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The US Department of Labor statistics show that there is an oversupply of college trained
workers and that this oversupply is increasing. Already there have been more than enough
teachers, engineers, physicists, aerospace experts, and other specialists. Yet colleges and
graduate schools continue every year to turn out highly trained people to compete for jobs
that aren't there. The result is that graduates cannot enter the professions for which they were
trained and must take temporary jobs which do not require a college degree.
On the other hand, there is a great need for skilled workers of all sorts: carpenters,
electricians, mechanics, plumbers, TV repairmen. These people have more work than they
can deal with, and their annual incomes are often higher than those of college graduates. The
old gap that white-collar workers make a better living than blue collar workers no longer holds
true. The law of supply and demand now favors the skilled workmen.
The reason for this situation is the traditional myth that college degree is a passport to a
prosperous future. A large part of American society matches success in life equally with a
college degree. Parents begin indoctrinating (灌输) their children with this myth before they
are out of grade school. High school teachers play their part by acting as if high school
education were a preparation for college rather than for life. Under this pressure the kids fall
in line. Whether they want to go to college or not doesn't matter. Everybody should go to
college, so of course they must go. And every year college enrollments go up and up, and
more and more graduates are overeducated for the kinds of jobs available to them.
One result of this emphasis on a college education is that many people go to college who
do not belong there. Of the sixty percent of high school graduates who enter college, half of
them do not graduate with their class. Many of them drop out within the first year. Some
struggle on for two or three years and then give up.
1. It's implied but not stated in the passage that ______.
A. many other countries are facing the same problem
B. fewer students will prefer to go to college in the future
C. the law of supply and demand has a strong effect on American higher education
D. white-collar workers in the US used to make more money than blue-collar workers
2. Which of the following is NOT a reason why the number of college students goes up every year?
A. Many parents want their children to go to college.
B. Every young man and woman wants to go to college.
C. High school teachers urge their students to go to college.
D. Many people believe that the only way to success is a college education.
3. By saying that "many people go to college who do not belong there", the author means that______.
A. many people who do not have enough money go to college
B. many people who go to college have their hopes destroyed
C. many people who go to college drop out within the first year
D. many people who are not fit for college education go to college
4. We can infer from the passage that the author believes that ______.
A. college education is a bad thing
B. every young man and woman should go to college
C. people with a college education should receive higher pay
D. fewer people should go to college while more should be trained for skilled jobs
