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1、学 海 无 涯 包含综合教程 4 中的一些课文翻译及习题答案 综合教程 4 课后答案 Handouts and Key to book4 unit1 4 Unit 1 Active reading 1 Looking for a job after university First get off the sofa Background information About the passage This is an article by an Education Correspondent Alexandra Blair published in September XXXX in The
2、Times a long established British quality newspaper In Europe generally and in Britain in particular for a number of years there has been a rising number of students who go to university and therefore more new graduates seeking employment However for many graduates finding a job became harder in XXXX
3、 XXXX because the economic downturn then a recession meant that many employers werereducing their workforce After their final exams some students rested in the summer before looking for jobs and then they found that it was difficult to find employment in their field or at the level they wanted The 学
4、 海 无 涯 article addresses the problems of such new graduates who might be stuck at home and advises their parents to be there for their children ie to be available if their children want to talk about the problem or if they need help The article recommends finding work in a bar or supermarket rather
5、than sitting unemployed at home since this is more likely to lead to better employment later The style is partly of a report but also of a humorous comment for light entertainment seen in the jokey language and problem solving advice to parents Why finding a job in XXXX is so difficult for universit
6、y graduates Universities in Europe particularly in Britain have expanded greatly in the last fifteen years over 45 of young adults now go on to higher education so there are more graduates looking for jobs This competitive situation became a lot worse in XXXX onwards with the credit crunch and econo
7、mic depression which meant that there were fewer jobs available and a rise in unemployment Thus new graduates have to be active to seek a job they need to fill in many application forms and try 学 海 无 涯 to get job interviews they won t find employment by lying on the sofa at home Culture points honou
8、rs degree Traditionally in the British university system BA and BSc honours degrees are awarded in different categories a first class degree written using Roman numbers as I a second divided into two subcategories written as IIii and IIii which are called a two one and a two two a third written III
9、and a pass degree Most people get a second There are also ordinary degrees with more general courses of study without these categories Generation Y and Grunt The main idea here is that there is a succession of different generations or cohorts of adults who come into the workforce in North America wh
10、ich are given different informal names to characterize them First Baby boomers were born in the great increase the boom of births after World War II 1946 1960 followed by Generation X people born 1960 1980 who were said to bring new attitudes of being independent informal entrepreneurial and expecte
11、d to get skills and have a career before 学 海 无 涯 them GenerationY or the Millenial Generation born 1980s and 1990s and becoming adult in the new millenium are now making up an increasing percentage of the workforce they are said to be spoilt by doting parents to have structured lives to be used to t
12、eamwork and diverse people in a multicultural society In the passage this generation is now becoming morphing into Generation Grunt which is an ironic name referring to repetitive low status routine or mindless work this may be the only work available to some graduates who may have to take very ordi
13、nary jobs to get experience before they find something more suitable Grunt also refers to coarse behaviour or bad manners and to the deep sound that is made by a pig when people grunt they express disgust but do not communicate with words this may be how the parents of new graduates think their chil
14、dren communicate with them A comprehensive refers to a British type of secondary school which became popular in the1960s Before that there were academic grammar schools and more general secondary modern schools for those who did not pass the grammar school entrance tests but the 学 海 无 涯 comprehensiv
15、e schools were designed for all students in a social philosophy of bringing diverse students together whether they were academic or not Those students who went to a comprehensive school probably felt that had to study particularly hard I worked my backside off to get to university compared to those
16、who went to grammar schools where all students were academic comprehensive students felt they had to struggle to get to university Chicken suit This refers to a large yellow costume that someone wears which makes the person look like a giant chicken Before he became a famous actor Brad Pitt once dressed in such a costume when he had a job advertising for a restaurant called El Pollo Loco The Crazy Chicken in Spanish the job meant that he had to walk around the streets like a chicken to attract c
