if left to themselves？

1.By the first sentence in Para. One, the writer perhaps means ____.

A、education has acquired a pleasant value

B、education is ignored by the public

C、too much attention is paid to degrees in education

D、too little attention is paid to degrees in education

2.According to the passage, if we want to get promotion nowadays we have to ____.

A、produce proof of our qualification

B、write a paper about our qualifications

C、apply to take a certificate

D、apply for a diploma course

3.From the passage we understand that his colleagues think that Johnson ____.

A、should have been given a degree

B、would have been able to get a degree

C、couldn't have done anything without a degree

D、would become manager even without a degree

4.The writer fears that without paper qualifications many people ____.

A、won't get proper education

B、will prove useless in their job

C、will be dismissed from their job

D、won't be considered for a job

5.In the writer's opinion it would be better if people ____.

A、were forced to take a diploma

B、were free to become educated in their own way

C、attended more practical courses

D、attended courses intended for experts

Passage Three

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.

What are the specific traits that will assist executives to climb the ladder of success？ Opinions vary widely. Given approximately equal qualifications and circumstances，some claim the success factor is largely a matter of luck-being in the right place at the right time. Others speak of an almost crazy devotion to work，combined with a degree of ruthlessness. One “expert” maintains that it's undoubtedly a matter of how much education your mother had.

To make it big，executives must possess four basic skills：

First，drive. Business success takes an unusual amount of energy. A successful executive-almost by definition-is a striver. He will get tense when he is not striving.

Second，people sense. Some say being able to judge people is more important than a high IQ. The skill can be instinctual(本能的)，but in most cases it is painstakingly learned.

Third，communications ability. Different executives make themselves understood in different ways. Some transmit ideas best face to face；others are masters of the telephone call；still others are persuasive writers. One way or another，they all communicate clearly.

Fourth，calm under pressure. No businessman will get very far if he chokes up.

Some people claim that besides hard work，the success also requires______.

A. equal qualifications

B. specific traits

C. much education

D. a degree of cruelty

mation have nothing to do with it. A merely well-informed man is the most useless【2】on God's earth. What we should【3】at producing is men who【4】both culture and expert knowledge in some special direction. Their expert knowledge will give them the ground to start【5】, and their culture will lead them as【6】as philosophy and as high as【7】. We have to remember that the valuable【8】development is self-development, and that it【9】takes place between the ages of sixteen and thirty. As to training, the most important part is given by mothers before the age of twelve.

In training a child to activity of thought, above all things we must【10】of what I will call "inert ideas" —that is to say, ideas that are merely【11】into the mind without being【12】, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations. In the history of educaton. the most【13】phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a craze for genius, in a【14】generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine. The reason is that they are overladen with inert ideas. Except at【15】intervals of intellectual motivation, education in the past has been radically【16】with inert ideas. That is the reason why【17】clever women, who have seen much of the world, are in middle life so much the most cultured part of the community. They have been saved from this horrible【18】of inert ideas. Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity【19】greatness has been a【20】protest against inert ideas.

(1)

A．Chips

B．Scraps

C．Fractions

D．Plates

Task 3

Directions: The following is part of a job advertisement. After reading it, you are required to complete the outline below it (No.46 to No.50). You should write your answers briefly (in no more than three words) on the Answer Sheet correspondingly.

INFORMATION SECURITY SPECIALIST

NOTE：Please directly through this website，as well as emailing your resume as an attachment to us at

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Establishes and satisfies highly challenging and complex information system security(ISS) requirements based upon the analysis of user，operational，policy，regulatory，and resource demands.Supports the development，implementation，and operation of ISS-enabling technologies, processes, and procedures into client systems and networks.Also requires an expert understanding of security policy advocated by the U.S Government including Department of Defense and other agencies，e.g.，Treasury，as well as commercial best security practices.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

ISS Policy，Procedures，and Planning，RACF，LAN，LIFE CYCLE，Microsoft NT，Network Security，Office Automation Tools.

LOCATION:

New Carrollton，Maryland or Falls Church, Virginia

CONTACT US AT:

U.S. Citizenship or U.S. Permanent Resident status required for employment.

A job advertisement

Position offered: -46-

Responsibilities：to establish and satisfy -47- requirements

Qualifications：1. -48- degree

2.required skills

Citizenship required：US Citizenship or -49-

Way of contact：by -50-

ired to complete the outline below it (No.46 to No.50). You should write your answers briefly (in no more than three words) on the Answer Sheet correspondingly.

