星火英語(yǔ)專業(yè)八級(jí)考試易考范文背誦50篇 2 Are Nowadays College Graduates Not as Competent as Before？

[00:00.57]Topic 2 Are Nowadays College Graduates Not as Competent as Before? [00:07.42]As an economic rule goes, when supply outweighs demand, [00:11.18]the price decreases. [00:13.07]The same seems true for the current situation for college graduates. [00:17.64]Since 1999, [00:19.17]the central government has implemented the Grand College Enrollment Plan, [00:23.37]with the total number of college graduates [00:25.59]on the increase in the following years. [00:28.35]But the boomed economy does not provide enough jobs [00:31.40]for those graduates coming out at a time. [00:33.79]Therefore, [00:35.21]many people reason that college graduates are not [00:37.88] as competent as before [00:40.01]for many of them have difficulties in finding jobs. [00:43.30]But I disagree with this conclusion. [00:45.44]Firstly, admittedly, [00:47.33]there are some college graduates who are not competent, [00:50.69]but these students can not represent all the students. [00:54.31]Due to the Grand College Enrollment Plan, [00:57.02]more and more high school students have access to the higher education. [01:01.50]Inevitably, the standard has been lowered; [01:04.24]otherwise, university can not admit so many applicants. [01:09.04]While those smart students in high schools [01:11.10]are more likely to have excellent performance, [01:13.97]other not-so-good students would have difficulties in college learning. [01:18.89]As a result, [01:20.11]those graduates with bad performance in college can not [01:23.46]demonstrate the value of higher learning to the society [01:28.00]and hence they gradually form the incompetent image of college graduates. [01:32.43]Secondly, [01:33.60]those who hold this negative opinion [01:35.55]do not take the social context into consideration. [01:39.12]As is known, [01:40.30]in the period when China carried out planned economic policies, [01:44.08]college graduates did not need to [01:45.76]worry about their jobs, [01:47.99]for “iron-bowls” waited for them after graduation. [01:51.20]But after the reform of higher education, [01:54.15]college graduates have to find jobs for themselves. [01:58.00]When hundreds of thousands of graduates compete [02:00.19]for a limited number of job vacancies, [02:02.78]there are inevitably many who can not procure ideal jobs. [02:06.77]Besides, [02:07.85]employment is always influenced by global and national economy. [02:11.36]When economy slows down, [02:13.24]the corporate world would not recruit as many employees as before. [02:18.35]For example, in 2009, many college graduates, [02:22.30]from both prestigious universities and less-known universities, [02:25.85]have difficulties in hunting jobs. [02:28.89]In this sense, [02:29.86]it is not college graduates that are incompetent, [02:33.10]instead, it is the social context that is unfavorable to college graduates. [02:38.54]As factors combine to lead to a result, [02:41.29]one can not simply reach conclusions without [02:43.82] taking various factors into account. [02:46.68]Otherwise, one would make reductionist mistakes. [02:50.25]In this case, those who think college students are not [02:53.27]as competent as before have made this kind of mistake. [02:56.90]They just attribute college graduates’ difficulties [02:59.81]in finding jobs to their incompetence, [03:02.42]without exploring the social and economic situations.

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