新标准大学英语综合教程4课后答案

综合教程4课后答案

Handouts and Key to book4 unit 1-4

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 2008 in The Times, a long-established British quality newspaper. In Europe generally, and in

Britain in particular, for a number of years there has been a r i s i ng nu mber of stude nts who go to uni vers ity and therefore more new graduates seeking employment. However,

for many graduates finding a job became harder in 2008 - 2009 because the economic downturn - then a rcccssion - 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

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 than sitting unemployed at home since this is more

1ikely to lead to better employment later. The style is partly of a report, but also

of a humorous comment for light entertainment (scon in the jokey lemguage and problem-solving advice to parents).

Why finding a job in 2008 is so difficuIt for university 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 2008 onwards with the

credit crunch and economic 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 f 订1 in many application forms and try to get job interviews: they won' t find employment by lying on the sofa at home.

Culture points

:Traditionally, in the British

a pass degree. Most people get a second. There are also ordinary degrees with more general courses of study without these categories.

it: 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 which are given different informal names university system, BA and

awarded

in different categories: a

using Roman numbers as I), subcategories, written as cal 1ed "a two one v and (written III) and

BSc honours degrees are first class degree (written a second (divided into two

Ilii and Ilii, which are u a

two two" ), a third