[填空题]For many students, a main reason for being in college is to prepare themselves for a career goal—the specific kind of work they intend to do in life. If you have not been thinking (36) about this long-range goal, you should begin doing so during your first college year. Here are three (37) steps you can take to start making clear for yourself a career goal.
First, if you are not sure of a major, visit the college’s (38) center. The center probably (39) an interest inventory and a vocational preference test. The first (40) what you like and can do well; the second points to careers that match your interests and abilities. With this information, the counseling staff at the center can help you decide on a (41) major. You should begin taking courses in this (42) major as soon as you can, in order to learn for sure that it is right for you.
Second, some time early in college, you should make an (

[单项选择] The Carnegie Foundation report says that many colleges have tried to be "all things to all people". In doing so, they have increasingly catered to a narrow minded careerism while failing to cultivate a global vision among their students. The current crisis, it contends, does not derive from a legitimate desire to put learning to productive ends. The problem is that in too many academic fields, the work has no context; skills, rather than being means, have become ends. Students are offered a variety of options and allowed to pick their way to a degree. In short, driven by careerism, "the nation’’s colleges and universities are more successful in providing credentials (文凭) than in providing a quality education for their students. "The report concludes that the special challenge confronting the undergraduate college is one of shaping an "integrated core" of common learning. Such a core would introduce students" to essential knowledge, to connections across the disciplines, and in the
A. a narrow vocationalism has come to dominate many colleges
B. students don’’t have enough freedom in choosing what they want to learn
C. skills are being taught as a means to an end
D. students are only interested in obtaining credentials