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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 does the author imply by "we might do well to restrain our applause" (Line 4, Para.1)?
选项 A、We should do well to get more approval from others.
B、We should not be proud if we want to make achievement.
C、Too much applause will prevent us from doing well.
D、The situation may not be as optimistic as we have expected.
答案D
解析 推理判断题。本题考查的是作者对于大学高入学率的态度。定位句中的restrain意为“克制”，applause意为“掌声”，克制掌声暗示作者认为人们不应该为这件事感到欢欣。因此，作者对此的态度应该是否定的。此外，从定位句后面的内容来看，作者提出很多根本没有继续学习能力的学生也被送进大学，也反映出作者的不满态度。因此D)是本题答案。A)“我们应该做得好一点以便得到别人更多的赞同”、B)“如果我们想取得成就就不能骄傲”和C)“太多的掌声会妨碍我们做得好”都和原文无关，故排除。
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