2023年12月英语六级听力真题 卷一 录音3

Recording Three

录音三

Earlier this month, the think-tank called Onward published a report, "A Question of Degree”, which argues that degrees in the creative arts are not good value for money.

本月早些时候，名为“前进”的智库发表了一份名为“学位问题”的报告，该报告认为，创意艺术的学位并不是物有所值的。

Ministers, according to Onward, should “crack down on courses that offer extremely limited value for money to students ten years after graduation”, restricting the ability of such courses to recruit new students, if the average graduate earns below the student loans payment threshold.

据他介绍，部长们应该“打击那些在毕业十年后为学生提供极其有限的物有所值的课程”，如果毕业生的平均收入低于学生贷款支付门槛的话，限制这些课程招收新生的能力。

Courses like science, technology, engineering, and math, and economics, where the average graduate earns a lot, should be favored.

科学、技术、工程、数学和经济学等普通毕业生收入很高的课程应该受到青睐。

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.

这份报告提供了一个政府审查的洞察力，审查如何改革技术教育和如何确保学生获得良好的性价比。

At first glance, it might even seem like Onward have a point.

乍一看，它甚至可能看起来像前进有一个道理。

According to their data, the majority of creative arts students earn less than 25,000 pounds a year, ten years after graduation.

根据他们的数据，大多数创意艺术学生毕业十年后，年收入不到25,000英镑。

The average male creative arts students, indeed, apparently earn much less than they would, had they simply never gone to university.

事实上，如果没有上过大学，男性创意艺术学生的平均收入显然要比他们要少得多。

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.

这对任何人都没有好处，对毕业生来说也没有好处，他们不得不忍受一种生活方式，在那里他们永远不能储蓄，永远不会买房子，也不会希望退休。

Onward have identified a real problem.

后来发现了一个真正的问题。

Creative arts graduates from top universities —like Oxford, with a high proportion of privately-educated students- have fairly good work prospects.

像牛津大学这样的顶尖大学的创意艺术毕业生，私立教育的学生比例很高，他们有相当好的工作前景。

Well, 40 percent of all graduates一regardless of their degree- are on less than 25,000 pounds a year, 5 years after graduation.

好吧，40%的毕业生——不管他们的学历如何——在毕业5年后，一年收入不到25，000英镑。

This suggests that the problem isn't really to do with specific students studying specific degrees, but really with the economy as a whole.

这表明，这个问题并不真的与学习特定学位的特定学生有关，而是与作为一个整体的经济有关。

Regardless of what they've studied, young people find it hard to get ahead unless they're lucky enough to be born with successful parents.

不管他们学的是什么，年轻人都很难出人头地，除非他们有幸生在成功的父母身边。

If ministers want to make education pay for young people, they need to look beyond the higher education sector, towards the wider world.

如果部长们想让教育为年轻人买单，他们需要把目光投向高等教育领域之外，投向更广阔的世界。

The rewards that education gives us are not measurable.

教育给我们的回报是无法衡量的。

They are not always instantly obvious, and certainly not always direct.

它们并不总是那么明显，当然也不总是那么直接。

An education makes you a different person from the one you would have been if you hadn't received it.

教育让你成为一个不同于没有接受教育时的你。

We need to look at the value of education not in the context of a bank balance, but of a life.

我们不应该从银行存款余额的角度来看待教育的价值，而应该从生命的角度来看待它。

If we continue to allow ourselves to be distracted with talk of “value for money”, we will all be made poorer as a result.

如果我们继续让自己被“物有所值”的论调所干扰，结果我们都会变得更穷。

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.

问题22到25是基于你刚才听到的录音。

Question22. What does Onward's report propose ministers should do?

Onward的报告建议部长们应该做什么?

Question23. What does the speaker think of Onward's arguments?

讲话者如何看待 Onward 的论点?

Question24. What do we learn about British college graduates five years after graduation?

我们对毕业5年后的英国大学毕业生了解到什么？

Question25. What does the speaker say actually accounts for the problem identified by Onward?

讲话者认为，Onward所发现的问题究竟是由什么原因造成的？

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