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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Unit 1 Active reading (1) / P3Looking for a job after university? First, get off the sofaMore than students left university this summer and many have no idea about the way to get a job. How tough should a parent be to galvanize them in these financially fraught times?今年夏天，超过65万名学生离开了大学，

2、很多人都不知道如何找到工作。在这个经济困难的时期，父母应该怎样严厉地激励他们呢?In July, you looked on as your handsome 21-year-old son, dressed in gown and mortarboard, proudly clutched his honors degree for his graduation photo. Those memories of forking out thousands of pounds a year so that he could eat well and go to the odd party, b

3、egan to fade. Until now.7月，你看着你21岁的儿子，穿着学士服，戴着学位帽，骄傲地拿着他的荣誉学位拍毕业照。那些为了吃得好、参加不定期的聚会而每年掏出几千英镑的记忆开始消失了。直到现在。As the summer break comes to a close and students across the country prepare for the start of a new term, you find that your graduate son is still spending his days slumped in front of the televi

4、sion, broken only by texting, Facebook and visits to the pub. This former scion of Generation Y has morphed overnight into a member of Generation Grunt. Will he ever get a job?当暑假即将结束，全国各地的学生都在为新学期的开始做准备时，你会发现，你毕业的儿子仍然整天窝在电视机前，只有发短信、上Facebook和泡酒吧。这位前Y世代的司祭盎一夜之间变成了咕哝世代的一员。他能找到工作吗?This is the scenario

5、 facing thousands of families. More than students left university this summer and most in these financially testing times have no idea what to do next. Parents revert to nagging; sons and daughters become rebels without a cause, aware that they need to get a job, but not sure how.这是成千上万家庭面临的情况。今年夏天，

6、超过65万名学生离开了大学，大多数人都处于经济困难时期，不知道下一步该做什么。父母又开始唠叨;儿女们毫无理由地成为叛逆者，他们知道自己需要找一份工作，但不知道如何找。Jack Goodwin, from Middlesex, graduated with a 2:1 in politics from Nottingham this summer. He walked into the university careers service and straight back out again; there was a big queue. He lived with five other bo

7、ys all of whom did the same. There was no pressure to find a job, even though most of the girls he knew had a clearer plan.来自米德尔塞克斯的杰克古德温今年夏天从诺丁汉大学政治专业以二等甲等成绩毕业。他走进了大学就业服务中心，然后又径直走了出去;队伍排得很长。他和另外五个男孩住在一起，他们都是这样做的。他没有找工作的压力，尽管他认识的大多数女孩都有更明确的计划。“I applied for a job as a political researcher, but got t

8、urned down,” he says. “They were paying $18000, which doesnt buy you much more than a tin of beans after rent, but they wanted people with experience or masters degrees. Then I applied for the Civil Service Fast Stream. I passed the exam, but at the interviews they accused me of being too detached a

9、nd talking in language that was too technocratic, which I didnt think possible, but obviously it is.” “我申请了一份政治研究员的工作，但遭到了拒绝，”他说。“他们付的是18000美元，这在租金后只能买到一罐豆子，但他们需要有经验或硕士学位的人。”然后我申请了公务员速成班。我通过了考试，但在面试时，他们指责我太超然，说的话太过技术官僚，我认为这是不可能的，但显然是可能的。”Since then he has spent the summer “hiding”. He can recount se

10、veral episodes of Traffic Cops and has seen more daytime television than is healthy. He talks to his friends about his aimless days and finds that most are in the same boat. One has been forced out to stack shelves by his parents. For the rest it is 9-to-5 “chilling” before heading to the pub. So ho

11、w about working behind the bar, to pay for those drinks? “I dont want to do bar work. I went to a comprehensive and I worked my backside off to bar work. I went to a comprehensive and I worked my backside off to go to a good university, where I worked really hard to get a good degree,” he says. “Now

12、 Im back at the same stage as those friends who didnt go to uni at all, who are pulling pints and doing dead-end jobs. I feel that Ive come full circle.”从那以后，他整个夏天都在“躲藏”。他能说出几集交警的故事，白天看的电视节目比平时多。他和他的朋友们谈论他漫无目的的日子，发现大多数人都是一样的。其中一个被父母逼上了书架。剩下的时间是朝九晚五的“寒意”，然后再去酒吧。那在吧台后面工作来付酒水钱怎么样?“我不想做酒吧工作。我去了一家综合学校，我去

13、了酒吧。我上了综合学校，为了上一所好大学，我埋头苦干，非常努力地工作，获得了一个好学位，”他说。“现在，我又回到了和那些根本没上过大学的朋友们一样的状态，做着无聊的工作。我觉得我又回到了原点。”Jacqueline Goodwin, his mother, defends him. She insist that he has tried to get a job, but having worked full-time since leaving school herself, she and her husband find it tricky to advise him on how t

