A) Adults giving a lift to teenagers on the highway after 10 p.m.
B) A teenager driving after midnight with passengers in the car.
C) Adults driving with three or more teenage passengers late at night.
D) A teenager getting a lift from a stranger on the highway at midnight.
22. According to Robert Foss. The high death rate of teenage drivers is mainly due to
________.
A) their frequent driving at night
B) their improper way of driving
C) their lack of driving experience
D) their driving with passengers
23. According to Paragraph 3. which of the following statements is TRUE?
A) Teenagers should spend more time learning to drive.
B) Driving is a skill too complicated for teenagers to learn.
C) Restrictions should be imposed on teenagers applying to take driving lessons.
D) The licensing authorities are partly responsible for teenagers’ driving accidents.
24. A suggested measure to be taken to reduce teenagers’ driving accidents is that
________.
A) driving in the presence of an adult should be made a rule
B) they should be prohibited from taking on passengers
C) they should not be allowed to drive after 10 p.m.
D) the licensing system should be improved
25. The present situation in about half of the states is that the graduated licensing
system ________.
A) is under discussion
B) is about to be set up
C) has been put into effect
D) has been perfected
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
If you know exactly what you want, the best route to a job is to get specialized
training. A recent survey shows that companies like graduates in such fields as business
and health care who can go to work immediately with very little on-the-job training.
That’s especially true of booming fields that are challenging for workers. At
Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration, for example, bachelor’s degree graduates get
an average of four or five job offers with salaries ranging from the high teens to the low
20s and plenty of chances for rapid advancement. Large companies, especially, like a
background of formal education coupled with work experience.
But in the long run, too much specialization doesn’t pay off. Business, which has
been flooded with MBAs, no longer considers the degree an automatic stamp of approval.
The MBA may open doors and command a higher salary initially, but the impact of a
degree washes out after five years.
As further evidence of the erosion (销蚀) of corporate (公司的) faith in specialized
degrees, Michigan State’s Scheetz cites a pattern in corporate hiring practices, although
companies tend to take on specialists as new hires, they often seek out generalists for
middle and upper-level management. “They want someone who isn’t constrained (限制)
by nuts and bolts to look at the big picture, “says Scheetz.
This sounds suspiciously like a formal statement that you approve of the liberal-arts
graduate. Time and again labor-market analysts mention a need for talents that liberal-arts
majors are assumed to have: writing and communication skills, organizational skills,
open-mindedness and adaptability, and the ability to analyze and solve problems, David
Birch claims he does not hire anybody with an MBA or an engineering degree, “I hire
only liberal-arts people because they have a less-than-canned way of doing things,” says
Birch. Liberal-arts means an academically thorough and strict program that includes
literature, history, mathematics, economics, science, human behavior—plus a computer
course or two. With that under your belt, you can feel free to specialize, “A liberal-arts
degree coupled with an MBA or some other technical training is a very good combination
in the marketplace,” says Scheetz.
26. What kinds of people are in high demand on the job market?