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  3. "I’m a little worried about my future, " said Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. He should be so lucky. All he had to worry about w

"I’m a little worried about my future, " said Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. He should be so lucky. All he had to worry about w

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问题     "I’m a little worried about my future, " said Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. He should be so lucky. All he had to worry about was whether to have an affair with Mrs Robinson. In the sixties, that was the sum total of post-graduation anxiety syndrome.
    Hoffman’s modern counterparts are not so fortunate. The Mrs Robinsons aren’t sitting around at home any more, seducing graduates. They are out in the workplace, doing the high-powered jobs the graduates want, but cannot get. For those fresh out of university, desperate for work but unable to get it, there is a big imbalance between supply and demand. And there is no narrowing of the gap in sight.
    The latest unemployment figures show that 746,000 of 18-24 year-olds are unemployed — a record rate of 18 per cent. Many of those will have graduated this summer. They are not panicking yet, but as the job rejections mount up, they are beginning to feel alarmed.
    Of course, it is easy to blame the Government and, in particular, the target that Labour has long trumpeted — 50 per cent of school-leavers in higher education. That was not too smart. The Government has not only failed to meet its target — the actual figure is still closer to 40 per cent — but it has raised expectations to unrealistic levels.
    Parents feel as badly let down as the young people themselves. Middle-class families see their graduate offspring on the dole (救济金) queue and wonder why they bothered paying school fees. Working-class families feel an even keener sense of disappointment. For many such families, getting a child into university was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. It represented upward social and financial mobility. It was proof that they were living in a dynamic, economically successful country. That dream does not seem so rosy now.
    Graduate unemployment is not, ultimately, a political problem ready to be solved. Job-creation schemes for graduates are very low down in ministerial in-trays. If David Cameron’s Conservatives had a brilliant idea for guaranteeing every graduate a well-paid job, they would have unveiled it by now. It is a social problem, though a more deep-seated social problem than people perhaps realize.
The author begins with an episode from The Graduate in order to
选项 A、support the fact that more women are working now.
B、show that few graduates started working right after graduation.
C、demonstrate that there were much fewer graduates than now.
D、emphasize the sharp contrast between now and then.
答案D
解析 文章首段以<毕业生>中达斯汀·翟夫曼饰演的角色为例简单说明了六十年代毕业生的担忧，第二段随即指出Hoffman’s modern courtterparts are not so fortunate．，接下来文章重点讲述现在的毕业生会因为面临unemployment而恐慌(feel alarmed)，注意此处与首段中the sum total…anxiety syndrome的对比，可见作者引入《毕业生》中的情节旨在对比强调现在毕业生的处境，[D]正确。[A]是事实，但与文章的主旨不符，不是文章引入《毕业生》中情节的目的；六十年代的毕业生毕业后就投入工作，所以[B]本身的描述不符合事实；当时的毕业生可能比现在少很多，但这并不是文章引入对比的目的，排除[C]。
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