Question

Choosing a Career After High School

1. Start thinking early about what kind of work you may want to explore after high school, remembering that you can change careers several times throughout your work life. Your exact choice should take into consideration your interests, personality and personal goals. Read on for some general options to think about when you are choosing a career after high school.

1. Take a personality and interest test. 2. The Keirsey Temperament Sorter assumes that you have your own patterns of attitude and actions that are as unique to you as the build of your body. The Keirsey test gives you 71 multiple-choice questions to determine exactly how you interact with the world.

2. 3. Careers in the professions and most government work require a college education, with a minimum of a bachelor's degree. Other careers do not require a college education, but rather offer on-the-job training and start you out in an entry-level position from which you can grow.

3. Take vocational training courses. Vocational training prepares you for a specific job and can usually be completed in six months to one year. This may not be a very good option if you struggled with your grades in high school. Vocational training programs are usually modeled after academic training, but are much more hands-on as they allow you to actually do the work while you learn.

4. Join the military. 4. The military pays for your future university education and offers you an attractive enlistment(應征入伍) bonus. You will be trained to learn a variety of skills, so be prepared for a highly structured environment that demands self-discipline and hard work.

5. Start a business. It is important that you enter a career that makes you want to devote yourself wholly to. 5. This option takes serious discipline and focus, and it requires you to learn basic business skills in addition to the skills of your particular kind of work.

A. Personality varies from person to person.

B. You become qualified to join at the age of 18.

C. Find out the educational requirements for your career choices.

D. Starting a business can be a great challenge for them.

E. There are many good online tests that will help you discover what kind of career suits your personality.

F. If you cannot find the right fit in an existing job, then you may be able to create your job through self-employment.

G. When you graduate from high school, you can either choose to continue your schooling or pursue a career, with all its seemingly endless choices.

Answer 1

1.G

2.E

3.C

4.B

5.F

【解析】

試題分析：本文就高中畢業后如何選擇職業提出了幾點建議。

1.G 考查理解概括能力。根據文章的標題以及空缺處后的句子可知，該處描述的是高中畢業后的兩種選擇：繼續上學或尋找工作。故G項“When you graduate from high school, you can either choose to continue

your schooling or pursue a career, with all its seemingly endless choices.”符合語境，選G。

2.E 考查理解概括能力。空缺處前一句是說，要進行一個性格和興趣的測試；空缺后舉例說明這一情況，故空缺處應填網上有很多好的測試能幫助你發現哪種工作適合你的性格。E項“There are many good online tests that will help you discover what kind of career suits your personality.”符合語境，故選E。

3.C 考查理解概括能力。根據后面的句子中出現的“require a college education”“ a bachelor's degree”可知此處是和教育有關的，故C項表述“Find out the educational requirements for your career choices.”符合語境，故選C。

4.B 考查理解概括能力。根據第一句“Join the military”可知此處是講參軍入伍的情況的，故B項表述“You become qualified to join at the age of 18.”符合語境，選B。

5.F 考查理解概括能力。根據首句“Start a business”可知本段是關于自主創業的；根據前面一句和后一句中的“this option”可知，如果你在現在的工作中找不到合適的位置，就可以自主創業為自己打工。故F項表述“If you cannot find the right fit in an existing job, then you may be able to create your job through self-employment.”符合語境，選F。

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