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"I’m a little worried about my future, " said Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate
"I’m a little worried about my future, " said Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate
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"I’m a little worried about my future, " said Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. He should be so lucky. All he had to worry about was whether to have an affair with Mrs Robinson. In the sixties, that was the sum total of post-graduation anxiety syndrome.
Hoffman’s modern counterparts are not so fortunate. The Mrs Robinsons aren’t sitting around at home any more, seducing graduates. They are out in the workplace, doing the high-powered jobs the graduates want, but cannot get. For those fresh out of university, desperate for work but unable to get it, there is a big imbalance between supply and demand. And there is no narrowing of the gap in sight.
The latest unemployment figures show that 746,000 of 18-24 year-olds are unemployed — a record rate of 18 per cent. Many of those will have graduated this summer. They are not panicking yet, but as the job rejections mount up, they are beginning to feel alarmed.
Of course, it is easy to blame the Government and, in particular, the target that Labour has long trumpeted — 50 per cent of school-leavers in higher education. That was not too smart. The Government has not only failed to meet its target — the actual figure is still closer to 40 per cent — but it has raised expectations to unrealistic levels.
Parents feel as badly let down as the young people themselves. Middle-class families see their graduate offspring on the dole (救济金) queue and wonder why they bothered paying school fees. Working-class families feel an even keener sense of disappointment. For many such families, getting a child into university was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. It represented upward social and financial mobility. It was proof that they were living in a dynamic, economically successful country. That dream does not seem so rosy now.
Graduate unemployment is not, ultimately, a political problem ready to be solved. Job-creation schemes for graduates are very low down in ministerial in-trays. If David Cameron’s Conservatives had a brilliant idea for guaranteeing every graduate a well-paid job, they would have unveiled it by now. It is a social problem, though a more deep-seated social problem than people perhaps realize. [br] With regard to job opportunities for young graduates, the author sounds
选项
A、pessimistic.
B、hopeful.
C、indifferent.
D、furious.
答案
A
解析
第二段最后两句提及年轻毕业生时(those fresh out of university),作者说他们渴望工作却找不到工作,供需之间严重失衡;第三段中作者提到今年夏天要毕业的学生时,又说他们虽然还没感到恐慌(panicking),但随着被工作拒绝的次数增加,他们会感到忧虑的(feel alarmed);由此可见作者不看好年轻毕业生的就业率,在这个问题上,他是悲观的。[B]“充满希望的”;[C]“漠不关心的”;[D]“狂怒的”。
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