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Dear Editor,

I was surprised to read your recent article on the question of students’ part-time jobs. You appear to be making a lot of generalizations(归纳) on the basis of just one unfortunate incident (I assure you that not all young people who deliver newspapers are as foolish and dishonest as the two youths mentioned in your article).

The first point I would like to make is that there are many jobs teenagers can do which give them useful experience of the working world. They are brought into contact with a variety of people, often older, and are given experience of expresing themselves clearly and fluently. I am thinking here of jobs such as travel guides and shop assistants.

Another argument for schoolchildren and college students having holiday or weekend jobs is that many parents need the financial assistance. If we take, for example, a family in which the father is unemployed or perhaps a single-parent family on a low income, it seems logical and fair that a son or daughter should try to bring money into the family.

One further thing I want to say is that a lot of jobs for the young can be both fun for the people who do them and useful to the community. Young people who help in schools and hospials often get a great deal of pleasure and satisfaction as well as contributing something valuable to local society.

In conclusion, I would add that when I was a girl, my father said my teens were a time for books, hobbies and academic studies. Thinking back, I feel I would have learnt much more—about myself, other people and life in general—if he had allowed me to do a limited amount of real work. Certainly, when she is old enough, I shall encourage my own daughter to do so, rather than waste her time on soap operas and computer games.

Yours sincerely,

Margaret Williams (Mrs)

24. Why did Margaret write the letter to the editor?

A. To ask for some advice. B. To expres her support.

C. To show her thankfulness. D. To give a different opinion.

25. What was the editor’s attitude towards students’ part-time jobs?

A. Supportive. B. Indifferent. C. Opposed. D. Tolerant

26. Margaret believes that students’ part-time jobs ______.

A. help improve their speaking ability B. have a good influence on their studies

C. might cause higher unemployment D. usually offer them very little pay

27. When Margaret was a student, her father ______.

A. encouraged her to support herself