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Read the text and answer the questions 26-32.
1 ______________ The Future of Education According to Generation Z
2 This isn’t his mother’s first-grade class. My son is 7 years old and attends a public school in Oak
3 Park, Ill., just outside Chicago. He reads ahead of most of his classmates, so he accesses a specialized
4 online curriculum instead of the standard printed book. He uses a mobile device to compete in math
5 games with kids all over the world. Much of his homework involves picking a subject he’s interested in,
6 investigating it __ his own and then reporting __ in a classroom discussion.
7 Although my son’s college education will likely be unrecognizable, we can speculate __ changes
8 that will take place __ the next 10 to 15 years. The two main trends rapidly picking __ steam are online
9 learning and vocational training.
10 Online Learning
11 In recent years, we’ve witnessed the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs), which are
12 online classes aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. MOOCs consist of a variety
13 of materials, from video lectures and assigned readings to quizzes and interactive user forums for
14 instructors, students and teaching assistants. The current technology, however, requires some tweaks.
15 “MOOCs are not working that well because people only take one class at a time and then don’t
16 finish it because it isn’t compelling,” says Erica Orange, executive vice president of New York business
17 consultancy The Future Hunters and a member of DeVry University’s Career Advisory Board. “The next
18 generation of MOOCs will be sensorily immersive, leveraging virtual reality to put students in the world
19 they’re studying. Instead of having to memorize facts about the Civil War, for example, a student in a
20 future MOOC will be on the battlefield.”
21 New modes of online learning will cater more effectively to Generation Z - or those students born
22 after the mid 1990s. “The oldest Gen Z-ers have been forced into an industrial model of school, and we
23 are seeing all these attention problems,” Orange says. “Their brains are wired differently and actually
24 function better with input from a variety of sources.”
25 Vocational Training
26 As we approach mid-century, proof of education will be more about the skills you’ve acquired
27 rather than the degree you have. “The costs of traditional college keep increasing, so many will price out
28 and take a technological shortcut,” Orange says.
29 Vocational training has gotten a bad rap for decades, but it’s on the verge of a major makeover.
30 “We’re now calling it competency-based education, which focuses on the mastery of work-related skills
31 rather than command of a particular academic discipline,” Orange says. She cites the examples of
32 coding boot camps devoted to fast-tracking software developers, as well as longer programs including P-
33 Tech, IBM’s six-year vocational high school where students zero in on essential STEM skills and leave
34 with an associate’s degree and a priority path to an IBM position.
35 Venture capitalists and successful entrepreneurs are getting in on the action too, providing
36 mentorship and funding for young people’s promising business ideas. “Paypal co-founder and serial
37 entrepreneur Peter Thiel is at the forefront of these educational incubators,” Orange says. “In 2010, he
38 created the Thiel Fellowship, awarding $100,000 to 20 people under 20 years old in order to spur them
39 to drop out of college and create their own ventures. The Thiel Foundation then launched Breakout Labs,
40 a grantmaking program that funds radical and innovative scientific research.”
41 In the late 20th century, jobs without a future were disparagingly called “blue collar.” This
42 economy, though, needs actual human bodies to do the jobs that machines can’t yet master. For this
43 reason, Orange says, wage growth is accelerating in industries such as manufacturing, mining, logging
44 and transport, and the unemployment rate for high-school graduates is falling faster than for college
45 graduates.
46 After listening to influential companies clamor for more recruits with practical skills, the U.S.
47 government boosted vocational education funding to $1.1 billion.
48 If you talk to teenage Generation Z-ers, you hear that most intend to attend traditional college, but
49 it’s as much (if not more) for the social benefits and networking connections as it is for the skills. Many
50 know what they want to do and already have the means to do it. I wonder if things will come full circle,
51 and like his great-grandfather, my son will choose and train for his first career by the time he’s 16.
