Questions 28-32
No step in life is more important than the choice of a vocation. The wise selection of the business,
profession, trade, or occupation to which one’s life is to be devoted and the development of full
efficiency in the chosen field are matters of the deepest moment to young men and to the public.
These vital problems should be solved in a careful, scientific way, with due regard to each person’s
aptitudes, abilities, ambitions, resources, and limitations and the relations of these elements to the
conditions of success in different industries. If a boy takes up a line of work to which he is adapted,
he will achieve greater success than if he drifts into an industry for which he is not fitted. An
occupation out of harmony with the worker’s aptitudes and capacities means inefficiency,
unenthusiastic and perhaps distasteful labor, and low pay, while an occupation in harmony with the
nature of the man means enthusiasm, love of work, and high economic values—superior product,
efficient service, and good pay. If a young man chooses his vocation so that his best abilities and
enthusiasms will be united with his daily work, he has laid the foundations of success and happiness.
But if his best abilities and enthusiasms are separated from his daily work or do not find in it fair
scope and opportunity for exercise and development, if his occupation is merely a means of making
a living, and the work he loves to do is sidetracked into the evening hours or pushed out of his life
altogether, he will be only a fraction of the man he ought to be. Efficiency and success are largely
dependent on adaptation.
【題組】28. The general tone of this passage might well be attacked by a group _____.
(A) interested in equal rights to women
(B) seeking an understanding of the problems of youth
(C) seeking an understanding of the relation of success and individual abilities
(D) demanding that jobs and interests coincide
(E) interested in advice for young men in college
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