2020年英语二阅读理解Text4

第一段

Now that members of Generation Z are graduating college this springthe most commonly-accepted definition says this generation was bom after 1995, give or take a year-the attention has been rising steadily in recent weeks. GenZs are about to hit the streets looking for work in a labor market that's tighter than it's been in decades. And employers are planning on hiring about 17 percent more new graduates for jobs in the U.S. this year than last, according to a survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Everybody wants to know how the people who will soon inhabit those empty office cubicles will differ from those who came before them.

单词&词组

1. commonly-accepted 普遍接受的

2. give or take  相差不到……

3. hit the streets  [商品]大量上市

4. inhabit  v. 占据，留在

5. cubicle  n. 小房间，隔间

本段翻译

现在Z一代的成员今年春天就要毕业了，最普遍接受的定义是这一代人是1995年以后出生的，近几周来人们对这一代人的关注一直在稳步上升。GenZs即将走上街头，在一个比几十年来更加紧张的劳动力市场寻找工作。美国全国大学与雇主协会（National Association of Colleges And employers）的一项调查显示，今年美国雇主计划招聘的应届毕业生比去年多出17%。每个人都想知道，不久将居住在那些空荡荡的办公隔间里的人与之前的人有何不同。

第二段

If"entitled"is the most common adjective, fairly or not, applied to millennials (those bom between 1981 and 1995), the catchwords for Generation Z are practical and cautious. According to the career counselors and expert who study them, Generation Zs are clear-eyed, economic pragmatists.

单词&词组

1. fairly or not  无论是否恰当

2. entitle  v. 使有权利，使有资格

3. millennial  n. 千禧一代

4. catchword  n. 关键词；代表性口号

5. career counselor  职业顾问

6. pragmatist  n. 实用主义者

本段翻译

如果说“有资格”是最常见的形容词，不管公平与否，都适用于千禧一代（出生于1981年至1995年之间的人），那么“Z一代”的流行语是实用和谨慎的。根据职业咨询师和研究专家的说法，Z一代是头脑清醒的经济实用主义者。

第三段

Despite graduating into the best economy in the past 50 years, Gen Zs know what an economic train wreck looks like. They were impressionable kids during the crash of 2008, when many of their parents lost their jobs or their life savings or both. They aren,'t interested in taking any chances. The booming economy seems to have done little to assuage this underlying generational sense of anxious urgency, especially for those who have college debt. College loan balances in the U.S. now stand at a record $1.5 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve.

单词&词组

1. impressionable  a. （尤因年轻而）易受影响的

2. assuage  v. 缓和，减轻

3. underlying  a. 根本的，潜在的

4. balance  n. （债务的）余款，结欠

本段翻译

尽管在过去的50年里，Zs一代毕业于经济最好的国家，但他知道经济崩溃是什么样子的。在2008年金融危机期间，他们都是易受影响的孩子，当时他们的父母中有许多人失业或失去了毕生积蓄，或两者兼而有之。他们对冒险不感兴趣。蓬勃发展的经济似乎并没有缓解这一代人潜在的紧迫感，尤其是那些有大学债务的人。根据美联储（FederalReserve）的数据，美国大学贷款余额目前达到创纪录的1.5万亿美元。

第四段

One survey from Accenture found that 88 percent of graduating seniors this year chose their major with a job in mind. In a 2019 survey of University of Georgia students, meanwhile, the career office found the most desirable trait in a future employer was the ability to offer secure employment (followed by professional development and training, and then inspiring purpose). Job security or stability was the second most important career goal (work-life balance was number one), followed by a sense of being dedicated to a cause or to feel good about serving the great good.