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A) Students with a bachelor’s degree in humanities.
B) People with an MBA degree front top universities.
C) People with formal schooling plus work experience.
D) People with special training in engineering.
27. By saying “... but the impact of a degree washes out after five years” (Line 3, Para,
3), the author means ________.
A) most MBA programs fail to provide students with a solid foundation
B) an MBA degree does not help promotion to managerial positions
C) MBA programs will not be as popular in five years’ time as they are now
D) in five people will forget about the degree the MBA graduates have got
28. According to Scheetz’s statement (Lines 4-5. Para. 4), companies prefer ________.
A) people who have a strategic mind
B) people who are talented in fine arts
C) people who are ambitious and aggressive
D) people who have received training in mechanics
29. David Birch claims that he only hires liberal-arts people because ________.
A) they are more capable of handling changing situations
B) they can stick to established ways of solving problems
C) they are thoroughly trained in a variety of specialized fields
D) they have attended special programs in management
30. Which of the following statements does the author support?
A) Specialists are more expensive to hire than generalists.
B) Formal schooling is less important than job training.
C) On-the-job training is, in the long run, less costly.
D) Generalists will outdo specialists in management.
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a
woman and a young boy sat down at the next table, I couldn’t help overhearing parts of
their conversation. At one point the woman asked: “So, how have you been?” And the
boy—who could not have been more than seven or eight years old—replied. “Frankly,
I’ve been feeling a little depressed lately.”
This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children
are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn’t find out we were
“depressed” until we were in high school.
The evidence of a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children
don’t seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and
behave more like adults than they used to.
Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different.
Childhood as it once was no longer exists, Why?
Human development is based not only on innate (天生的) biological states, but also
on patterns of access to social knowledge. Movement from one social rote to another
usually involves learning the secrets of the new status. Children have always been taught
adult secrets, but slowly and in stages: traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep
hidden from fifth graders.
In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation (揭示) machine has been installed in
98 percent of American homes. It is called television, Television passes information, and
indiscriminately (不加区分地), to all viewers alike, be they children or adults. Unable to
resist the temptation, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less
challenging, more vivid moving pictures.
Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control
over the social information to which children have access. Reading and writing involve a
complex code of symbols that must be memorized and practices. Children must read
simple books before they can read complex materials.
31. According to the author, feeling depressed is ________.
A) a sure sign of a psychological problem in a child
B) something hardly to be expected in a young child
C) an inevitable has of children’s mental development
D) a mental scale present in all humans, including children
32. Traditionally, a child is supposed to learn about the adult world ________.
A) through contact with society
B) gradually and under guidance
C) naturally and by biological instinct
D) through exposure to social information
33. The phenomenon that today’s children seem adult like is attributed by the author to
________.
A) the widespread influence of television
B) the poor arrangement of teaching content
C) the fast pace of human intellectual development
D) the constantly rising standard of living
34. Why is the author in favor of communication through print for children?