首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
You’re busy filling out the application form for a position you really need. Let’s assume you once actually completed a couple o
You’re busy filling out the application form for a position you really need. Let’s assume you once actually completed a couple o
admin
2011-03-01
23
问题
You’re busy filling out the application form for a position you really need. Let’s assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn’t it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University? More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university.
Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week. Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them "impostors (骗子)"; another refers to them as "special cases". One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by"no such people". To avoid outright (彻底的) lies, some job-seekers claim that they "attended" or "were associated with" a college or university. After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that "attending" means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that"being associated with" a college means that the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century—that’s when they began keeping records, anyhow. If you don’t want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony diploma.
One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from "Smoot State University". The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the "University of Purdue". As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.
The main idea of this passage is that______.
选项
A、employers are checking more closely on applicants now
B、lying about college degrees has become a widespread problem
C、college degrees can now be purchased easily
D、employers are no longer interested in college degrees
答案
B
解析
主旨题。文章第一段简要概述了求职人员在求职过程中对自己的学历弄虚作假这一社会现象,然后在第二、三段分别给出一些具体的例子进行说明,故选B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/ORkd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语三级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语三级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
Paula:Thereisnosafecigaretteandnosafelevelofconsumption.Somesmokersthinkthatswitchingfromstrongertomilderci
ThetechnologyoftheNorthAmericancoloniesdidnotdifferstrikinglyfromthatofEurope,butinonerespect,thecolonistse
GenerationsofAmericanshavebeenbrought【C1】______tobelievethatagoodbreakfastisimportantforhealth.Eatingbreakfasta
GenerationsofAmericanshavebeenbrought【C1】______tobelievethatagoodbreakfastisimportantforhealth.Eatingbreakfasta
GenerationsofAmericanshavebeenbrought【C1】______tobelievethatagoodbreakfastisimportantforhealth.Eatingbreakfasta
Playistheprincipalbusinessofchildhood,andmoreandmoreinrecentyearsresearchhasshownthegreatimportanceofplayi
Whydosomanypeoplebecomedependentoncigarettes?
Smokingisconsidereddangeroustothehealth:Ourtobacco-sellerMr.Johnson,therefore,alwaysaskshiscustomers,iftheyare
AspeciallabattheUniversityofChicagoisbusyonly【C1】______.Itisadream【C2】______whereresearchersareatwork【C3】___
随机试题
甲状腺危象好发于甲状腺手术后多少小时
简述政治经济制度对教育的影响。
实质性程序的类型包括()
劳动强度指数为18时,按我国体力劳动强度分级标准其劳动强度级别为
火灾自动报警系统对火灾声光警报器进行调试,逐一将火灾声光警报器与火灾报警控制器相连,接通电源。操作火灾报警控制器使火灾声光警报器启动,火灾声光警报器的光信号在100~5001x环境光线下()m处应清晰可见。
一多层民用建筑,耐火等级为一级,该建筑防火分区最大允许建筑面积是()m2。
报关单位收到海关发送的“接受申报”的报文和“现场交单”或“放行交单”通知,表示电子申报成功。()
存款人尚未清偿其开户银行债务的,不得申请撤销该银行结算账户。()
公安工作的一项重要任务就是办案。通过办案( )。
下列有关股权自由现金流量表述正确的有()。
最新回复
(
0
)