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  3. Three weeks ago, the school system in Alexandria, Va. , announced that 80% of the students who were about to graduate from T. C.

Three weeks ago, the school system in Alexandria, Va. , announced that 80% of the students who were about to graduate from T. C.

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问题     Three weeks ago, the school system in Alexandria, Va. , announced that 80% of the students who were about to graduate from T. C. Williams High School would be going on to college. That’s an impressive statistic. But when one looks at just what "going on to college" means nowadays — and what it will mean a couple of years from now we might do well to restrain our applause. In fact, it seemed to me that many of our staff endeavor to send as many warm bodies as they could on to higher education regardless of whether the students had the skills or motivation to do elementary high school work. High schools like mine, always eager for good press, can boast that they have prepared an ever greater percentage of their charges to move on to the halls of academe. And though colleges blame us in the high schools for sending them kids who are totally unprepared, they casually pocket the tuition from such students lest they have to downsize and lay off professors and administrators.
    While T. C. Williams boasts about the 80% going on to college, it makes no effort to track what happens to these kids. Nor does it ask another important question which is not how many make it through to a traditional college diploma, but how many need to? In a paper about to be released by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation: "Work and Workers for the 21st Century", it is pointed out that in 2018 as is the case today--two of three jobs in America will not require either a bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or an associate degree from a community college.
    And yet we educators and most parents- keep giving all kids the impression that without a college degree, they will be on a slippery slope to being forgotten and poor. In fact, for the majority of jobs, what will be needed even more than the subject matter we teachers think is so essential will be what are called soft skills. The report "Are They Really Ready to Work." put out by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and the Society for Human Resource Management, found that the four skills most prized by employers were a work ethic, an ability to collaborate with others, facility in oral communication and social responsibility. "Other than writing and reading English, no academic courses (including mathematics) make the top 10".
    And that’s good news for those thousands of students who graduated from high schools across America this month and are honestly wondering to themselves whether the encouragement of their teachers notwithstanding - the pursuit of a traditional college degree is the right next move toward a satisfying future.
What will the future of work be like in the paper by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation?
选项 A、It will be the same as the situation today.
B、The requirements to workers will be higher.
C、People won’t have to work that hard in future.
D、More work will need people with college degree
答案A
解析 事实细节题。由题干可知本题考查的是W．K．Kellogg Foundation的研究结果。根据定位句可知，W．K．Kellogg Foundation发表的文章指出2018年的工作形势和如今的形势相同。原文as is the case today中，as表示比较，意为“和……一样”，由as开头，句子进行倒装，the case意为情况。因此A)是本题答案。B)“对工人的要求会更高”、C)“人们不再需要那么努力地工作”并没有在原文中出现，故排除；D)“更多的工作需要人们有大学学历”和原文意思相反。原文中提到三分之二的工作既不需要本科学历也不需要专科学历，故排除。
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