If you know exactly what you want, the best way to get a job is to get specialized training. A recent report shows that companies like graduates in such fields as business and health care who can go to work immediately with very little on-the-job training. That's especially true of booming fields that are challenging for workers. At Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, for example, bachelor's degree graduates get an average of four or five job offers with salaries ranging from the high to low and plenty of chances for rapid advancement. Large companies especially like a background of formal education coupled with work experience. But in the long run, too much specialization does not pay off. Business, which has been flooded with MBAs, no longer considers the degree an automatic stamp of approval. The MBA may open doors and command a higher salary initially, but the impact of a degree washes out after five years. As further evidence of the erosion of corporate faith in specialized degrees, Michigan State's Scheetz cites a pattern in corporate hiring practices. Although companies tend to take on specialists as new hires, they often seek out generalists for middle and upper-level management. This sounds like a formal statement that you approve of the liberal-arts (文科) graduate. Time and again labor-market analysts mention a need for talents that liberal-arts majors are assumed to have: writing and communication skills, organizational skills, open-mindedness and adaptability, and the ability to analyze and solve problems. David Birch, manager of the Boston Red Sox, says that he does not hire anybody with an MBA or an engineering degree. “I hire only liberal-arts people because they have a less-than-canned way of doing things,” says Birch. For a liberal – arts degree, students focus on some basic courses that include literature history, mathematics, economics, science, human behavior and a computer course or two. With these useful and important courses, you can feel free to specialize, “A liberal-arts degree coupled with an MBA or some other technical training is a very good combination in the marketplace,” says Scheetz. 1.The job market is in great need of people with _________. A.special training in special fields B.a bachelor's degree in education C.formal schooling and work experience D.an MBA degree from top universities 2.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 means __________. A.an MBA degree does not help in future promotion B.MBA programs will not be as popular as they are now C.people will not forget the degree the MBA graduates have got D.most MBA programs fail to provide students with a foundation 3.David Birch says that he only hires liberal – arts people because ________. A.they will follow others' ways of solving problems B.they can do better in bundling changing situations C.they are well trained in a variety of specialized fields D.they have attended special programs in management 4.The author supports the idea that ________. A.on – the – job training is less costly in the long run B.formal schooling is less important than job training C.specialists are more expensive to hire than generalists D.generalists will do better than specialists in management
If you know exactly what you want, the best way to get a job is to get specialized training. A recent report shows that companies like graduates in such fields as business and health care who can go to work immediately with very little on-the-job training.
That's especially true of booming fields that are challenging for workers. At Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, for example, bachelor's degree graduates get an average of four or five job offers with salaries ranging from the high to low and plenty of chances for rapid advancement. Large companies especially like a background of formal education coupled with work experience. But in the long run, too much specialization does not pay off. Business, which has been flooded with MBAs, no longer considers the degree an automatic stamp of approval. The MBA may open doors and command a higher salary initially, but the impact of a degree washes out after five years.
As further evidence of the erosion of corporate faith in specialized degrees, Michigan State's Scheetz cites a pattern in corporate hiring practices. Although companies tend to take on specialists as new hires, they often seek out generalists for middle and upper-level management. This sounds like a formal statement that you approve of the liberal-arts (文科) graduate. Time and again labor-market analysts mention a need for talents that liberal-arts majors are assumed to have: writing and communication skills, organizational skills, open-mindedness and adaptability, and the ability to analyze and solve problems. David Birch, manager of the Boston Red Sox, says that he does not hire anybody with an MBA or an engineering degree. “I hire only liberal-arts people because they have a less-than-canned way of doing things,” says Birch.
For a liberal – arts degree, students focus on some basic courses that include literature history, mathematics, economics, science, human behavior and a computer course or two. With these useful and important courses, you can feel free to specialize, “A liberal-arts degree coupled with an MBA or some other technical training is a very good combination in the marketplace,” says Scheetz.
1.The job market is in great need of people with _________.
A.special training in special fields B.a bachelor's degree in education
C.formal schooling and work experience D.an MBA degree from top universities
2.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 means __________.
A.an MBA degree does not help in future promotion
B.MBA programs will not be as popular as they are now
C.people will not forget the degree the MBA graduates have got
D.most MBA programs fail to provide students with a foundation
3.David Birch says that he only hires liberal – arts people because ________.
A.they will follow others' ways of solving problems
B.they can do better in bundling changing situations
C.they are well trained in a variety of specialized fields
D.they have attended special programs in management
4.The author supports the idea that ________.
A.on – the – job training is less costly in the long run
B.formal schooling is less important than job training
C.specialists are more expensive to hire than generalists
D.generalists will do better than specialists in management
题目解答
答案
答案0:正确
1-4 CABD
解析
考查要点:
本文主要探讨专业学位与通才教育在职场中的价值对比,指出过度专业化可能带来的职业瓶颈,强调通才教育(文科背景)在长期职业发展中的优势。题目考查学生对文章主旨、细节及隐含含义的理解能力。
解题核心思路:
- 定位关键句:通过问题关键词(如“great need”“underlined sentence”“David Birch”)快速定位原文段落。
- 区分表面信息与深层含义:如第2题需理解“the impact of a degree washes out after five years”的隐含意义(MBA的长期价值有限)。
- 归纳作者观点:第4题需结合全文总结作者对“通才优于专才”的支持态度。
第1题
关键句:第一段首句指出“公司需要能立即上岗的毕业生”,后文提到“大型公司偏爱正规教育+工作经验的组合”。
选项分析:
- C选项“formal schooling and work experience”直接对应文中描述,正确。
- 其他选项(如A、D)仅涉及单一因素,未体现“组合”。
第2题
关键句:第二段“the impact of a degree washes out after five years”意为“MBA的长期价值会随时间消退”。
选项分析:
- A选项“MBA学位无助于未来晋升”最接近原意,因“impact washes out”暗示其对长期职业发展影响有限。
- B、C、D均偏离原文语境。
第3题
关键句:David Birch认为文科生“有非程式化的解决问题方式”,即更灵活适应变化。
选项分析:
- B选项“在快速变化的环境中表现更好”符合文意。
- A、C、D均与“通才优势”无关。
第4题
关键句:最后一段总结“文科+技术培训是良好组合”,且前文多次强调通才在管理岗位的优势。
选项分析:
- D选项“通才比专才更擅长管理”直接对应作者观点。
- 其余选项未体现文章核心对比。