Question

Organized volunteering and work experience has long been a vital companion to university degree courses. Usually it is left to __50__ to deduce the potential from a list of extracurricular adventures on a graduate’s resume, but now the University of Bristol has launched an award to formalize the achievements of students who __51__ time to activities outside their courses. Bristol PluS aims to boost students in an increasingly competitive job market by helping them acquire work and life skills as well as __52__ qualifications.

Our students are a pretty active bunch, but we found that they didn’t __53__ appreciate the value of what they did outside the lecture hall,” says Jeff Goodman, director of careers and employability at the university. “Employers are much more __54__ than they used to be. They used to look for __55__ and saw it as part of their job to extract the value of an applicant’s skills. Now they want students to be able to explain why those skills are __56__ to the job.”

Students who sign up for the awards will be expected to complete 50 hours of work experience or __57__ work, attend four workshops on employability skills, take part in an intensive skills-related activity __58__, crucially, write a summary of the skills they have gained. __59__ efforts will gain an Outstanding Achievement Award. Those who perform best on the sports field can take the Sporting Plus Award which fosters employer-friendly sports accomplishments.

The experience does not have to be __60__ organized, “We’re not just interested in easily identifiable skills,” says Goodman. “__61__, one student took the lead in dealing with a difficult landlord and so __62__ negotiation skills. We try to make the experience relevant to individual lives.”

Goodman hopes the __63__ will enable active students to fill in any gaps in their experience and encourage their less-active __64__ to take up activities outside their academic area of work.

50. A. advisors               B. specialists                  C. critics                 D. employers    

51. A. divide                  B. devote                      C. deliver                 D. donate       

52. A. artistic                B. technical                    C. academic            D. interactive    

53. A. hardly                 B. possibly                    C. necessarily          D. gracefully    

54. A. generous             B. considerate                C. imaginative          D. demanding     

55. A. origin                  B. background               C. popularity           D. potential     

56. A. relevant               B. responsive                C. reluctant              D. respective     

57. A. casual                 B. selective                   C. homely               D. voluntary      

58. A. or                       B. thus                         C. so                      D. and           

59. A .Occasional           B. Exceptional                C. Informative         D. Relative       

60. A. roughly               B. commonly                 C. formally              D. fortunately   

61. A. For instance        B. In reality                   C. In contrast          D. Of course      

62. A. demonstrated       B. determined                C. operated              D. involved       

63. A. device                 B. section                     C. scheme              D. disturbance    

64. A. attendants            B. agents                      C. members            D. peers       

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