2013年12月大学英语六级考试真题(第二套)
C) They often have to seek jobs outside the academic circle.
D) They are regarded as the nation s driving force of change.
57. What does the author say about America s Ph.D. training?
A) It should be improved to better suit the job market.
B) It is closely linked to future career requirements.
C) It should be re-oriented to careers outside academia.
D) It includes a great variety of practical courses.
58. What was recommended for Ph.D.s and postdoctoral researchers?
A) They meet the urgent needs of the corporate world.
B) A long-term career goal be set as early as possible.
C) An IDP be made in consultation with an adviser.
D) They acquire an explicit tool to help obtain jobs.
59. Government agencies and the private sector often use IDPs to __________.
A) bring into full play the skills and expertise of their postdoctoral researchers
B) help employees make the best use of their abilities to achieve their career goals
C) place employees in the most appropriate positions
D) hire the most suitable candidates to work for them
60. What do we know about myIDP?
A) It is an effective tool of self-assessment and introspection for better career plans.
B) It enables people to look into various possibilities and choose the career they love.
C) It promises a long-term career path.
D) It is part of the graduate curricula.
Passage Two
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
Just over a decade into the 21st century, women s progress can be celebrated across a range of fields. They hold the highest political offices from Thailand to Brazil, Costa Rica to Australia. A woman holds the top spot at the International Monetary Fund; another won the Nobel Prize in
economics. Self-made billionaires in Beijing, tech innovators in Silicon Valley, pioneering justices in Ghana—in these and countless other areas, women are leaving their mark.
But hold the applause. In Saudi Arabia, women aren t allowed to drive. In Pakistan, 1,000women die in honor killings every year. In the developed world, women lag behind men in pay and political power. The poverty rate among women in the U.S. rose to 14.5% last year.
To measure the state of women s progress. Newsweek ranked 165 countries, looking at five areas that affect women s lives; treatment under the law, workforce participation, political power, and access to education and health care. Analyzing data from the United Nations and the
WorldEconomic Forum, among others, and consulting with experts and academics, we measured 28 factorsto come up with our rankings.
Countries with the highest scores tend to be clustered in the West, where gender discrimination is against the law, and equalrights are constitutionally enshrined(神圣化). But there were some surprises. Some otherwise high-ranking countries had relatively low scores for political
representation. Canadaranked third overall but 26th in power, behind countries such as Cuba and Burundi. Doesthissuggest that a woman in a nation s top office translates to better lives for women in general? Not exactly.“Trying to quantify or measure the impact of women in politics is hard