52 Source: LEVIT, Alexandra. Time. Retrieved from on Feb. 09, 2018.
Consider the examples of pronoun usage in the text: “his mother"s first-grade class” (l. 02); “we can speculate” (l. 07); “Their brains are wired differently” (l. 23); “We"re now calling it” (l. 30); “In 2010, he created the Thiel Fellowship” (l. 37- 38). What do the underlined pronouns refer to?
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Read the text and answer the questions 26-32.
1 ______________ The Future of Education According to Generation Z
2 This isn’t his mother’s first-grade class. My son is 7 years old and attends a public school in Oak
3 Park, Ill., just outside Chicago. He reads ahead of most of his classmates, so he accesses a specialized
4 online curriculum instead of the standard printed book. He uses a mobile device to compete in math
5 games with kids all over the world. Much of his homework involves picking a subject he’s interested in,
6 investigating it __ his own and then reporting __ in a classroom discussion.
7 Although my son’s college education will likely be unrecognizable, we can speculate __ changes
8 that will take place __ the next 10 to 15 years. The two main trends rapidly picking __ steam are online
9 learning and vocational training.
10 Online Learning
11 In recent years, we’ve witnessed the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs), which are
12 online classes aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. MOOCs consist of a variety
13 of materials, from video lectures and assigned readings to quizzes and interactive user forums for
14 instructors, students and teaching assistants. The current technology, however, requires some tweaks.
15 “MOOCs are not working that well because people only take one class at a time and then don’t
16 finish it because it isn’t compelling,” says Erica Orange, executive vice president of New York business
17 consultancy The Future Hunters and a member of DeVry University’s Career Advisory Board. “The next
18 generation of MOOCs will be sensorily immersive, leveraging virtual reality to put students in the world
19 they’re studying. Instead of having to memorize facts about the Civil War, for example, a student in a
20 future MOOC will be on the battlefield.”
21 New modes of online learning will cater more effectively to Generation Z - or those students born
22 after the mid 1990s. “The oldest Gen Z-ers have been forced into an industrial model of school, and we
23 are seeing all these attention problems,” Orange says. “Their brains are wired differently and actually
24 function better with input from a variety of sources.”
25 Vocational Training
26 As we approach mid-century, proof of education will be more about the skills you’ve acquired
27 rather than the degree you have. “The costs of traditional college keep increasing, so many will price out
28 and take a technological shortcut,” Orange says.
29 Vocational training has gotten a bad rap for decades, but it’s on the verge of a major makeover.
30 “We’re now calling it competency-based education, which focuses on the mastery of work-related skills
31 rather than command of a particular academic discipline,” Orange says. She cites the examples of
32 coding boot camps devoted to fast-tracking software developers, as well as longer programs including P-
33 Tech, IBM’s six-year vocational high school where students zero in on essential STEM skills and leave
34 with an associate’s degree and a priority path to an IBM position.
35 Venture capitalists and successful entrepreneurs are getting in on the action too, providing
36 mentorship and funding for young people’s promising business ideas. “Paypal co-founder and serial
37 entrepreneur Peter Thiel is at the forefront of these educational incubators,” Orange says. “In 2010, he
38 created the Thiel Fellowship, awarding $100,000 to 20 people under 20 years old in order to spur them
39 to drop out of college and create their own ventures. The Thiel Foundation then launched Breakout Labs,
40 a grantmaking program that funds radical and innovative scientific research.”
41 In the late 20th century, jobs without a future were disparagingly called “blue collar.” This
42 economy, though, needs actual human bodies to do the jobs that machines can’t yet master. For this
43 reason, Orange says, wage growth is accelerating in industries such as manufacturing, mining, logging
44 and transport, and the unemployment rate for high-school graduates is falling faster than for college
45 graduates.
46 After listening to influential companies clamor for more recruits with practical skills, the U.S.
47 government boosted vocational education funding to $1.1 billion.