14、o proceed. “I have always had to work,” she says. “Its difficult because when you have a degree, it opens new doors for you, or youd like to think that it does.”他的母亲杰奎琳古德温为他辩护。她坚持说，他曾试图找份工作，但她和丈夫发现很难给他提供如何继续下去的建议。“我一直都得工作，”她说。“这很困难，因为当你有了学位，它会为你打开一扇新的门，或者你会认为它会为你打开一扇门。”Although she is taking a soft

15、line with her son at the moment, she is clear that after an upcoming three-week trip to South America, his holiday from work will have to end. He may even have to pay rent and contribute to the household bills.虽然目前她对儿子的态度比较温和，但她很清楚，在即将到来的三周南美之旅后，他的假期将不得不结束。他甚至可能不得不付房租和支付家庭账单。“Theyve got to grow up a

16、t some point. Weve finished paying for university, so a little bit of help back is good,” she says. “The South America trip is the cutoff point. When he comes back therell be Christmas work if nothing else.”“他们总有一天会长大。我们已经付完了大学学费，所以能得到一点帮助是件好事，”她说。“南美之旅是一个转折点。当他回来的时候，就算没有别的事，也会有圣诞节的工作。”Gael Lindenfi

17、eld, a psychotherapist and the author of The Emotional Healing Strategy, says that the Goodwin parents have struck exactly the right note. The transition from university to a job is tough for parents and children: Crucially they must balance being positive and understanding with not making life too

18、comfortable for their offspring.情感治愈策略的作者、心理治疗师盖尔林登菲尔德(Gael Lindenfield)说，古德温的父母说到点子上了。从大学到工作的转变对父母和孩子来说都是艰难的:关键是他们必须在保持积极和理解与不让孩子生活太舒适之间取得平衡。“The main job for the parents is to be there because if they start advising them what to do, that is when the conflict starts. If you have contacts, by all me

19、ans use those,” she says. “But a lot of parents get too soft. Put limits on how much money you give them, and ask them to pay rent or contribute to the care of the house or the pets. Carry on life as normal and dont allow them to abuse your bank account or sap your reserves of emotional energy.”“父母的

20、主要工作是在那里，因为如果他们开始建议他们做什么，冲突就开始了。如果你有联系人，一定要利用他们。“但很多家长太软弱了。限制你给他们的钱，让他们付房租或帮忙照顾房子或宠物。过正常的生活，不要让他们滥用你的银行账户或消耗你的情感能量储备。”Paying for career consultations, train fares to interviews or books are good things; being too pushy is not. But while parents should be wary of becoming too soft, Lindenfield advise

21、s them to tread sympathetically after a job setback for a few days or even weeks depending on the scale of the knock. After that the son or daughter needs to be nudged firmly back into the saddle.为职业咨询、去面试的火车票或书籍付费是件好事;过于强势就不一样了。虽然父母们应该小心不要变得太软弱，但林登菲尔德建议他们在工作受挫几天甚至几周后要表现出同情的态度这取决于打击的程度。在那之后，儿子或女儿需要被

22、坚定地推回到马鞍上。Boys are more likely to get stuck at home. Lindenfield believes that men are often better at helping their sons, nephews, or friends sons than are mothers and sisters. Men have a different way of handling setbacks than women, she says, so they need the male presence to talk it through.男孩更容

23、易被困在家里。林登菲尔德认为，与母亲和姐妹相比，男性通常更善于帮助他们的儿子、侄子或朋友的儿子。她说，男性处理挫折的方式与女性不同，所以他们需要男性的存在来解决问题。As for bar work, she is a passionate advocate: Its a great antidote to graduate apathy. It just depends on how you approach it. Lindenfield, who found her first job as an aerial photographic assistant through bar work

24、, says it is a great networking opportunity and certainly more likely to get you a job than lounging in front of the TV.至于在酒吧工作，她是一位热情的倡导者:这是消除毕业生冷漠情绪的良方。这取决于你如何去做。林登菲尔德的第一份工作是在酒吧做航拍助理。“The same goes for shelf-stacking. You will be spotted if youre good at it. If youre bright and cheerful and are po

25、lite to the customers, youll soon get moved on. So think of it as an opportunity; people who are successful in the long run have often got shelf-stacking stores,” she says.堆货架也是一样。如果你擅长，你会被发现的。如果你聪明开朗，对顾客有礼貌，你很快就会得到提升。所以把它当作一个机会;从长远来看，那些成功的人通常都有可以堆放货架的商店，”她说。Your son or daughter may not want to foll

