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3. MIT is short for Massachusetts Institute of Technology
I. In the text some sentences are missing. Read the text and decide where the sentences or sentence fragments below should go. a.
Learn about the text Indeed, on a relative basis, the return on a four-year degree is near its historic high. b. Information technology has complemented the work of people who do complex research, c.
The group of highly educated individuals who have not done so well recently would be people who have a four-year college degree but nothing beyond that.
d. As machines and low-paid foreign workers have taken on these functions, the skills
associated with them have become less valuable, e.
Whatever the causes, ―a college degree is not the kind of protection against job loss or wage loss that it is used to be.‖ f.
Below it, suspended, sits what might be thought of as the professional middle class.
g. And as manufacturing jobs and semiskilled office positions disappear, much of this vast,
nonprofessional middle class is drifting downward.
h. Since 1993, more than half of the nation‘s income growth has been captured by the top 1
percent of earners,
II. Read the text again and try to summarize the main idea of each paragraph.
III. Read the text carefully and make the choices that can best complete the meanings of the statements according to the text.
1. The sentence ―Trade and technology have increased the number of low-cost substitutes for American workers with only moderate cognitive or manual skills.‖ can be best understood as______.
A. Trade and technology have more and more replaced American workers with only moderate cognitive or manual skills.
B. American workers with moderate cognitive or manual skills have outperformed technology. C. Trade and technology have increased the cost of American workers.
D. Trade and technology have increased job opportunities for American workers. 2. What does ―these forces‖ in the second paragraph refer to? A. American workforces. B. Forces of trade and technology.
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C. Workers with moderate cognitive skills. D. Jobs American workers with cognitive skills do. 3. By the expression ―a result that is not even close to being fully played out‖ the author means that______.
A. a result that does not have much influence
B. a result that is not fully manifested C. a result that will be stunning D. a result that influences political and economical situation
4. The sentence ―Incomes for college graduates barely budged.‖ can be best paraphrased as ______.
A. incomes for college graduates did not increase at all B. incomes for college graduates did not drop C. incomes for college graduates hardly increased D. incomes for college graduates are budgeted favorably 5. The pronoun ―aught‖ is rather archaic, it means____.
A. ―the process‖ B. ―the development of society‖
C. ―the historic period‖ D. ―the process of the economy‘s evolution‖
6. The implied meaning of the sentence ―All the action in earnings is above B.A. level.‖ is ______.
A. if you want to earn a good salary you need a degree above B.A. level B. if you want to earn a good salary you need a B.A. degree C. you will earn money after you get B.A. degree
D. if you want to earn a good salary you have to be a Ph.D holder
7. We get to know from the sentence ―The arrow of fortune points mostly sideways …it points progressively upward.‖ that _____.
A. postgraduates can earn more incomes for young people are not good at all C. both college graduates and postgraduates earn good salaries
D. the higher protion of college graduates and postgraduates earn more than ordinary college graduates
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SUMMPLEMENTARY READING
The Kugelmass Episode
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by Woody Allen
Kugelmass, a professor of humanities at City College, was unhappily married for the second
time. Daphne Kugelmass was an oaf. He also had two dull sons by his first wife, Flo, and was up to his neck in alimony and child support. 2
―Did I know it would turn out so badly?‖ Kugelmass whined to his analyst one day. ―Daphne had promise. Who suspected she‘d let herself go and swell up like a beach ball? Plus she had a few bucks, which is not in itself a healthy reason to marry a person, but it doesn‘t hurt, with the kind of operating nut I have. You see my point?‖ 3 4
Kugelmass was bald and as hairy as a bear, but he had soul.
―I need to meet a new woman,‖ he went on. ―I need to have an affair. I may not look the part,
but I‘m a man who needs romance. I need softness, I need flirtation. I‘m not getting younger, so before it‘s too late I want to make love in Venice, trade quips at ―21,‖1 and exchange coy glances over red wine and candlelight. You see what I‘m saying?‖ 5
Dr. Mandel shifted in his chair and said, ―An affair will solve nothing. You're so unrealistic. Your problems run much deeper.‖
6 ―And also this affair must be discreet,‖ Kugelmass continued. ―I can't afford a second divorce. Daphne would really sock it to me.‖ 7 8 9
―Mr. Kugelmass—‖
―But it can‘t be anyone at City College, because Daphne also works there. Not that anyone on ―Mr. Kugelmass—‖
the faculty at C.C.N.Y.2 is any great shakes, but some of those coeds ...\
10 ―Help me. I had a dream last night. I was skipping through a meadow holding a picnic basket and the basket was marked ?Options.‘ And then I saw there was a hole in the basket.‖
11 ―Mr. Kugelmass, the worst thing you could do is act out. You must simply express your feelings here, and together we‘ll analyze them. You have been in treatment long enough to know there is no overnight cure. After all, I‘m an analyst, not a magician.‖
12 ―Then perhaps what I need is a magician,‖ Kugelmass said, rising from his chair. And with that he terminated his therapy.
13 A couple of weeks later, while Kugelmass and Daphne were moping around in their apartment one night like two pieces of old furniture, the phone rang. 14 ―I'll get it,‖ Kugelmass said. ―Hello.‖
15 ―Kugelmass?‖ a voice said. ―Kugelmass, this is Persky.‖ 16 ―Who?‖
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Here, 21 refers to the 21 Club which is (or was) a famous New York restaurant/night club.
Here C.C.N.Y. refers to the City College of New York. It is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY), in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University‘s twenty-three institutions of higher learning.