48 If you talk to teenage Generation Z-ers, you hear that most intend to attend traditional college, but
49 it’s as much (if not more) for the social benefits and networking connections as it is for the skills. Many
50 know what they want to do and already have the means to do it. I wonder if things will come full circle,
51 and like his great-grandfather, my son will choose and train for his first career by the time he’s 16.
52 Source: LEVIT, Alexandra. Time. Retrieved from on Feb. 09, 2018.
The ending -ed of regular verbs in the simple past tense may be pronounced in three different ways. Which group below has the same pronunciation of the -ed as in “witnessed” (l. 11) in all of its words?
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Read the text and answer the questions 26-32.
1 ______________ The Future of Education According to Generation Z
2 This isn’t his mother’s first-grade class. My son is 7 years old and attends a public school in Oak
3 Park, Ill., just outside Chicago. He reads ahead of most of his classmates, so he accesses a specialized
4 online curriculum instead of the standard printed book. He uses a mobile device to compete in math
5 games with kids all over the world. Much of his homework involves picking a subject he’s interested in,
6 investigating it __ his own and then reporting __ in a classroom discussion.
7 Although my son’s college education will likely be unrecognizable, we can speculate __ changes
8 that will take place __ the next 10 to 15 years. The two main trends rapidly picking __ steam are online
9 learning and vocational training.
10 Online Learning
11 In recent years, we’ve witnessed the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs), which are
12 online classes aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. MOOCs consist of a variety
13 of materials, from video lectures and assigned readings to quizzes and interactive user forums for
14 instructors, students and teaching assistants. The current technology, however, requires some tweaks.
15 “MOOCs are not working that well because people only take one class at a time and then don’t
16 finish it because it isn’t compelling,” says Erica Orange, executive vice president of New York business
17 consultancy The Future Hunters and a member of DeVry University’s Career Advisory Board. “The next
18 generation of MOOCs will be sensorily immersive, leveraging virtual reality to put students in the world
19 they’re studying. Instead of having to memorize facts about the Civil War, for example, a student in a
20 future MOOC will be on the battlefield.”
21 New modes of online learning will cater more effectively to Generation Z - or those students born
22 after the mid 1990s. “The oldest Gen Z-ers have been forced into an industrial model of school, and we
23 are seeing all these attention problems,” Orange says. “Their brains are wired differently and actually
24 function better with input from a variety of sources.”
25 Vocational Training
26 As we approach mid-century, proof of education will be more about the skills you’ve acquired
27 rather than the degree you have. “The costs of traditional college keep increasing, so many will price out
28 and take a technological shortcut,” Orange says.
29 Vocational training has gotten a bad rap for decades, but it’s on the verge of a major makeover.
30 “We’re now calling it competency-based education, which focuses on the mastery of work-related skills
31 rather than command of a particular academic discipline,” Orange says. She cites the examples of
32 coding boot camps devoted to fast-tracking software developers, as well as longer programs including P-
33 Tech, IBM’s six-year vocational high school where students zero in on essential STEM skills and leave
34 with an associate’s degree and a priority path to an IBM position.
35 Venture capitalists and successful entrepreneurs are getting in on the action too, providing
36 mentorship and funding for young people’s promising business ideas. “Paypal co-founder and serial
37 entrepreneur Peter Thiel is at the forefront of these educational incubators,” Orange says. “In 2010, he
38 created the Thiel Fellowship, awarding $100,000 to 20 people under 20 years old in order to spur them
39 to drop out of college and create their own ventures. The Thiel Foundation then launched Breakout Labs,
40 a grantmaking program that funds radical and innovative scientific research.”
41 In the late 20th century, jobs without a future were disparagingly called “blue collar.” This
42 economy, though, needs actual human bodies to do the jobs that machines can’t yet master. For this
43 reason, Orange says, wage growth is accelerating in industries such as manufacturing, mining, logging
44 and transport, and the unemployment rate for high-school graduates is falling faster than for college
45 graduates.
46 After listening to influential companies clamor for more recruits with practical skills, the U.S.
47 government boosted vocational education funding to $1.1 billion.
