3. Teacher Needed

For private language school. Teaching experience unnecessary.

Apply to: The Director of Studies, Instant Language Ltd, 279 Canal Street, Boston.

C. Unable to speak a foreign language. D. Not having college education.

62. Ben, aged 22, fond of swimming and driving, has just graduated from a college. Which

job might be given to him?

A. Driving for Capes Taxis. B. Working for Southern Airlines.

C. Teaching at Instant Language Ltd. D. None of the three.

63. What prevents Mary, aged 25, becoming an air hostess for international flights?

A. She once broke a traffic law and was fined.

B. She can’t speak Japanese very well.

C. She has never worked as an air hostess before.

D. She doesn’t feel like working long hours flying abroad.

64. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the three advertisements?

A. Marriage. B. Male or female. C. Education. D. Working

experience.

(B)

A new period is coming. Call it what you will: the service industry, the information age,

the knowledge society. It all translates to a great change in the way we work. Already we’re

partly there, the percentage of people who earn their living by making things has fallen

sharply in the Western World. Today the majority of jobs in America, Europe and Japan

(two thirds or more are in many of these countries) are in the service industry, and the

number is on the rise. More women are in the work force than ever before. There are more

part-time jobs. More people are self-employed. But the breath of the great change can’t be

measured by numbers alone, because it also is giving rise to new way of thinking about the

nature of work itself. Long-held opinions about jobs and careers, the skills needed to

succeed, even the relation between workers and employers—all these are being doubted.

We have only to look behind us to get some sense of what may lie ahead. No one

looking ahead 20 years possibly could have seen the ways in which a single invention, the

chip(芯片), would change our world thanks to its uses in personal computers, and factory

equipment. Tomorrow’s achievements in biotechnology or even some still unimagined

technology could produce a similar wave of great changes. But one thing is certain:

information and knowledge will become even more important, and the people who own it,

whether they work in factories or services, will have the advantage and produce the wealth.

Computer knowledge will become as basic a requirement as the ability to read and write.

The ability to deal with problems by making use of information instead of performing

regular tasks will be valued above all else. If you look ahead 10 years, information service

will be leading the way. It will be the way you do your job.