Directions: Read the texts from an article, For five
questions, match each rule(1 to5) to one of the statements (A to G) given below.
Mark your answer on your ANSWER SHEET.
Zhao: I should say qualifications are very important
nowadays. You’ll never get a good job if you don’ t have any qualifications. As
I can see it, qualifications are a good proof that you have the necessary
qualities and skills to work in a particular profession. If you want to get a
job, you must have some kind of qualifications. Qian: I
agree that qualifications are important nowadays. But qualifications are
certainly no guarantee of success. The thing is that with a growing number of
people looking for a smaller and smaller number of jobs a person without any
qualifications stands very little chance. I think the kind of qualification
people want is changing, though. They seem to want something far more related to
the kind of job they want to do. The number of people who want to do arts degree
at university is falling for example, but computing courses are nearly always
full. Sun: I don’ t think qualifications are very important
nowadays at least not higher qualifications. I think it’ s all right if you can
leave school with some sort of certificate, but after that I think a lot is up
to the individual to succeed. If the will to make it to the top is there,
then paper qualifications are not going to make any difference at all. How many
chairman and directors of large companies have university degrees My
guess is that there are not many. So, I think that there is a lot to be said for
good sound experience rather than a piece of paper. Li: I
think it is very important to have qualifications if you want to succeed. As
higher education is available to nearly everybody nowadays the chance of
obtaining employment without any qualifications is almost impossible. I
think far too much importance is attached to qualifications and not enough to
experience and capability, but I feel that until it becomes more difficult to
obtain a qualification this situation will continue. Wang: I
think today what you know is much less important than what kind of academic
background you’ ve got, or whom you know or how old you are. You see, many
Young people are complaining about it. On the one hand, society provides young
people with better educational facilities, on the other it does its best to
exclude them from the job that really matter. I think people, whether you are
young or old, should be free to compete on equal terms. What counts should be
one’s ability, not one’ s background or academic qualifications.
Now match each of the schools to the appropriate statement.
Note: there are two extra statements.
Statements [A] Good sound
experience and the will to succeed are more important than paper
qualifications. [B] The situation that too much importance is attached to
qualifications and not enough to experience and capability will probably
continue. [C] Qualifications are very important because they prove that you
have achieved the necessary standard of knowledge or skill in a subject. [D]
Qualifications are guarantee of success. [E] More importance is being
attached to practical qualifications, such as computing, rather than purely
academic qualifications, such as arts degree. [F] Without higher
qualification, you will never succeed. [G] People should compete
equally. ( )Qian