事命題閱讀理解：文科專業(yè)又如何,特長和興趣才是選擇大學專業(yè)的關鍵PursuingaUselessDegree

PursuingaUselessDegreeLITERATUREl5T。RV文科專業(yè)又如何，特長和興趣才是選擇大學專業(yè)的關鍵。ATUNIVERSITY,whenItoldpeopleIwasstudyingforahistorydegree,theresponsewasalmostalwaysthesame:"Youvanttobeateacher?No,ajournalist."Oh.Butyou'renotmajoringincommunications?therewasnInthedayswhenauniversityeducationwasaprivilege（特權），perhapstherewasn'ttheassumptionthatadegreehadtobeaspringboarddirectlyintoacareer.Thosedaysarelonggone.Today,adegreeisallbutanecessityforthejobmarket,onethatmorethanhalvesyourchancesofbeingunemployed.Still,thataloneisnoguaranteeofajob-andyetwe'repayingmoreandmoGiventhosecosts,mostofuswanttomaximiz（e?最大化）thatinvestment一andthatcanleadtoaplug-and-playtypeofapproachtohighereducation.Wanttobeajournalist?Studyjournalism,we'retold.Alawyer?Pursuepre-law.ftotallysure?GointoSTEM-youcanbecomeanengineeroranITexpert.Andnomatterwhatyoudo,forgetthehumanities（人文學科）,suchashistory,philosophyandlanguages.It'struethatthehumanitiescomewithahigherriskofunemployment,buttheriskisslighterthanyouwouldimagine.ForyoungpeopleintheU.S.,theunemploymentrateofthosewithhumanitiesdegreesisfourpercent,justalittlemorethanthatofengineeringdegreeholders.Lowersalariesmaynotbecausedbythedegreeitselfeither.Thegenderpaygappersistsinthehumanities,whosegraduatesaremorelikelytobefemale.IsitanywonderthenthatEnglishteacherstendtomakelessthanengineers?AccordingtoLinkedIn'researchonthemostsought-afterjobskillsbyemployersfor2019,theabilitytocommunicateandgetalongwithpeople,tounderstandwhat'sonotherpeople'sminds,andtodofull-strengthcriticalanal：wereallvaluedandappreciated.Itgoeswithoutsayingthatyoucanbeanexcellentcommunicatorandcriticalthinkerwithoutahumanitiesdegree.Andanygooduniversityeducation,notjustoneinEnglishorpsychology,shouldsharpentheseabilitiesfurther.Butfewcoursesofstudyarequiteasheavyonreading,writing,speakingandcriticalthinkingasthehumanities—whetherthat'bysdebatingotherstudentsinaseminar研討會）,writingathesispaper（論文）oranalyzingpoetry.ThewholequestionofwhetherastudentshouldchooseSTEMversusthehumanitiesmightbemisguidedtobeginwith.Theheadlinesmostofusseedonhelp.Whateverastudentpursuesinuniversity,itmustbesomethingthattheyarenotonlygoodat,butinterestedin.Evenifitmeanspursuinga”us——likeoneinhumanities.（選自SciencemagTheauthor'sexperiencewascitedinParagraph1toshowthatahistorymajorcanworkasajournalistauniversityeducationisnolongerenjoyedbyasmallgroupofpeoplemostpeoplehaveamisunderstandingofthehumanitiesmoststudentsaremoremoney-orientedthaneverbeforeAccordingtothearticle,thehumanitiesare“uselessbecausegraduatesaremorelikelyto.A.①②B.②③C.③④D.①④followanarrowcareerpathfacearelativelyhighriskofunemploymentreceivelowaveragesalariesseeawideninggenderpaygapItCANNOTbeinferredfromthearticlethathumanitiesmajorstendtodowellin.exchangingtheirideaswithotherpeoplefightingoffcompetitioninthejobmarketsharingotherpeople'sfeelingsthinkingoutsidetheboxTheauthor'spurposeinwritingthearticlewasto.presentreaderswiththefactthatuniversityeducationhasgreatlychangedinthepastcenturyhelpreadersproperlyunderstandtherelationshipbetweenuniversitydegreesandoccupationsremindreaderstochooseamajortheyreallyenjoywithoutcaringtoomuchaboutfinancialsuccessofferreadersadviceonhowtostandoutfromtherestwhilelookingforjobsinthefuture譯文：在大學里，當我告訴別人我正在學習歷史學位時，回答幾乎總是一樣：“你想當老師嗎？”不，記者“哦。但是您不是主修通信嗎？”在大學教育是特權的時代，也許沒有一種假設認為學位必須是直接進入職業(yè)的跳板。那些日子已經(jīng)一去不回。如今，學位幾乎是就業(yè)市場所必需的，這一學位將失業(yè)的機會減半。不過，僅此一項并不能保證能找到一份工作，但我們?yōu)榇烁冻隽嗽絹碓蕉嗟腻X。鑒于這些費用，我們大多數(shù)人都希望最大程度地投資，而這可能導致即插即用的高等教育方式。想成為一名記者嗎？我們被告知要學習新聞學。律師？遵守法律。不太確定？進入STEM可以成為工程師或IT專家。而且，無論做什么，都忘記了人文學科，例如歷史，哲學和語言。的確，人文學科面臨著更高的失業(yè)風險，但這種風險要比您想象的要小。對于美國的年輕人來說，人文學位的失業(yè)率是4%,僅比工程學學位持有者的失業(yè)率高一點。較低的工資也可能不是學位本身造成的。在人文學科中，性別薪資差距仍然存在，其畢業(yè)生更有可能是女性。難道英語老師的收入往往低于工程師嗎？根據(jù)LinkedIn對2019年雇主最搶手的工作技能的研究，與人溝通和相處的能力，了解別人的想法以及進行全面的批判性分析的能力都受到重視和贊賞。不用說，如果沒有人文學位，你可以成為一名出色的溝通者和批判性思想家。任何良好的大學教育，而不僅僅是英語或心理學方面的教育，都應進一步提高這些能力。但是，很少有學習課程像人文學科那樣，在閱讀,寫作，口語和批判性思維方面如此繁重-無論是通過在研討會上討論其他學生，撰寫論文還是分析詩歌。一個學生是否應該選擇STE而非人文學科的整個問題可能一開始就被誤導了。我們大多數(shù)人看到的頭條新聞沒有幫助。無論學生在大學追求什么,都必須不僅是他們擅長，而且是對他們感興趣。即使這意味著要追求“無用的”學位，就像人文科學一樣。單詞：persist^v.ifsth.badpersists,itcontinuestoexistorhappenB續(xù)存在或發(fā)生e.g.Youmustseeadoctorifthepainpersists.sharpen^v.toimprovesth.sothatitisuptothenecessarystandard,quality,etC.1高,使改進e.g.Thecoursewillhelpstudentssharpentheircomputerskills.analyzev.toexamineorthinkaboutsth.carefully,inordertounderstan