2. 职称英语
  3. The following two excerpts are about the worth of higher education as its cos

The following two excerpts are about the worth of higher education as its cos

游客2024-11-06  2
问题    The following two excerpts are about the worth of higher education as its cost is soaring and its reward is downsizing. But there has been support of the value of it.
   Write an article of NO LESS THAN 300 WORDS, in which you should:
   1.   summarize the different opinions about the worth of higher education and their justifications and then
   2.  express your opinion towards this issue, especially whether the merits brought by college education outweigh its cost.
   Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
   Write your article on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.
   Excerpt 1
                           Higher Education: Is College Worth It?
   Chen Chenggong is the first in his hometown to enter a college in Beijing.
   "I was raised to believe a college degree was a sure route to a comfortable life. But after months of searching for a job, I only receive offers with salaries lower than what factory workers earn. It’s as if I never went to college at all," he said.
   It is a dilemma echoed by other rural and small town students. Once graduation rolls around, they face more difficulties climbing up the social ladder than their urban peers. Many urban graduates, with their well-off parents’ social networking, have a better chance to secure a decent job.
   According to a 2014 report from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the unemployment rate among college graduates from urban families is about 12 percent, while for graduates from rural backgrounds it’s 30 percent.
   What is not in doubt is that the cost of university per student has risen by almost five times the rate of inflation since 1983, and graduate salaries have been flat for much of the past decade. Student debt has grown so large that it stops many young people from buying houses, starting businesses or having children.
   Excerpt 2
                             College Was, Is and Will Be Worth It
   As Mr. Chen’s story shows, many rural and small town students must question the worth of going to college. But Li Chunling, a professor of sociology at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, attributes the disadvantages of coming out of small towns and rural areas to the lack of socialization. It can be remedied in college and later in life, as students broaden their horizons, develop their own social networks and pick up social skills they once lacked.
   "Our research has shown that the rural-urban employment gap mainly exists in the first two years after graduation," she said.
   So all graduates should share a resilient spirit. One must try to do one’s best, and at the same time, one must, when confronted with partial failure, say to oneself, "That’s ok, everything will be going well eventually. "
   On the other hand, some degrees pay for themselves; others don’t. Statistics from abroad show that unsurprisingly, majors such as engineering are a good bet wherever you study them. An engineering graduate from the University of California, Berkeley can expect to be nearly $ 1.1 m better off after 20 years than someone who never went to college. Even the least lucrative engineering courses generated a 20-year return of almost $ 500,000. Once Barack Obama hinted when he said in January that "folks can make a lot more" by learning a trade "than they might with an art history degree".
   We should clearly note that not all degrees fatten the wallet, but all doubtless nourish the soul.
选项
答案    We Can’t Do Without a Higher Education
   The gap between the rural and urban university graduates looms in several aspects from the unemployment rate to chances to get a decent job and salary. With hefty tuition fees of college education and a flat salary for graduates, it is justified to question the worth of a higher education. Yet, this gap can be remedied by socialization and a resilient spirit as it will become less obvious after the first two years of graduation. Besides, statistics show that some degrees such as engineering do pay off eventually.
   As far as I am concerned, a university education is a must for students. To begin with, universities are the places where individuals are offered equal opportunities to maximize their personal value, and accordingly for them to break free from the social strata in which they are born. This is especially true for the rural students whose parents lack the social networking which may secure their sons and daughters a decent job. Without a college education, it would be harder to climb up the privileged social position. Furthermore, hefty though the tuition seems to be to complete college, in a market-oriented society, a college education is the very basic stepping stone for a white-collar job. Last but not least, a college education plays a vital role in cultivating one’s intellectual and interactive qualities. The aim of a higher education is more to mold the ingredients of intelligence such as imagination, critical thinking, creative power and intercommunicative abilities than to instill information into students. With these treasures that may apply to almost any field, even though the expertise picked from colleges may not cater to the market demand at once, students will still have a better chance of seeking jobs in other fields.
   To summarize, besides the understandably urgent need to harvest what we sow in universities, we should consider the true worth of a higher education at a higher level instead of only pandering to mundaneness.
解析    本题讨论的话题是高等教育是否值得。选段1以一名来自农村的大学毕业生为例，质疑了读大学的价值；而选段2中，权威人士指出农村背景的大学毕业生就业困难只是暂时的，要韬光养晦，眼光放长远；另一方面，并不是所有的专业都会有可观的回报率，但一定都会滋润我们的灵魂。本题的写作重点在于首先概括选段中关于高等教育是否值得的观点以及原因，其次重点论述自己关于高等教育的益处是否大于成本的看法。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3834036.html
相关试题推荐
随机试题
最新回复(0)