阅读理解Education as a career or a job
Do you want to become a teacher? If you do, then you should recognise that in England, the US and other Western countries, the term •teacher' covers a wide range of jobs which can be seen as forming an occupational hierarchy ranging from high status, high income careers to lower paid positions.
At all levels of education, university, school and kindergarten, there are a mixture of well paid, secure careers with prornotional prospects and casual jobs with no prospects. In education, if a job is a secure one, it is called tenured. If it is casual work, it is called non-tenured. Non-tenured jobs in education are paid well whilst the person is working; but out of the semester, i. e. for twelve or fourteen weeks of the year, the worker gets no employment. The tenured teacher or lecturer gets paid for every week of the year, even over the long school or university holidays. They also get extra payments that the non-tenured people do not receive. For example, they receive contributions from their employer that go towards their superannuation fund. They also get paid if they become ill or need maternity leave. When the teacher or lecturer is tenured, she or he is regarded as having a career, but the non-tenured worker is often regarded as just having a job.
The level of academic qualification and the extent of teaching experience will largely determine where a person is placed in the teaching hierarchy. However, in England now the government is asking universities to be more market-oriented and to plan research pmjects and create courses that will sell on the open market. Now that universities in England are o moving toward a more market oriented status, they are trying to find ways to save money and there is great pressure to employ more lecturers on a casual not a tenured basis.
Why do people want to become lecrurers or teachers? There is a lot of in the study of occupational choice. Many occupations have been studied to determine why people chose a particular occupation. In education, two general findings emerged: some people feel that they have a mission to teach and want to be a successful teacher, whereas others have a purely instrumental approach. An instrumental approach means that teacbing is chosen not to fulfill a lifetime ambition but just as way of earning a living. This instrumental approach is likely to develop with the casuälisation of education.
判断正误:Reporting sales figures
After a slow start at the beginning of the year when sales started out at $ 9 million and rose to $ 10 million for the month of January, there was a slight increase in February when sales went up to $ 14. 5m. Then in March we had a dramatic increase when sates shot up to a staggering $ 34m. This was after the big Trade Fair in Hong Kong, where we managed to promote our new products and capturé the SE Asin market: The-increase continued in April when sales peaked at $ 38. 5m. There was slight fall for the month of May, which was only to be expected after the rush of interest after Hong Kong, and figures hit the $ 30m. mark. They seem to stabilise there, as the June figures were much the same at $ 31. 4m. We have every to expect them to continue at this rate for the next few munths, but our target for the end of the year is to chase the $ 40m+ mark with a very aggressive marketing policy over the summer and the autumn.
16. The product under discussion is not stated.
17. The year started with a rush.
18. January saw a decline in sales.
19. In February sales declined slightly.
20. In March sales reached $34m.
21. The Hong Kong Trade Fair made little effect on sales.
22. In May the sales figures exceeded those of March.
23. The June figures were similar to the May figures.
24. If the business reaches $ 40 +, the target for the end of the year will have been reached.
25. There would be more ups than down in a chart of the January to June' figures.
某电化厂液氯工段发生液氯钢瓶爆炸,造成该工段414㎡厂房全部摧毁,相邻的冷冻厂厂房部分倒塌,两个厂房内设备、管线全部损毁。并造成附近办公楼及厂区周围280余间民房不同程度损坏。液氯工段当班的8名工人当场死亡。更为严重的是爆炸后氯气扩散7㎞,由于电化厂设在市区,与周围居民区距离较近,事故共导致千余人氯气中毒,数人死亡。直接经济损失若干。经调查最初爆炸的1只液氯钢瓶是由用户送到电化厂来充装液氯的。该用户在生产设备与液氯钢瓶连接管路上没有安装止逆阀、缓冲罐或其他防倒罐装置,致使氯化石蜡倒灌入液氯钢瓶中,而且在送来此钢瓶时也未向充装单位声明情况。负责充装钢瓶的液氯工段工人在充装液氯前没有对欲充装的钢瓶进行检查和清理,就进行液氯充装。充装时,钢瓶内的氯化石蜡和液氯发生化学反应,温度、压力升高,致使钢瓶发生爆炸,并导致周围钢瓶相继爆炸。双方工人均未经特种作业人员培训和考核,没有事故应急预案。根据上述描述,事故发生的直接原因是()。
A. 单位安全管理不严
B. 用户方违章造成液氯钢瓶内混入氯化石蜡
C. 厂方没有应急救援预案或措施
电伤是由电流的()、化学效应或机械效应对人体构成的伤害。
A. 磁效应
B. 热效应
C. 场效应