26、ow Hollywood stars such as Whoopi Goldberg into applying make-up to corpses in a mortuary, or guarding nuclear power plants like Bruce Wills, but even Bard Pitt had to stand outside the El Pollo Loco restaurant chain in a giant chicken suit at one time in his life. None of them appears the poorer fo

27、r these experiences.你的儿子或女儿可能不想跟着乌比戈德堡到化妆等好莱坞明星在太平间的尸体,或保护核电站像布鲁斯遗嘱,但即使是吟游诗人皮特不得不站在一个巨大的连锁餐厅提供墨西哥炸鸡外鸡服一次。他们都没有因为这些经历而显得更穷。Unit 1 Active reading (2) / P11If you ask meIf you ask me, real life is not all its cracked up to be. Twelve years at school and three years at university, teachers banging on ab

28、out opportunities in the big wide world beyond our sheltered life as students, and what do I find?如果你问我，我觉得现实生活并不像人们说的那么美好。12年的学校生活和3年的大学生活，老师们不停地在我们作为学生的庇护生活之外的广阔世界里寻找机会，我发现了什么?Try as I might to stay cheerful, all I ever get is hassle, sometimes with people (especially boys when will they grow up?)

29、, but mostly with money. Its just so expensive out here! Everyone wants a slice off you. The Inland Revenue wants to deduct income tax, the bank manager wants repayments on my student loan, the landlord wants the rent, gas, water and electricity, and my mobile bills keep coming in, and all thats bef

30、ore Ive had anything to eat. And then some bright spark calls me out of the blue, asking if Im interested in buying a pension. At this rate, I wont even last till the end of the year, let alone till Im 60.尽管我尽量保持愉快，但我得到的只是麻烦，有时与人(尤其是男孩他们什么时候才能长大?)，但主要是与钱。这里太贵了!每个人都想从你身上分一杯羹。国税局想要扣除所得税，银行经理想要偿还我的学生贷款

31、，房东想要房租、煤气、水和电，我的移动账单不断地寄来，所有这些都是在我吃东西之前发生的。然后某个聪明的人突然打电话给我，问我是否有兴趣买养老金。照这个速度，我活不到年底，更别说活到60岁了。I didnt really want to go out to work just yet. I mean, I wasnt a dropout and I knew Id have to some day. According to any number of people “lifes not a picnic”, “theres no such thing as a free lunch”. But

32、 given that Id got a good degree, I thought Id like to go on to get my masters. Actually, I had my eye on the course at the London School of Economics (LSE). Top school, very good for my CV. But I talked to my mum about it, and she said she couldnt afford to support me any more. I kind of understand

33、 it, and not just because my degree is in economics. Shed worked hard for 15 years to give me an education. My dad wasnt around most of the time, and when he was, he didnt have any money. Hed spent it gambling on the dogs or down the pub. So it came to the point when I just agreed with Mum, and bowe

34、d myself towards the inevitable.我还真不想出去工作。我不是辍学生，我知道总有一天我会失学的。许多人认为“生活不是野餐”，“天下没有免费的午餐”。但是考虑到我已经获得了一个不错的学位，我想继续攻读硕士学位。事实上，我一直在关注伦敦经济学院(LSE)的课程。最好的学校，非常适合我的简历。但是我和我妈妈谈过了，她说她再也养不起我了。我能理解，不仅仅是因为我的学位是经济学。她努力工作了15年才让我接受教育。我爸爸大部分时间都不在身边，即使在他身边，他也没有钱。他把钱花在赌博上，买狗，或者去酒吧。所以，当我同意妈妈的观点，并向不可避免的事情低头时，事情就发生了。If yo

35、u ask me, and despite everything you hear, fortunately there are some really nice people out there. Take Mike, for example. When I left university, what I thought was my mum would feel obliged to look after me if I returned home. So I packed up my belongings and went to London to get a job. I wanted

36、 something in finance and investments, because, you know, maybe with a job like that, I could use my degree. But by that time, there were no jobs left, and I didnt really want to end up in some boring office, doing photocopies and making the tea.如果你问我，不管你听到什么，幸运的是，有一些非常好的人。以迈克为例。当我离开大学时，我以为如果我回家，我妈妈

37、会觉得有义务照顾我。所以我收拾行李去伦敦找工作。我想学金融和投资，因为，你知道，也许有这样的工作，我可以利用我的学位。但那个时候，已经没有工作了，我真的不想在无聊的办公室里，复印文件，泡茶。Go anywhere you like in London and theres usually a good pub. The day I realized no one in the city was going to offer me a job, I went into The Salisbury on Leadenhall Street for a drink and something to

