2023年12月英語六級真題聽力第一套（7）

英文原文

Recording 3
記錄3

Earlier this month the think tank called Onward published a report "a question of degree" which argues that degrees and the creative arts are not good value for money.
本月早些時候，名為“Onward”的智庫發(fā)布了一份名為《學(xué)位問題》的報告，該報告認(rèn)為學(xué)位和創(chuàng)意藝術(shù)并不是物有所值的投資。

ministers according to Onward, should crack down on courses that offer extremely limited value for money to students 10 years after graduation, restricting the ability of such courses to recruit new students.
根據(jù)Onward的說法，部長們應(yīng)該打擊那些在學(xué)生畢業(yè)后10年內(nèi)提供極低價值課程的課程，限制這些課程招收新學(xué)生的能力。

if the average graduate earns below the student loans payment threshold, courses like science technology, engineering and math and economics, where the average graduate earns a lot, should be favored.
如果平均畢業(yè)生收入低于學(xué)生貸款還款門檻，則應(yīng)傾向于那些平均畢業(yè)生收入較高的課程，如科學(xué)、技術(shù)、工程和數(shù)學(xué)以及經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)等。

the report provides insight into a government review which looks at how to reform technical education and how to ensure students get good value for money.
該報告對政府審查提供了見解，該審查著眼于如何改革技術(shù)教育以及如何確保學(xué)生物有所值。

at first glance, it might even seem like Onward have a point.
乍一看，Onward似乎有些道理。

according to their data, the majority of creative art students earn less than £25,000 a year 10 years after graduation.
根據(jù)他們的數(shù)據(jù)，大多數(shù)創(chuàng)意藝術(shù)專業(yè)學(xué)生在畢業(yè)后10年內(nèi)每年的收入都低于25,000英鎊。

the average male creative arts students indeed apparently earn much less than they would had they simply never gone to university.
平均而言，男性創(chuàng)意藝術(shù)專業(yè)的學(xué)生實際上賺得比他們從未上過大學(xué)時少得多。

this isn't really good for anyone, and it's certainly no good for graduates who are forced to endure a lifestyle where they can never save up, never buy a house, never hope to retire.
這對任何人來說都不是好事，尤其是對那些被迫忍受無法存錢、無法買房、無法希望退休的畢業(yè)生來說，更不是好事。

Onward have identified a real problem.
Onward已經(jīng)發(fā)現(xiàn)了一個真正的問題。

creative arts graduates from top universities like Oxford, with a high proportion of privately educated students, have fairly good work prospects.
來自牛津等頂尖大學(xué)的創(chuàng)意藝術(shù)專業(yè)畢業(yè)生，由于私立教育學(xué)生的比例較高，就業(yè)前景相當(dāng)不錯。

while 40% of all graduates regardless of their degree earn less than £25,000 a year five years after graduation.
然而，無論學(xué)位如何，所有畢業(yè)生中有40%的人在畢業(yè)后五年內(nèi)每年的收入都低于25,000英鎊。

this suggests that the problem isn't really to do with specific students studying specific degrees.
這表明問題并不在于特定學(xué)生攻讀特定學(xué)位。

but really with the economy as a whole
但真正的問題其實在于整個經(jīng)濟(jì)環(huán)境

regardless of what they've studied
無論他們學(xué)的是什么

young people find it hard to get ahead
年輕人發(fā)現(xiàn)很難出人頭地

unless they're lucky enough to be born with successful parents
除非他們幸運(yùn)地出生在有成功父母的家庭

if ministers want to make education pay for young people
如果部長們想讓教育為年輕人帶來回報

they need to look beyond the higher education sector towards the wider world
他們需要超越高等教育領(lǐng)域，放眼更廣闊的世界

the rewards that education gives us are not measurable
教育給我們的回報是無法衡量的

they are not always instantly obvious
它們并不總是立即可見的

and certainly not always direct
當(dāng)然也不是直接的

an education makes you a different person from the one you would have been if you hadn't received it
教育讓你成為一個不同于沒有接受教育時的自己

we need to look at the value of education not in the context of a bank balance but of a life
我們需要從生活的角度而不是銀行余額的角度來審視教育的價值

if we continue to allow ourselves to be distracted with talk of value for money
如果我們繼續(xù)讓自己被金錢價值的話題所分散注意力

we will all be made poorer as a result
結(jié)果我們所有人都會變得更窮

questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard
問題22到25是基于你剛剛聽到的錄音

question 22 what does onwards report proposed ministers should do
問題 22：報告建議部長們應(yīng)該怎么做

question 23 Best Woods arguments
問題 23：最佳森林論據(jù)

question 24 what do we learn about British college graduates five years after graduation
問題24：我們了解到英國大學(xué)畢業(yè)生在畢業(yè)后五年的情況是什么

question 25 what does the speaker say actually accounts for the problem identified by Onward
問題25：說話者認(rèn)為什么才是造成Onward所識別問題的真正原因