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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.
According to the passage, what will be highlighted for most jobs?
选项 A、The academic courses students have learned during their college years.
B、The courses which teachers considered to be essential to a major.
C、Soft skills such as work ethic, ability to collaborate and responsibility.
D、Rich knowledge and experience students gathered in college and society.
答案C
解析 事实细节题。由第三段第二句可知，对于大部分工作，人们重视的是软实力。第三句紧接着对软实力进行了详细解释。题干中的highlight和原文中的prize意思相近，都含有“强调。珍视”的意思。因而highlight的宾语应该就是prize的宾语。因此C)是本题答案。A)“学生们在大学期间学的专业课”和B)“老师们认为对于专业学生非常必要的课程”和原文意思相反。原文提出专业课程并不重要，雇主重视的是软实力，故排除；D)“学生们在大学和社会中积累的丰富的知识和经验”和原文讨论无关，故排除。
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