新标准大学英语第四册第1课

Looking for a job after university?

First, get off the sofa

More than 650,000 students left university this summer and many have no idea about the way to get a job. How tough should a parent be to galvanize通电，刺激them in these financially fraught担心的，忧虑的times?

1 In July, you looked on as your handsome 21-year-old son, dressed in gown and mortarboard, proudly clutched his honors degree for his graduation photo. Those memories of forking out不情愿掏出thousands of pounds a year so that he could eat well and go to the odd party began to fade. Until now.

2 As the summer break comes to a close and students across the country prepare for the start of a new term, you find that your graduate son is still spending his days slumped 掉落in front of the television, broken only by texting, Facebook and visits to the pub. This former scion幼芽of Generation Y has morphed改变overnight into a member of Generating Grunt. Will he ever get a job?

3. This is the scenario情节facing thousands of families. More than 650,000 students left university this summer and most in these financially testing times have no idea what to do next. Parents revert to回复nagging; sons and daughters become rebels without a cause, aware that they need to get a job, but not sure how.

4. Jack Goodwin, from Middlesex, graduated with a 2:1 in politics from Nottingham this summer. He walked into the university careers service and straight back out again; there was a big queue. He lived with five other boys all of whom did the same. There was no pressure to find a job, even though most of the girls he knew had a clearer plan.

5. “I applied for a job as a political researcher, but got turned down,” he says. “they were paying￡18,000,doesn’t buy you much more than a tin of beans after rent, but they wanted people with experience or master’s degrees. Then I applied for the Civil Service fast stream. I passed the exam, but at the interviews they accused me of being ‘too detached” and talking in language that was ‘too technocratic’, which I didn’t think possible, but obviously it is.”

6. Since then he has spent the summer “hiding”. He can recount several episodes of Traffic Cops and has seen more daytime television than is healthy. He talks to his friends about his aimless days and finds that most are in the same boat. One has been forced out to stack shelves by his parents. For the rest it is 9-to-5 “chilling” before heading to the pub. So how about working behind 大学毕业后找工作吗?

《首先,离开沙发，行动起来》

超过65万的学生今年夏天就要离开了大学了，而且许多人都不知道怎样才能找到工作。父母是多么艰难，他们要在

经济不景气时期激励这些孩子，并非易事?

1. 7月, 你看着你那英俊的21岁的儿子,身着长袍，头戴学位帽, 骄傲地拿着荣誉学位拍下毕业照片。这时一年当中为了让他吃好喝好，为了让他参加各种聚会，家长对此要掏出几千

英镑。这些曾经的记忆都烟消云散了。但是直到现在又要开

始讲钱的事了。

2暑假结束之前,全国学生纷纷准备新学期的开始,你发现你毕了业的儿子仍然消磨着日子蜷缩在电视机前,一动不动，偶尔发发短信,上上社交网，泡泡酒吧。这位从前的“千禧一代”的年轻人一夜之间变成了“抱怨一代”的一员。他究竟会不

会去找到工作呢?

3。这是成千上万家庭面对的情景。超过65万的学生在这个

夏天离开了大学，很多学生在经济不景气的时候不知道下一

步该做什么。父母又开始唠叨;儿女们变得无缘无故的叛逆,

他们意识到需要找个工作,但又不知道该怎么办。

　4。从密德萨斯郡回来的杰克·古德温, 以政治学2:1的比例，今年夏天从诺丁汉大学毕业。他走进大学就业服务中心，但是又径直走了出来; 那里的队伍排成长龙。和他住在一起的五个男生和他一样，进去又出来。找一份工作倒是没有压力, 尽管他知道的大多数女生却有一个更明确的计划。

5。“我申请一份政治研究员的工作,但是被拒绝了,”他说。“他们付18，000英镑的工资，交了房租后就连一听豆子罐头也买不了,然而,他们还要招聘有经验或有硕士学位的人。后来我申请公务员快速分流计划。我通过了考试,但在面试时，他们又指责我“太超然”谈话的语言“太技术统治论”了, 虽然我认为不可能,但显然如此"。

6。从那以后他整个夏天都“隐藏”起来。他可以讲出电视记录片《交通警察》上的几集的内容，他白天成天看电

视不惜损坏健康。他对朋友们聊起无所事事的日子, 结果发现大多数人也有同感。有一个人已经被父母逼得去超市上货。

其余的人早9晚5（白天）“已心灰意冷”, 晚上就去泡酒吧。那么找个酒吧里的工作怎么样呢, 起码可以付点酒费吧?“我不想做酒吧工作。我去上了综合学校，我竭尽全力才上了一

个好大学,努力得到了好学位,”他说。“现在我的处境和那些