INFORMATION SECURITY SPECIALIST

NOTE：Please directly through this website，as well as emailing your resume as an attachment to us at resumes@ictva.com

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Establishes and satisfies highly challenging and complex information system security(ISS) requirements based upon the analysis of user，operational，policy，regulatory，and resource demands.Supports the development，implementation，and operation of ISS-enabling technologies, processes, and procedures into client systems and networks.Also requires an expert understanding of security policy advocated by the U.S Government including Department of Defense and other agencies，e.g.，Treasury，as well as commercial best security practices.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

ISS Policy，Procedures，and Planning，RACF，LAN，LIFE CYCLE，Microsoft NT，Network Security，Office Automation Tools.

LOCATION:

New Carrollton，Maryland or Falls Church, Virginia

CONTACT US AT:

resumes@icta.com

U.S. Citizenship or U.S. Permanent Resident status required for employment.

A job advertisement

Position offered: -46-

Responsibilities：to establish and satisfy -47- requirements

Qualifications：1. -48- degree

2.required skills

Citizenship required：US Citizenship or -49-

Way of contact：by -50-

TED (technology, entertainment & design) is a set of conferences, held in various cities around the world every year. With various speakers – also from various parts of the globe – all the speeches are uploaded to their website, for everyone to see. TED conferences invite speakers to give presentations on a variety of topics. The different speakers are usually experts in their field and talk about new ideas and recent developments that are important to their work. The speakers are often also well-known, with people such as Microsoft giant Bill Gates and world-renowned chimpanzee expert, Jane Goodall, having given talks. There are many talks on environmentalism, for example, and on international development, aid work, and how to help poor people with all sorts of new innovations. There are a number of talks about education and education reform. and topics that are in the news are often featured, such as the recent NSA spying revelations. While the talks cover a wide variety of topics, all speakers have a strict time limit – each presentation must last no longer than 18 minutes. As with all organizations, however, TED has had its downs as well as ups. The organization has been criticized for taking intelligent, upstanding members of the scientific – and other – communities and turning them into mere entertainers. Perhaps a bigger and more significant criticism of the organization is that it is incredibly elitist. Those who attend must be very privileged with tickets for TED events costing some US$6000 (or more). However, ted.org, the organization’s website, is where the many fascinating talks become accessible to everybody who has an Internet connection. Every weekday, a new video is uploaded from a TED event, allowing people from around the world to listen to the talks for free. At only 18 minutes, even if the video is not that interesting, you know you are not going to waste too much time. Most TED talks are in English but there are talks available in other languages, too. Plus, most of the English-language talks also have the option of subtitles in various languages and, as a result, the site is excellent for practicing English and learning new vocabulary, particularly in a topic that you find interesting and enjoyable. With so many choices of subject, the videos are often much more exciting than the listening comprehension exercises used in many classes.

(1)Which is not true about TED’s mission？

A. To offer knowledge.

B. To provide a platform. for exchanging ideas.

C. To change the world.

D. To create an elitist community.

(2)Who speaks at TED？

A. Bill Gates.

B. Jane Goodall.

C. Various experts.

D. Environmentalists.

(3)Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage？

A. TED is held yearly.

B. TED is free to attend.

C. Videos of TED talks are free to access.

D. TED has been welcomed universally.

(4)What is not a criticism of TED？

A. The talks are short.

B. Experts are turned into entertainers.

C. It is attended only by the privileged.

D. The tickets for TED are too expensive.

(5)What cannot be found at ted.org？

A. Talks in English with subtitles in some other languages.

B. Talks on listening comprehension.

C. Talks on NSA spying revelations.

D. Talks on education reform.

ket. Bob Crossley, a human resources expert notices this in the job applications that come cross his desk every day. "It's amazing how. many candidates eliminate themselves, "he says.

"Resumes arrive with stains. Some candidates don't bother to spell the company's name correctly. Once I see a mistake, I eliminate the candidate," Crossley concludes. "If they cannot take care of these details, why should we trust them with a job？"

Can we pay too much attention to details？ Absolutely. Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward. "To keep from losing the forest for the trees, "says Charles Garfield, associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco," we must constantly ask ourselves how the details we're working on fit into the larger picture. If they don't, we should drop them and move to something else."

Garfield compares this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA. "The Apollo II moon launch was slightly off-course 90 percent of the time," says Garfield, "but a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact coordinates of our goal. This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary. "Knowing where we want to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake.

Too often we believe what accounts for others' success is some special secret or a lucky break. But rarely is success so mysterious. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewards follow.

According to the passage ,some job applicants were rejected ______.

A．because of their inadequate attention paid to details, such as the stains and misspelt company name

B．because of their inadequate education as shown in their poor spelling in writing a resume

C．because they failed to give a detailed description of their background in their applications

D．because they eliminated their names from the applicants list themselves

Dr. Johnson is head of the department, ______an expert in translation.

A．or

B．either

C．but

D．and