2011年6月18日六级完形真题(节选并改选自《英国卫报》The Guardian, Anna Tims ,Saturday 15 May 2010 )
Organised volunteering and work experience has long been a vital companion to university degree courses. Usually it is left to__62__to deduce the potential from a list of extracurricular adventures on a graduate's resume, __63__ now the University of Bristol has launched an award to formalise the achievements of students who__ 64__ time to activities outside their courses. Bristol PLuS aims to boost students in an increasingly__ 65__ jobs market by helping them acquire work and life skills alongside __66__ qualifications.
"Our students are a pretty active bunch but we found that they didn't __67__ appreciate the value of what they did __68__ the lecture hall," says Jeff Goodman, director of careers and employability at the university. "Employers are much more __69__ than they used to be. They used to look for __70__ and saw it as part of their job to extract the value of an applicant's skills. Now they want students to be able to explain why those skills are __71__ to the job."
Students who sign __72__ for the award will be expected to complete 50 hours of work experience or __73__ work, attend four workshops on employability skills, including interview techniques, take part in an intensive skills-related activity __74__ , crucially, write a summary of the skills they have gained. __75__ efforts will gain an Outstanding Achievement Award. Those who __76__ best on the sports field can take the Sporting PluS Award which fosters employer-friendly sports accomplishments.
The experience does not have to be __77__ organised. "We're not just interested in easily identifiable skills," says Goodman. " __78__ ,one student took the lead in dealing with a difficult landlord and so __79__ negotiation skills. We try to make the experience relevant to individual lives.
Goodman hopes the __80__ will enable active students to fill in any gaps in their experience and encourage their less-proactive __81__ to take up activities outside their academic area of work.
62.D)employers
63.B)but
64.B)devote
65.B)competitive
66.C)academic
67.C)necessarily
68.A)outside
69.D)demanding
70.D)potential
71.A)relevant
72.D)up
73.D)voluntary
74.D)and
75.B)Exceptional
76.A)perform
77.C)formally
78.A)For instance
79.A)demonstrated
80.C)scheme
81.D)peers |
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