We've been told that young people have to go to college because our economy can't absorb an
army of untrained eighteen- year - olds. But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no
longer absorb an army of trained twenty - two - year - olds, either.
Some adventuresome educators and campus watchers have openly begun to suggest that
college may not be the best, the proper, the only place for every young person after the comple-
tion of high school. We may have been looking at all those surveys and statistics upside down, it
seems, and through the rosy glow of our own remembered college experiences. Perhaps college
doesn't make people intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, or quick to learn things - maybe it's
just the other way around, and intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, quick - learning people are
merely the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place. And perhaps all those suc-
cessful college graduates would have been successful whether they had gone to college or not.
This is heresy(异端邪说) to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if a little
schooling is good, more has to be much better. But contrary evidence is beginning to mount up.
25. According to the passage, the author believes that __
A) people used to question the value of college education
B) people used to have full confidence in higher education
C) all high school graduates went to college
D) very few high school graduates chose to go to college
26. In the 2nd paragraph, "those who don't fit the pattern" refers to
A) high school graduates who aren't suitable for college education
B) college graduates who are selling shoes and driving taxis
C) college students who aren't any better for their higher education
D) high school graduates who failed to be admitted to college
27. The drop- out rate of college students seems to go up because
A) young people are disappointed with the conventional way of teaching at college
B) many young people are required to join the army
C) young people have little motivation in pursuing a higher education
D) young people don't like the intense competition for admission to graduate school
28. According to the passage the problems of college education partly arise from the fact that
A) society cannot provide enough jobs for properly trained college graduates
B) high school graduates do not fit the pattern of college education
C) too many students have to earn their own living
D) college administrators encourage students to drop out
29. In this passage the author argues that
A) more and more evidence shows college education may not be the best thing for high
school graduates
B) college education is not enough if one wants to be successful
C) college education benefits only the intelligent, ambitious, and quick - learning people
D) intelligent people may learn quicker if they don't go to college
30. The "surveys and statistics" mentioned in the last paragraph might have shown that
A) college- educated people are more successful than non - college - educated people
B) college education was not the first choice of intelligent people
C) the less schooling a person has the better it is for him
D) most people have sweet memories of college life
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:
Ours has become a society of employees. A hundred years or so ago only one out of every
five Americans at work was employed, i. e., worked for somebody else. Today only one out of
five is not employed but working for himself. And when fifty years ago "being employed" meant
working as a factory labourer or as a farmhand, the employee of today is increasingly a middle-
class person with a substantial formal education, holding a professional or management job re-
quiring intellectual and technical skills. Indeed, two things have characteried American society
during these last fifty years: middle - class and upper - class employees have been the fastest-
growing groups in our working population- growing so fast that the industrial worker, that old-
est child of the Industrial Revolution, has been losing in numerical importance despite the ex-
pans/on of industrial production.
Yet you will fine little if anything written on what it is to be an employee. You can find a
great deal of very dubious advice on how to get a job or ho
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