38、eat. Mike the landlord was at the bar, pouring pints with one hand, making sandwiches with the other, and washing the glasses all at the same time its true, he really did seem to have three hands. He also seemed to know everyone, and greeted the regulars by name, getting their drinks ready with the

39、question, “The usual today, is it?” I thought he looked kind of cool he was doing what he did best, serving thirsty clients, and no one did it better. So I went up to him and asked him whether there was a job for me.在伦敦，你喜欢去哪儿就去哪儿，而且通常都有一家不错的酒吧。当我意识到这个城市没有人会给我提供工作的那一天，我去了位于利登霍尔街的索尔兹伯里，喝了一杯，吃了点东西。酒吧老

40、板迈克正在酒吧里，一手倒品脱酒，一手做三明治，一手洗杯子的确，他看上去确实有三只手。他似乎也认识所有的人，他直呼老顾客的名字，为他们准备饮料，并问他们:“今天还是老样子吗?”“我觉得他看起来很酷他在做自己最擅长的事情，为口渴的客户服务，没有人比他做得更好。于是我找到他，问他是否有我的工作。Well, to cut a long story short, I started work in the pub one Friday lunchtime. It was quite demanding work, but I liked it. People seemed to find me amus

41、ing and it made me feel better too. There was one middle-aged regular in a suit who always had a half of bitter and a ham and pickle sandwich, with the crusts cut off. When I saw Tony coming, I tried to have his lunch ready for him even before he asked. He was another one of those really nice people

42、.嗯，长话短说，一个星期五的午餐时间，我开始在酒吧工作。这是一项要求很高的工作，但我喜欢它。人们似乎觉得我很有趣，这也让我感觉好多了。有一个穿西装的中年常客，总是吃半份苦啤酒和火腿泡菜三明治，连面包皮都切掉了。他是另一个非常好的人。If you ask me, spending money when you dont have any is dead easy. I began to think about how Id spend my first months wages. The flat where I was staying was expensive, and I just abo

43、ut had enough to cover the first months substantial was expensive, and I just about had enough money over to treat myself to something. Why not get a CD or maybe a plant to cheer up the flat? I thought.如果你问我，我会说，在你没有钱的时候花钱简直是易如反掌。我开始考虑如何花掉第一个月的工资。我住的那套公寓很贵，我的钱只够支付第一个月的生活费，而且我还有足够的钱来犒劳自己。为什么不买一张CD或者一

44、盆植物来让你的公寓焕然一新呢?我想。It was my birthday on payday. Apart from Mike and Tony, I didnt have any friends in London. Seeing that I didnt have a boyfriend either, you can understand why I began to feel sorry for myself. So I ordered myself some flowers, and asked for them to be sent with a little card, sayi

45、ng “With all my love, Anon.” The highlight of my birthday would be the confused look in the florists eyes when he delivered them.发薪日那天是我的生日。除了迈克和托尼，我在伦敦没有任何朋友。既然我也没有男朋友，你就能理解为什么我开始自怨自艾了。于是我给自己订了一些花，并要求送花的人送上一张小卡片，上面写着“我爱你，不久”。Later that week, Tony came in as usual and sat down at the bar. “Whats wro

46、ng with you? Wheres that smile gone today?” I talked to him about well, about pretty well everything, money, the masters, my birthday, the lot. He sympathized with me.那个星期的晚些时候，托尼像往常一样进来，坐在酒吧里。“你怎么了?”今天你的笑容哪里去了?“我跟他谈了嗯，差不多谈了所有的事情，钱、主人的生日、我的生日等等。他很同情我。Tony got up from his stool, and went over to talk

47、 to some of the others. Remember: The Salisbury is right in the heart of the City, so all the customers were in banking or insurance or the stock market. Next day he turned up with cheques to the value of $20000. “This is a loan for you to set up your business. The only collateral you have is my tru

48、st in you that one day, youll pay us back- if you can. And if you cant, too bad, thats the finance business for you. But I think you will.”托尼从凳子上站起来，走过去和其他人交谈。记住:索尔兹伯里就在市中心，所以所有的客户都在银行、保险或股票市场。第二天他带着价值两万美元的支票来了。“这是你创业的贷款。你唯一的抵押品就是我对你的信任，总有一天，你会还我们钱的如果你可以的话。如果你做不到，那太糟糕了，这就是你的金融业务。但我想你会的。”I didnt say anything for fear that I was going to cry. What were the odds on anyone being so nice?我什么也没说，怕自己会哭。谁能对我这么好?And the flowers? I redirected them to my mum, and they arrived for her on my birthday. She deserved them, dont you think?和花吗?我把它们转寄给了我妈妈，它们在我生日那天到了。她活该