雅思英语阅读经典模拟题(编辑修改稿)

雅思英语阅读经典模拟题(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

olitical parties, which claim to offer a more balanced swag of policies, often based around one major current issue. Thus, for instance, at the last election there was the No Aircraft Noise Parry, 中国最大的管理资源中心 (大量免费资源共享 ) 第 9 页 共 21 页 popular in city areas, and the Green Party, which is almost solely concerned with environmental issues. TRUE／ FALSE／ NOT GIVEN is support of the concept of a welfare society are costly. usually vote for the party they supported early in life. Labor Party was formed by the trade unions. groups are only found within the Labor Party. Liberal Party was formed after the Labor Party. societies invariably bee bankrupt. to the author, theories do not always work in practice. Australian voters are confused about who to vote for. NoAircraftNoise Party is only popular in the city. smaller parties are only concerned about the environment. Practice 5 than ever before. Nowadays, without a qualification from a reputable school or university, the odds of landing that plum job advertised in the paper are considerably shortened. Moreover, 中国最大的管理资源中心 (大量免费资源共享 ) 第 10 页 共 21 页 one39。 s present level of education could fall well short of future the need to obtain increasingly higher qualifications. In the majority of cases, the urge to upgrade is no longer the result of an insatiable thirst for knowledge. The pressure is ing from within the workplace to pete with ever more qualified job applicants, and in many occupations one must now battle with colleagues in the reshuffle for the position one already holds. concept. Wealthy parents have always been willing to spend the vast amounts of extra money necessary to send their children to schools with a perceived educational edge. Working adults have long attended night schools and refresher courses. Competition for employment has been around since the curse of working for a living began. Is the present situation so very different to that of the past? sal and from without as well as within. A student at secondary school receiving low grades is no longer as easily accepted by his or her peers as 中国最大的管理资源中心 (大量免费资源共享 ) 第 11 页 共 21 页 was once the case. Similarly, in the workplace, unless employees are engaged in parttime study, they may be frowned upon by their employers and peers and have difficulty even standing still. In fact, in these cases, the expectation is for careers to go backwards and seem to be laudable。 a positive response to the exhortation by a former Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, for australia to bee the `clever country39。 . Yet there are serious ramifications according to at least one educational psychologist. Dr Brendan Gatsby has caused some controversy in academic circles by suggesting that a bias towards what he terms `paper39。 excellence might cause more problems than it is supposed to solve. Gatsby raises a number of issues that affect the resulting in abnormally high stress levels in both students at secondary school and adults studying after working hours. Secondly, skills which might be more relevant to the undertaking of a sought_after job are being overlooked by employers interviewing candidates without qualifications on paper. These two areas of 中国最大的管理资源中心 (大量免费资源共享 ) 第 12 页 共 21 页 concern for the individual are causing physical and emotional stress respectively. udinal changes within society to the exalted role education now plays in determining how the spoils of working life are distributed. Individuals of all ages are being driven by social pressures to achieve academic success solely for moary considerations instead of for the joy of enlightenment. There is the danger that some universities are being degree factories with an attendant drop in standards. Furthermore, our education system may be rewarding doggedness above creativity。 the very thing Australians have been encouraged to the most undesirable effect of this academic paper chase, Gatsby says,is the disadvantage that `user pays39。 higher education confers on the poor, who invariably lly, although there is agreement that learning can cause stress, Gatsby39。 s ments regarding university standards have been roundly criticised as alarmist by most educationists who point out that, by any standard of measurement, Australia39。 s education system overall, at both secondary and tertiary levels, is equal to that of any in the world.。