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【题目】Choosing a Career After High School

【1】 Start thinking early about what kind of work you may want to explore after high school, remembering that you can change careers several times throughout your work life. Your exact choice should take into consideration your interests, personality and personal goals. Read on for some general options to think about when you are choosing a career after high school.

1. Take a personality and interest test. 【2】 The Keirsey Temperament Sorter assumes that you have your own patterns of attitude and actions that are as unique to you as the build of your body. The Keirsey test gives you 71 multiple-choice questions to determine exactly how you interact with the world.

2. 【3】 Careers in the professions and most government work require a college education, with a minimum of a bachelor's degree. Other careers do not require a college education, but rather offer on-the-job training and start you out in an entry-level position from which you can grow.

3. Take vocational training courses. Vocational training prepares you for a specific job and can usually be completed in six months to one year. This may not be a very good option if you struggled with your grades in high school. Vocational training programs are usually modeled after academic training, but are much more hands-on as they allow you to actually do the work while you learn.

4. Join the military. 【4】 The military pays for your future university education and offers you an attractive enlistment(应征入伍) bons. You will be trained to learn a variety of skills, so be prepared for a highly structured environment that demands self-discipline and hard work.

5. Start a business. It is important that you enter a career that makes you want to devote yourself wholly to. 【5】 This option takes serious discipline and focus, and it requires you to learn basic business skills in addition to the skills of your particular kind of work.

A. Personality varies from person to person.

B. You become qualified to join at the age of 18.

C. Find out the educational requirements for your career choices.

D. Starting a business can be a great challenge for them.

E. There are many good online tests that will help you discover what kind of career suits your personality.

F. If you cannot find the right fit in an existing job, then you may be able to create your job through self-employment.

G. When you graduate from high school, you can either choose to continue your schooling or pursue a career, with all its seemingly endless choices.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】G

【2】E

【3】C

【4】B

【5】F

【解析】

试题分析：本文就高中毕业后如何选择职业提出了几点建议。

【1】G 考查理解概括能力。根据文章的标题以及空缺处后的句子可知，该处描述的是高中毕业后的两种选择：继续上学或寻找工作。故G项“When you graduate from high school, you can either choose to continue

your schooling or pursue a career, with all its seemingly endless choices.”符合语境，选G。

【2】E 考查理解概括能力。空缺处前一句是说，要进行一个性格和兴趣的测试；空缺后举例说明这一情况，故空缺处应填网上有很多好的测试能帮助你发现哪种工作适合你的性格。E项“There are many good online tests that will help you discover what kind of career suits your personality.”符合语境，故选E。

【3】C 考查理解概括能力。根据后面的句子中出现的“require a college education”“ a bachelor's degree”可知此处是和教育有关的，故C项表述“Find out the educational requirements for your career choices.”符合语境，故选C。

【4】B 考查理解概括能力。根据第一句“Join the military”可知此处是讲参军入伍的情况的，故B项表述“You become qualified to join at the age of 18.”符合语境，选B。

【5】F 考查理解概括能力。根据首句“Start a business”可知本段是关于自主创业的；根据前面一句和后一句中的“this option”可知，如果你在现在的工作中找不到合适的位置，就可以自主创业为自己打工。故F项表述“If you cannot find the right fit in an existing job, then you may be able to create your job through self-employment.”符合语境，选F。