48 If you talk to teenage Generation Z-ers, you hear that most intend to attend traditional college, but
49 it’s as much (if not more) for the social benefits and networking connections as it is for the skills. Many
50 know what they want to do and already have the means to do it. I wonder if things will come full circle,
51 and like his great-grandfather, my son will choose and train for his first career by the time he’s 16.
52 Source: LEVIT, Alexandra. Time. Retrieved from on Feb. 09, 2018.
Consider the use of active and passive voice in the excerpts below:
I. Although my son’s college education will likely be unrecognizable (…) (l. 7)
II. Proof of education will be more about the skills you’ve acquired (…) (l. 26)
III. The oldest Gen Z-ers have been forced into an industrial model of school… (l. 22)
IV. Their brains are wired differently… (l. 23)
V. In the late 20th century, jobs without a future were disparagingly called “blue collar.” (l. 41)
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Read the text and answer the questions 26-32.
1 ______________ The Future of Education According to Generation Z
2 This isn’t his mother’s first-grade class. My son is 7 years old and attends a public school in Oak
3 Park, Ill., just outside Chicago. He reads ahead of most of his classmates, so he accesses a specialized
4 online curriculum instead of the standard printed book. He uses a mobile device to compete in math
5 games with kids all over the world. Much of his homework involves picking a subject he’s interested in,
6 investigating it __ his own and then reporting __ in a classroom discussion.
7 Although my son’s college education will likely be unrecognizable, we can speculate __ changes
8 that will take place __ the next 10 to 15 years. The two main trends rapidly picking __ steam are online
9 learning and vocational training.
10 Online Learning
11 In recent years, we’ve witnessed the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs), which are
12 online classes aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. MOOCs consist of a variety
13 of materials, from video lectures and assigned readings to quizzes and interactive user forums for
14 instructors, students and teaching assistants. The current technology, however, requires some tweaks.
15 “MOOCs are not working that well because people only take one class at a time and then don’t
16 finish it because it isn’t compelling,” says Erica Orange, executive vice president of New York business
17 consultancy The Future Hunters and a member of DeVry University’s Career Advisory Board. “The next
18 generation of MOOCs will be sensorily immersive, leveraging virtual reality to put students in the world
19 they’re studying. Instead of having to memorize facts about the Civil War, for example, a student in a
20 future MOOC will be on the battlefield.”
21 New modes of online learning will cater more effectively to Generation Z - or those students born
22 after the mid 1990s. “The oldest Gen Z-ers have been forced into an industrial model of school, and we
23 are seeing all these attention problems,” Orange says. “Their brains are wired differently and actually
24 function better with input from a variety of sources.”
25 Vocational Training
26 As we approach mid-century, proof of education will be more about the skills you’ve acquired
27 rather than the degree you have. “The costs of traditional college keep increasing, so many will price out
28 and take a technological shortcut,” Orange says.
29 Vocational training has gotten a bad rap for decades, but it’s on the verge of a major makeover.
30 “We’re now calling it competency-based education, which focuses on the mastery of work-related skills
31 rather than command of a particular academic discipline,” Orange says. She cites the examples of
32 coding boot camps devoted to fast-tracking software developers, as well as longer programs including P-
33 Tech, IBM’s six-year vocational high school where students zero in on essential STEM skills and leave
34 with an associate’s degree and a priority path to an IBM position.
35 Venture capitalists and successful entrepreneurs are getting in on the action too, providing
36 mentorship and funding for young people’s promising business ideas. “Paypal co-founder and serial
37 entrepreneur Peter Thiel is at the forefront of these educational incubators,” Orange says. “In 2010, he
38 created the Thiel Fellowship, awarding $100,000 to 20 people under 20 years old in order to spur them
39 to drop out of college and create their own ventures. The Thiel Foundation then launched Breakout Labs,
40 a grantmaking program that funds radical and innovative scientific research.”
