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The US Department of Labour statistics show that there is an oversupply of college-trained workers. And this oversupply is ___50_____ . Already there have been more than enough teachers; engineers, physicists, aerospace experts and other specialists. Yet, colleges and graduate schools continue every year to ____51____ highly trained people to compete for jobs that aren’t there. The result is that graduates cannot enter the ___52_____ for which they were trained, and they must take temporary jobs which do not require a college degree and these temporary jobs are most probably becoming ___53______ ones in the severe labor markets.

____54_____ , there is a great need for skilled workers of all sorts : carpenters, electricians, mechanics, plumbers, TV repairmen. These people have more work than they can handle. As a result , their ____55____ are often higher than those of college graduates. The old concept that white-collar workers make a better living than blue-collar workers no longer holds true. The law of supply and demand now is ___56_____ the skilled workmen.

The reason for this situation is the traditional myth that ___57_____ is a passport to prosperous future. A large part of American society matches success in life ____58_____ with a college degree. Parents begin brainwashing their children with this myth before they are out of grade school . High school teachers play their part by acting as if high school education were a preparation for ___59______ rather than for life. Whether they want to go to college or not doesn’t matter: everybody should go to college , so of course they must go . Under this pressure, the kids have to go to college, but, unfortunately, most kids ___60______ in the starting line. In spite of this, every year college enrollments go up and up, and more and more graduates are ___61______ for the kinds of jobs available to them.

One result of this emphasis on a college education is that many people go to college where they do not __62___ . Half of the sixty percent of high school graduates who enter college do not graduate with their class. Many of them drop out within the first year because of their __63____ academic performance. Some ___64_____ for two or three and then join the other students who drop out. It’s high time we stopped to rethink our education system.

50. A. declining	B. increasing	C. dropping	D. decreasing
51. A. turn out	B. take over	C. lay off	D. come across
52. A. universities	B. courses	C. classrooms	D. professions
53. A. profitable	B. favorite	C. permanent	D. excellent
54. A. All in all	B. For the time being	C. On the other hand	D. In the first place
55. A. abilities	B. expectations	C. ambitions	D. incomes
56. A. in favor of	B. useful to	C. superior to	D. responsible for
57. A. profession-training	B. college degree	C. working skill	D. social ability
58. A. hardly	B. gradually	C. equally	D. curiously
59. A. labor	B. work	C. graduation	D. college
60. A. fail	B. remain	C. hesitate	D. pause
61. A. under-estimated	B. over-educated	C. wrongly-assessed	D. properly-trained
62. A. stay	B. enroll	C. belong	D. pay
63. A. admirable	B. successful	C. outstanding	D. unsatisfactory
64. A. struggle on	B. break down	C. give up	D. call off