Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized training. Ideally, therefore, the choice of an __1__ should be made even before choice of a curriculum in high school. Actually, __2_-_, most people make several job choices during their working lives, __3__ because of economic and Industrial changes and partly to improve __4__ position. The "one perfect job" does not exist. Young people should __5__ entersintosa broad flexible training p# @! u7 U+ Q; O
rogram that will __6__ them for a field of work rather than for a single __7__ .
/ ~0 @. c: s/ O4 U3 V Unfortunately many young people have to make career plans __8__ benefit of help form a competent vocational counselor or psychologist. Knowing __9__ about the occupational world, or themselves for that matter, they choose their lifework on a hit-or-miss __10__. Some drift from job to job. Others __11__ to work in which they are unhappy and for which they are not fitted.
4 R% c* f5 `. z3 l l5 g One common mistake is choosing an occupation for __12__ real or imagined prestige. Too many high-school students - or their parents for them - choose the professional field, __13__ both the relatively small proportion of workers in the professions and the extremely high educational and personal __14__. The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a White-collar" job is __15__ good reason for choosing it as life's work. __16__, these occupations are not always well paid. Since a large proportion of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the __17__ of young people should give serious __18__ to these fields.1 m( O! V4 u. N5 u. k+ N
Before making an occupational choice, a person should have a general idea of what he wants __19__ life and how hard he is willing to work to get it. Some people desire social prestige, others intellectual satisfaction. Some want security; others are willing to take __20__ for financial gain. Each occupational choice has its demands as well as its rewards.
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$ X6 }0 m9 l8 U j 14. A. preferences B. requirements C. tendencies D. ambitions
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16. A. Therefore B. However C. Nevertheless D. Moreover
1 T* e0 [6 j/ X 17. A. majority B. mass C. minority D. multitude
8 o. m. f& ?- r7 L; R8 f 18. A. proposal B. suggestion C. consideration D. appraisal
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$ {( ~. Z5 I* ^, i6 H 20. A. turns B. parts C. choices D. risks& Z7 J, \- B! `" Z2 `
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