Step 3 测验与练习
Task 1 阅读课文并回答问题。
1. What is the issue for young people hoping to work in the art, culture, entertainment and sport employment sectors?
There are more people wanting to work in these sectors than there are jobs.
2. Why might a young person be drawn to working in art, culture, entertainment and sport?
The glamour and excitement of working in these employment sectors is obviously a draw.
3. True or false? Research by the Office for National Statistics found a majority of people surveyed ended up working as sales assistants, careers or in sales and marketing.
True. Apart from those who aimed to go into teaching, less than one in 50 were in the jobs they had wanted with most working as sales assistants, careers or in sales and marketing.
4. Which employment sector in the UK needs more people to work in it?
There is a shortfall of young people wanting to work in careers such as catering and retail.
5. According to the report, what should younger children be made of aware of?
This latest report suggests that children need to be made more aware of a wider variety of occupations at a younger age.
Task 2请在不参考课文的情况下完成下列练习。选择意思恰当的单词或词组来完成下列句子。
1. I love all the _______ of the Oscars, so I always stay up late to watch it.
A. dream job B. glamour C. aspirations D. shortfall
2. With my limited amount of money, I have to be _______ about the size of house I can afford to buy.
A. retail B. realise C. realistic D. realistical
3. There seems to be a _______ of plumbers because I can’t find anyone to fix my boiler!
A. culture B. occupation C. shortfall D. reality gap
4. My job doesn’t give me any _______, so it’s time for a new job.
A. job satisfaction B. job satisfying C. jobs satisfaction D. job satisfy
5. When I was little, I had _______ to be an actor in a big Hollywood movie.
A. dream job B. culture C. glamour D. aspirations
Task 3 语法填空
What did you want to be when you were growing up? A doctor, an engineer - or maybe a _1____________ (football) or actor? We all had big plans for our futures and believed there was a dream job _2____________ (wait) for us – one that would pay well and give great job_3_____________ (satisfy). But how realistic was that?
Today, in the UK at least, young people are being warned _4________ some of their career hopes and dreams don’t match the types of jobs available. Research by the charity Education and Employers suggests five times as many 17 and 18 year-olds in the UK want to work in art, culture, _5______________ (entertain) and sport than there are jobs.
The glamour and excitement of working in these employment sectors is_6______________ (obvious) a draw. But those looking for these types of job will be ‘destined for disappointment’. That’s _7_______ the report, Disconnected: Career aspirations and jobs in the UK, says. Writing about this for the BBC, Katherine Sellgren points out that while young people are keen to work in art, entertainment, culture and sport, the economy is unlikely _8___________ (need) them all. In the meantime, there is a shortfall of young people _9_____________ (want) to work in careers such as catering and retail.
Previous research about the career aspirations of young people by the Office for National Statistics also found a ‘reality gap’ between their dreams and the sometimes disappointing _10___________ (true) by the time they reached their early to late-20s. Apart _11________ those who aimed to go into teaching, fewer than one in 50 were in the jobs they had wanted – such as a doctor, vet, firefighter or actor. Most were working as sales assistants, careers or in sales and marketing.
_12___________it’s good to have aspirations, the aims of young people need to be realistic. This latest report suggests that children need to be made more aware _13_______ a wider variety of occupations at a younger age. It also calls for improved careers advice in secondary schools. A spokeswoman for the Department for Work and Pensions told the BBC that “early careers advice can help young people set out on _14_________ right path to the job_15____________ channels their interests and unlocks their potential.”
1, footballer 2, waiting 3, satisfaction 4, that 5, entertainment 6, obviously 7, what
8, to need 9, wanting 10, truth 11, from 12, While/Though/Although 13, of
14, the 15, that /which
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