41 In the late 20th century, jobs without a future were disparagingly called “blue collar.” This
42 economy, though, needs actual human bodies to do the jobs that machines can’t yet master. For this
43 reason, Orange says, wage growth is accelerating in industries such as manufacturing, mining, logging
44 and transport, and the unemployment rate for high-school graduates is falling faster than for college
45 graduates.
46 After listening to influential companies clamor for more recruits with practical skills, the U.S.
47 government boosted vocational education funding to $1.1 billion.
48 If you talk to teenage Generation Z-ers, you hear that most intend to attend traditional college, but
49 it’s as much (if not more) for the social benefits and networking connections as it is for the skills. Many
50 know what they want to do and already have the means to do it. I wonder if things will come full circle,
51 and like his great-grandfather, my son will choose and train for his first career by the time he’s 16.
52 Source: LEVIT, Alexandra. Time. Retrieved from on Feb. 09, 2018.
Consider the statements below:
I. Towards the end of the article, the author implies that college education will probably remain as relevant to the market needs as it has been.
II. One can infer from the text that, because American economy is driven by businesses, entrepreneurs take full responsibility for encouraging vocational training among students, so the government does not need to intervene.
III. The increase of interest in competency-based education is related to both market needs and to the increasing costs of higher education in the U.S.
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Read the text and answer the questions 26-32.
1 ______________ The Future of Education According to Generation Z
2 This isn’t his mother’s first-grade class. My son is 7 years old and attends a public school in Oak
3 Park, Ill., just outside Chicago. He reads ahead of most of his classmates, so he accesses a specialized
4 online curriculum instead of the standard printed book. He uses a mobile device to compete in math
5 games with kids all over the world. Much of his homework involves picking a subject he’s interested in,
6 investigating it __ his own and then reporting __ in a classroom discussion.
7 Although my son’s college education will likely be unrecognizable, we can speculate __ changes
8 that will take place __ the next 10 to 15 years. The two main trends rapidly picking __ steam are online
9 learning and vocational training.
10 Online Learning
11 In recent years, we’ve witnessed the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs), which are
12 online classes aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. MOOCs consist of a variety
13 of materials, from video lectures and assigned readings to quizzes and interactive user forums for
14 instructors, students and teaching assistants. The current technology, however, requires some tweaks.
15 “MOOCs are not working that well because people only take one class at a time and then don’t
16 finish it because it isn’t compelling,” says Erica Orange, executive vice president of New York business
17 consultancy The Future Hunters and a member of DeVry University’s Career Advisory Board. “The next
18 generation of MOOCs will be sensorily immersive, leveraging virtual reality to put students in the world
19 they’re studying. Instead of having to memorize facts about the Civil War, for example, a student in a
20 future MOOC will be on the battlefield.”
21 New modes of online learning will cater more effectively to Generation Z - or those students born
22 after the mid 1990s. “The oldest Gen Z-ers have been forced into an industrial model of school, and we
23 are seeing all these attention problems,” Orange says. “Their brains are wired differently and actually
24 function better with input from a variety of sources.”
25 Vocational Training
26 As we approach mid-century, proof of education will be more about the skills you’ve acquired
27 rather than the degree you have. “The costs of traditional college keep increasing, so many will price out
28 and take a technological shortcut,” Orange says.
29 Vocational training has gotten a bad rap for decades, but it’s on the verge of a major makeover.
30 “We’re now calling it competency-based education, which focuses on the mastery of work-related skills
31 rather than command of a particular academic discipline,” Orange says. She cites the examples of
32 coding boot camps devoted to fast-tracking software developers, as well as longer programs including P-
33 Tech, IBM’s six-year vocational high school where students zero in on essential STEM skills and leave
34 with an associate’s degree and a priority path to an IBM position.
