When your parents advise you to “get an education” in order to raise your income, they tell you only half the truth. What they really mean is to get just enough education to provide manpower（人力資源） for your society, but not so much that you prove an embarrassment to your society.
Get a high school diploma, at least. Without that, you will be occupationally dead unless your name happens to be George Bernard Shaw or Thomas Alva Edison, and you can successfully dropout in grade school.
Get a college degree, if possible. With a B. A., you are on the launching pad. But now you have to start to put on the brakes. If you go for a master’s degree, make sure it is an M.B.A., and the famous law of diminishing(逐漸減少的) returns begins to take effect.
Do you know, for instance, that long-haul truck drivers earn more per year than full professors? Yes, the average salary for those truckers was $24000 while the full professors managed to earn just $23030.
A doctorate is the highest degree you can get. Except for a few specialized fields such as physics or chemistry where the degree can quickly be turned to industrial or commercial purposes, if you pursue such a degree in any other field, you will face a future which is not bright. There are more doctors unemployed or underemployed in this country than any other part of the world.
If you become a doctor in English or history or anthropology or political science or languages or—worst of all—in philosophy, you run the risk of becoming overeducated for our national demands. Not for our needs, mind you, but for our demands.
Thousands of doctors are selling shoes, driving cars, waiting on table, and endlessly filling out applications month after month. They may also take a job in some high school or backwater(閉塞) college that pays much less than the doorkeeper earns.
You can equate the level of income with the level of education only so far. Far enough, that is, to make you useful to the gross national product, but not so far that nobody can turn much of a profit on you.
小題1:According to the writer, what the society expects of education is to turn out people who ______.
A．will not be a disgrace to society
B．will become loyal citizens
C．can take care of themselves
D．can meet the nation’s demand as a source of manpower
小題2:Many doctors are out of job because ______.
A．they are improperly educated
B．they are of little commercial value to their society
C．there are fewer jobs in high schools
D．they prefer easier jobs that make more money
小題3:The nation is only interested in people ______.
A．with diplomas
B．who specialize in physics and chemistry
C．who are valuable to the gross national product
D．who receive little education
小題4:Which of the following is NOT true?
A．Bernard Shaw didn’t finish high school, nor did Edison.
B．One must think carefully before pursuing a master’s degree.
C．The higher your education level, the more money you will earn.
D．If you are too well-educated, you’ll be overeducated for society’s demands.
小題5:The writer sees education as ______.
A．a(chǎn) means of providing job security and financial security and a means of meeting a country’s demands for technical workers
B．a(chǎn) way to broaden one’s horizons
C．more important than finding a job
D．a(chǎn)n opportunity that everyone should have

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:C
小題5:A

試題分析：文章闡述了教育是一種提供工作安全和財政安全的手段，一種滿足國家對技術(shù)工人的要求的手段，有時教育的水平和收入并不能夠成正比。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章第一段的句子：What they really mean is to get just enough education to provide manpower（人力資源） for your society, but not so much that you prove an embarrassment to your society.可知社會希望教育可以轉(zhuǎn)向做為人力資源能夠達到國家要求的人，所以選D
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章第六段的句子：If you become a doctor in English or history or anthropology or political science or languages or—worst of all—in philosophy, you run the risk of becoming overeducated for our national demands. Not for our needs, mind you, but for our demands.可知很多博士失業(yè)是因為他們對社會沒有什么商業(yè)價值，選B
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)題：從最后一段文章的句子：to make you useful to the gross national product, but not so far that nobody can turn much of a profit on you.可知國家只對國家產(chǎn)品總收入有價值的人感興趣，選C
小題4:推理題：從文章第四段的句子：Do you know, for instance, that long-haul truck drivers earn more per year than full professors?可知你的教育水平越高，掙的錢就越多，這句話是錯的，選C
小題5:細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章第一段的句子：Get a high school diploma, at least. Without that, you will be occupationally dead和第四段 A doctorate is the highest degree you can get. Except for a few specialized fields such as physics or chemistry where the degree can quickly be turned to industrial or commercial purposes,可知作者認(rèn)為教育是一種提供工作安全和財政安全的手段，一種滿足國家對技術(shù)工人的要求的手段，選A
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