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17 ―Persky. Or should I say The Great Persky?‖ 18 ―Pardon me?‖
19 ―I hear you‘re looking all over town for a magician to bring a little exotica into your life? Yes or no?‖
20 ―Sh-h-h,‖ Kugelmass whispered. ―Don‘t hang up. Where are you calling from, Persky?‖ 21 Early the following afternoon, Kugelmass climbed three flights of stairs in a broken-down apartment house in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. Peering through the darkness of the hall, he found the door he was looking for and pressed the bell. I‘m going to regret this, he thought to himself.
22 Seconds later, he was greeted by a short, thin, waxy-looking man. 23 ―You‘re Persky the Great?‖ Kugelmass said. 24 ―The Great Persky. You want a tea?‖
25 ―No, I want romance. I want music. I want love and beauty.‖ 26 ―But not tea, eh? Amazing. O.K., sit down.‖
27 Persky went to the back room, and Kugelmass heard the sounds of boxes and furniture being moved around. Persky reappeared, pushing before him a large object on squeaky roller-skate wheels. He removed some old silk handkerchiefs that were lying on its top and blew away a bit of dust. It was a cheap-looking Chinese cabinet, badly lacquered. 28 ―Persky,‖ Kugelmass said, ―what‘s your scam?‖
29 ―Pay attention,\I developed it for a Knights of Pythias1 date last year, but the booking fell through. Get into the cabinet.‖ 30 ―Why, so you can stick it full of swords or something?‖ 31 ―You see any swords?‖
32 Kugelmass made a face and, grunting, climbed into the cabinet. He couldn‘t help noticing a couple of ugly rhinestones glued onto the raw plywood just in front of his face. ―If this is a joke,‖ he said.
33 ―Some joke. Now, here‘s the point. If I throw any novel into this cabinet with you, shut the doors, and tap it three times, you will find yourself projected into that book.‖ 34 Kugelmass made a grimace of disbelief.
35 ―It‘s the emess2,‖ Persky said. ―My hand to God. Not just a novel, either. A short story, a play, a poem. You can meet any of the women created by the world‘s best writers. Whoever you dreamed of. You could carry on all you like with a real winner. Then when you‘ve had enough you give a yell, and I‘ll see you‘re back here in a split second.‖ 36 ―Persky, are you some kind of outpatient?‖ 37 ―I‘m telling you it‘s on the level,‖ Persky said.
38 Kugelmass remained skeptical. ―What are you telling me-that this cheesy homemade box can 12
knights of Pythias here means a group of men involved in charity work.
emass is a Yiddish word which means ―truth.‖ Yiddish is a language spoken as a vernacular by Jews in Europe and elsewhere by Jewish emigrants.
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take me on a ride like you‘re describing?‖ 39 ―For a double sawbuck.‖
40 Kugelmass reached for his wallet. ―I‘ll believe this when I see it,‖ he said.
41 Persky tucked the bills in his pants pocket and turned toward his bookcase. ―So who do you want to meet? Sister Carrie? Hester Prynne? Ophelia? Maybe someone by Saul Bellow? Hey, what about Temple Drake?1 Although for a man your age she'd be a workout.‖ 42 ―French. I want to have an affair with a French lover.‖ 43 ―Nana2?‖
44 ―I don‘t want to have to pay for it.‖ 45 ―What about Natasha in War and Peace?‖
46 ―I said French. I know! What about Emma Bovary? That sounds to me perfect.‖
47 ―You got it, Kugelmass. Give me a holler when you‘ve had enough.‖ Persky tossed in a paperback copy of Flaubert‘s novel.
48 ―You sure this is safe?‖ Kugelmass asked as Persky began shutting the cabinet doors. 49 ―Safe. Is anything safe in this crazy world?‖ Persky rapped three times on the cabinet and then flung open the doors.
50 Kugelmass was gone. At the same moment, he appeared in the bedroom of Charles and Emma Bovary‘s house at Yonville. Before him was a beautiful woman, standing alone with her back turned to him as she folded some linen. I can't believe this, thought Kugelmass, staring at the doctor‘s ravishing wife. This is uncanny. I‘m here. It‘s her.
51 Emma turned in surprise. ―Goodness, you startled me,‖ she said. ―Who are you?‖ She spoke in the same fine English translation as the paperback.
52 It‘s simply devastating, he thought. Then, realizing that it was he whom she had addressed, he said, ―Excuse me. I‘m Sidney Kugelmass. I‘m from City College. A professor of humanities. C.C.N.Y.? Uptown. I-oh, boy!‖
53 Emma Bovary smiled flirtatiously and said, ―Would you like a drink? A glass of wine, perhaps?‖
54 She is beautiful, Kugelmass thought. What a contrast with the troglodyte3 who shared his bed! He felt a sudden impulse to take this vision into his arms and tell her she was the kind of woman he had dreamed of all his life.
55 ―Yes, some wine,\ 56 ―Charles is out for the day,‖ Emma said, her voice full of playful implication.
57 After the wine, they went for a stroll in the lovely French countryside. ―I‘ve always dreamed that some mysterious stranger would appear and rescue me from the monotony of this crass rural existence,‖ Emma said, clasping his hand. They passed a small church. ―I love what you have on,‖ 1
Sister Carrie, Hester Prynne, Ophelia and Temple Drake are beautiful troubled heroines in works by Theodore Dreiser, Nathaniel, Hawthorne, William Shakespeare, and William Faulkner, respectively. 2
Nana is the prostitute in Emile Zola‘s novel Nana. 3
troglodyte: n. (Anthropology & Ethnology) a cave dweller, esp. one of the prehistoric peoples thought to have lived in caves.
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