Passage 3 
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage: 
Too often young people get themselves employed quite by accident, not knowing what lies in the way of opportunity for promotion, happiness and security. As a result, they are employed doing jobs that afford them little or no satisfaction. (80) Our school leavers face so much competition that they seldom care what they do as long as they can earn a living. Some stay long at a job and learn to like it; others quit from one to another looking for something to suit them. The young graduates who leave the university look for jobs that offer a salary up to their expectation. 

Very few go out into the world knowing exactly what they want and realizing their own abilities. The reason behind all this confusion is that there never has been a proper vocational guidance in our educational institution. Nearly all grope (摸索) in the dark and their chief concern when they look for a job is to ask what salary is like. They never bother to think whether they are suited for the job or, even more important, whether the job suits them. Having a job is more than merely providing yourself and your dependants with daily bread and some money for leisure and entertainment. It sets a pattern of life and, in many ways, determines social status in life, selection of friends, leisure and interest. 

In choosing a career you should first consider the type of work which will suit your interest. Nothing is more pathetic than taking on a job in which you have no interest, for it will not only discourage your desire to succeed in life but also ruin your talents and ultimately make you an emotional wreck (受到严重伤害的人) and a bitter person.

【文章大意及重要词汇】

   年轻人是很偶然（by accident）找到工作的，而不考虑提升（promotion）的机会（opportunity），快乐和安全的因素。结果他们找的工作给他们很少甚至根本没有满足感。我们的大学毕业生面临着如此激烈的竞争（competition），因此他们很少在乎从事何种工作，只要能谋生就行了。有些人长时间干同一份工作，并且试着去喜欢它；有些人放弃了一个又一个工作，一直在找适合他们的。刚毕业的大学生（graduation）要找的工作使那些能满足他们薪水（salary）要求的。

   大部分人进入社会却不知道自己想要什么和真正了解自己的能力。所有这些疑惑是由于我们的教育体制（institution）没有给学生提供一个合适的职业指南（guidance）造成的，所有的人都是在摸索（grope）中前进，他们在找工作时首要考虑的是薪水，却从来不去认真的考虑他们是否适合做这些工作或者这样的工作是否适合他们。工作不单单是为你和需要你养活的人提供每天的食物和用于工作之余休闲（leisure）娱乐（entertainment）的消费，更重要的是它决定了你的生活方式，影响着你的社会地位（status），朋友的选择和兴趣所在。没有什么比拥有一份自己不喜欢的工作更可悲（pathetic）的了，因为这样的工作不但挫败（discourage）了你对成功的渴望，而且妨碍了你对天赋（talent）的发挥，最终使你变成一个精神上受到严重伤害的人（wreck），和备感痛苦的人。