As society advances and basic needs are most often being met, things that were not considered important in the past have taken priority(優(yōu)先). In the past, people could easily get a job and progress pretty well, as long as they were hard-working; education was important but not as crucial(關系重大) as it is today.
Nowadays, just as clothes are important to first impressions, degree is important to a person’s first job interview or even a job with a good salary. Although experience is important to survive in any trade or profession, the first thing that companies look for is that piece of paper before looking at one’s experience.
A passport into the world of any profession is what having a degree means today, especially for professions that have need of certification and pay well, such as architects, doctors, lawyers, and teachers.
That piece of paper, the degree, is also a passport to jobs in top or middle management in any company, especially so for multi-national corporations(跨國公司). Having a degree opens up opportunities that one would not have had if one did not have any kind of degree. A degree simply proves that one has gone through the necessary training and understanding of how to carry out a job.
Although there are many that may say having a degree may not necessarily equal to success, it would most definitely help any person achieve success in shorter and easier steps. Success cannot simply be a result of hard work and/or depending on one’s experience or degree alone; it is the art and knowledge of how to work that determines one’s success. Therefore, it should not be for the sake to get a degree, but the quality of the degree and experiences that one can learn from that matter as well.
【小題1】 What would be the best title for this passage?

A．People used to be hard-working
B．How important is the degree?　　
C．How can we enter the top management?
D．Degree surely leads to success
【小題2】Why does the author mention clothes in the second paragraph?
A．To prove the importance of the first impression.
B．To stress the importance of job interviews.　　
C．To show the importance of clothes.
D．To explain the importance of degree.
【小題3】What does the underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refer to?
A．Having a degree
B．Success
C．Necessary training
D．Having an opportunity


【小題1】B
【小題2】D
【小題3】A

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