35 Venture capitalists and successful entrepreneurs are getting in on the action too, providing
36 mentorship and funding for young people’s promising business ideas. “Paypal co-founder and serial
37 entrepreneur Peter Thiel is at the forefront of these educational incubators,” Orange says. “In 2010, he
38 created the Thiel Fellowship, awarding $100,000 to 20 people under 20 years old in order to spur them
39 to drop out of college and create their own ventures. The Thiel Foundation then launched Breakout Labs,
40 a grantmaking program that funds radical and innovative scientific research.”
41 In the late 20th century, jobs without a future were disparagingly called “blue collar.” This
42 economy, though, needs actual human bodies to do the jobs that machines can’t yet master. For this
43 reason, Orange says, wage growth is accelerating in industries such as manufacturing, mining, logging
44 and transport, and the unemployment rate for high-school graduates is falling faster than for college
45 graduates.
46 After listening to influential companies clamor for more recruits with practical skills, the U.S.
47 government boosted vocational education funding to $1.1 billion.
48 If you talk to teenage Generation Z-ers, you hear that most intend to attend traditional college, but
49 it’s as much (if not more) for the social benefits and networking connections as it is for the skills. Many
50 know what they want to do and already have the means to do it. I wonder if things will come full circle,
51 and like his great-grandfather, my son will choose and train for his first career by the time he’s 16.
52 Source: LEVIT, Alexandra. Time. Retrieved from on Feb. 09, 2018.
The gaps at the beginning of the text (l. 6, 7 and 8) could be accurately and coherently completed by the following words:
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Read the text and answer the questions 26-32.
1 ______________ The Future of Education According to Generation Z
2 This isn’t his mother’s first-grade class. My son is 7 years old and attends a public school in Oak
3 Park, Ill., just outside Chicago. He reads ahead of most of his classmates, so he accesses a specialized
4 online curriculum instead of the standard printed book. He uses a mobile device to compete in math
5 games with kids all over the world. Much of his homework involves picking a subject he’s interested in,
6 investigating it __ his own and then reporting __ in a classroom discussion.
7 Although my son’s college education will likely be unrecognizable, we can speculate __ changes
8 that will take place __ the next 10 to 15 years. The two main trends rapidly picking __ steam are online
9 learning and vocational training.
10 Online Learning
11 In recent years, we’ve witnessed the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs), which are
12 online classes aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. MOOCs consist of a variety
13 of materials, from video lectures and assigned readings to quizzes and interactive user forums for
14 instructors, students and teaching assistants. The current technology, however, requires some tweaks.
15 “MOOCs are not working that well because people only take one class at a time and then don’t
16 finish it because it isn’t compelling,” says Erica Orange, executive vice president of New York business
17 consultancy The Future Hunters and a member of DeVry University’s Career Advisory Board. “The next
18 generation of MOOCs will be sensorily immersive, leveraging virtual reality to put students in the world
19 they’re studying. Instead of having to memorize facts about the Civil War, for example, a student in a
20 future MOOC will be on the battlefield.”
21 New modes of online learning will cater more effectively to Generation Z - or those students born
22 after the mid 1990s. “The oldest Gen Z-ers have been forced into an industrial model of school, and we
23 are seeing all these attention problems,” Orange says. “Their brains are wired differently and actually
24 function better with input from a variety of sources.”
25 Vocational Training
26 As we approach mid-century, proof of education will be more about the skills you’ve acquired
27 rather than the degree you have. “The costs of traditional college keep increasing, so many will price out
28 and take a technological shortcut,” Orange says.
29 Vocational training has gotten a bad rap for decades, but it’s on the verge of a major makeover.
30 “We’re now calling it competency-based education, which focuses on the mastery of work-related skills
31 rather than command of a particular academic discipline,” Orange says. She cites the examples of
32 coding boot camps devoted to fast-tracking software developers, as well as longer programs including P-
33 Tech, IBM’s six-year vocational high school where students zero in on essential STEM skills and leave
34 with an associate’s degree and a priority path to an IBM position.
