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What does layabouts mean in the following sentence "That sounds like a good thing, certainly compared with the common public ima
What does layabouts mean in the following sentence "That sounds like a good thing, certainly compared with the common public ima
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2020-02-11
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What does layabouts mean in the following sentence "That sounds like a good thing, certainly compared with the common public image of undergraduates as a bunch of pampered layabouts" ?
As Dr. Golle reports in Psychological Science this week, she found that those who have been to university do indeed seem to leave with broader and more inquiring minds than those who have spent their post-school years in vocational training for work. However, it was not the case that university broadened minds. Rather, work seemed to narrow them.
Dr. Golle came to this conclusion after she and a team of colleagues studied the early careers of 2, 095 German youngsters. During the period under investigation, Germany had three tracks in its schools: a low one for pupils who would most probably leave school early and enter vocational training; a high one for those almost certain to enter university; and an intermediate one, from which there was a choice between the academic and vocational routes.
The team used two standardized tests to assess their volunteers. One was of personality traits (openness, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness and extroversion). The other was of attitudes (realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising and conventional).
Of the original group, 382 were on the intermediate track, and it was on these that the researchers focused. University beckoned for 212 of them. The remaining 170 opted for vocational training and a job. When it came to the second round of tests, Dr Golle found that the personalities of those who had gone to university had changed not a statistically detectable jot. Those who had undergone vocational training and then got jobs were not that much changed in personality, either — except in one crucial respect. They had become more conscientious. That sounds like a good thing, certainly compared with the common public image of undergraduates as a bunch of pampered layabouts.
But changes in attitude that the researchers recorded were more worrying. In the university group, again, none were detectable. But those who had chosen the vocational route showed marked drops in interest in tasks that are investigative and enterprising in nature. And that might restrict their choice of careers. Some investigative and enterprising jobs, such as scientific research, are, indeed off limits to the degreeless. But many, particularly in Germany, with its tradition of vocational training, are not. The researchers mention, for example, computer programmers, finance-sector workers, estate agents and entrepreneurs as careers requiring these attributes. If Dr. Golle is correct, and changes in attitude brought about by the very training Germany prides itself on are narrowing people’s choices, that is indeed a matter of concern.
选项
A、Somebody regarded as proud.
B、Somebody regarded as lazy.
C、Somebody regarded as sensitive.
D、Somebody regarded as diligent.
答案
B
解析
特定信息的找寻和判断。对于“layabouts”这个单词,很多人会感到陌生,所以感觉本题有一定的难度,无从下手。其实,在听力中遇到生词的情况比比皆是。针对这种情况,应该根据上下文语境来推测其大意。“That sounds like a good thing,certainly compared with the common public image of undergraduates as a bunch of pampered layabouts”,意思是“这听起来是一件好事,大学生的普遍公众形象就是一群养尊处优的闲人,与之相比当然不错”,通过“pampered”就可推测出B选项内容与原文相符,故B选项是正确答案。
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