35 Venture capitalists and successful entrepreneurs are getting in on the action too, providing
36 mentorship and funding for young people’s promising business ideas. “Paypal co-founder and serial
37 entrepreneur Peter Thiel is at the forefront of these educational incubators,” Orange says. “In 2010, he
38 created the Thiel Fellowship, awarding $100,000 to 20 people under 20 years old in order to spur them
39 to drop out of college and create their own ventures. The Thiel Foundation then launched Breakout Labs,
40 a grantmaking program that funds radical and innovative scientific research.”
41 In the late 20th century, jobs without a future were disparagingly called “blue collar.” This
42 economy, though, needs actual human bodies to do the jobs that machines can’t yet master. For this
43 reason, Orange says, wage growth is accelerating in industries such as manufacturing, mining, logging
44 and transport, and the unemployment rate for high-school graduates is falling faster than for college
45 graduates.
46 After listening to influential companies clamor for more recruits with practical skills, the U.S.
47 government boosted vocational education funding to $1.1 billion.
48 If you talk to teenage Generation Z-ers, you hear that most intend to attend traditional college, but
49 it’s as much (if not more) for the social benefits and networking connections as it is for the skills. Many
50 know what they want to do and already have the means to do it. I wonder if things will come full circle,
51 and like his great-grandfather, my son will choose and train for his first career by the time he’s 16.
52 Source: LEVIT, Alexandra. Time. Retrieved from on Feb. 09, 2018.
In the sentence “Vocational training has gotten a bad rap for decades, but it"s on the verge of a major makeover” (l. 29), the underlined phrases could be replaced, with no substantial change in meaning and grammatical accuracy, by:
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Read the text and answer the questions 26-32.
1 ______________ The Future of Education According to Generation Z
2 This isn’t his mother’s first-grade class. My son is 7 years old and attends a public school in Oak
3 Park, Ill., just outside Chicago. He reads ahead of most of his classmates, so he accesses a specialized
4 online curriculum instead of the standard printed book. He uses a mobile device to compete in math
5 games with kids all over the world. Much of his homework involves picking a subject he’s interested in,
6 investigating it __ his own and then reporting __ in a classroom discussion.
7 Although my son’s college education will likely be unrecognizable, we can speculate __ changes
8 that will take place __ the next 10 to 15 years. The two main trends rapidly picking __ steam are online
9 learning and vocational training.
10 Online Learning
11 In recent years, we’ve witnessed the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs), which are
12 online classes aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. MOOCs consist of a variety
13 of materials, from video lectures and assigned readings to quizzes and interactive user forums for
14 instructors, students and teaching assistants. The current technology, however, requires some tweaks.
15 “MOOCs are not working that well because people only take one class at a time and then don’t
16 finish it because it isn’t compelling,” says Erica Orange, executive vice president of New York business
17 consultancy The Future Hunters and a member of DeVry University’s Career Advisory Board. “The next
18 generation of MOOCs will be sensorily immersive, leveraging virtual reality to put students in the world
19 they’re studying. Instead of having to memorize facts about the Civil War, for example, a student in a
20 future MOOC will be on the battlefield.”
21 New modes of online learning will cater more effectively to Generation Z - or those students born
22 after the mid 1990s. “The oldest Gen Z-ers have been forced into an industrial model of school, and we
23 are seeing all these attention problems,” Orange says. “Their brains are wired differently and actually
24 function better with input from a variety of sources.”
25 Vocational Training
26 As we approach mid-century, proof of education will be more about the skills you’ve acquired
27 rather than the degree you have. “The costs of traditional college keep increasing, so many will price out
28 and take a technological shortcut,” Orange says.
29 Vocational training has gotten a bad rap for decades, but it’s on the verge of a major makeover.
30 “We’re now calling it competency-based education, which focuses on the mastery of work-related skills
31 rather than command of a particular academic discipline,” Orange says. She cites the examples of
32 coding boot camps devoted to fast-tracking software developers, as well as longer programs including P-
33 Tech, IBM’s six-year vocational high school where students zero in on essential STEM skills and leave
34 with an associate’s degree and a priority path to an IBM position.
35 Venture capitalists and successful entrepreneurs are getting in on the action too, providing
36 mentorship and funding for young people’s promising business ideas. “Paypal co-founder and serial
37 entrepreneur Peter Thiel is at the forefront of these educational incubators,” Orange says. “In 2010, he
38 created the Thiel Fellowship, awarding $100,000 to 20 people under 20 years old in order to spur them
39 to drop out of college and create their own ventures. The Thiel Foundation then launched Breakout Labs,
40 a grantmaking program that funds radical and innovative scientific research.”
41 In the late 20th century, jobs without a future were disparagingly called “blue collar.” This
42 economy, though, needs actual human bodies to do the jobs that machines can’t yet master. For this
43 reason, Orange says, wage growth is accelerating in industries such as manufacturing, mining, logging
44 and transport, and the unemployment rate for high-school graduates is falling faster than for college
45 graduates.
46 After listening to influential companies clamor for more recruits with practical skills, the U.S.
47 government boosted vocational education funding to $1.1 billion.
48 If you talk to teenage Generation Z-ers, you hear that most intend to attend traditional college, but
49 it’s as much (if not more) for the social benefits and networking connections as it is for the skills. Many
50 know what they want to do and already have the means to do it. I wonder if things will come full circle,
51 and like his great-grandfather, my son will choose and train for his first career by the time he’s 16.
52 Source: LEVIT, Alexandra. Time. Retrieved from on Feb. 09, 2018.
Considering the text, it is possible to say that:
I. School activities today are very different from those from the time the writer went to school.
II. MOOCS could be more successful if the technology they use had some fine adjustments and became more engaging for participants.
III. Because they value vocational skills over academic knowledge, some entrepreneurs are even encouraging high-potential students to leave college behind to start their own businesses.
Provas
Leia os trechos que seguem, do capítulo 1, “A cicatriz de Ulisses”, do livro Mimesis, de Erich Auerbach, e assinale a alternativa que se apresenta INCORRETA em relação ao que propõe o estudioso.
Mas um tal processo subjetivo-perspectivista, que cria um primeiro e um segundo planos, de modo que o presente se abra na direção das profundezas do passado, é totalmente estranho ao estilo homérico; ele só conhece o primeiro plano, só um presente uniformemente iluminado, uniformemente objetivo; e assim, a digressão começa só dois versos depois, quando Euricleia já descobriu a cicatriz – quando a possibilidade da ordenação em perspectiva não mais existe, e a estória da cicatriz torna-se um presente independente e pleno. [...]
Mas os próprios seres humanos dos relatos bíblicos são mais ricos em segundos planos do que os homéricos; eles têm mais profundidade quanto ao tempo, ao destino e à consciência. Ainda que estejam quase sempre envolvidos num acontecimento que os ocupa por completo, não se entregam a tal acontecimento a ponto de perderem a permanente consciência do que lhes acontecera em outro tempo e em outro lugar; seus pensamentos e sentimentos têm mais camadas e são mais intrincados.
(AUERBACH, Erich. Mimesis: a representação da realidade na literatura ocidental. 2. ed. rev. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1987. p. 5-9.)
Provas
Em O cancionista, livro de referência nos estudos de canção popular, Luiz Tatit define o centro da canção como a “entoação”, e não como uma combinação de letra e melodia, entendidas separadamente. Para o semioticista, a variação da entoação, que é a letra entoada em certa melodia, é que deve ser observada pelo estudioso no momento de análise. Considerando essas premissas, e a importância de se estudar canção popular no universo da literatura brasileira, todas as manifestações seguintes seriam passíveis de uma análise cancional, EXCETO
Provas
Considere a observação abaixo, do professor Rildo Cosson:
Em uma sociedade letrada como a nossa, as possibilidades de exercício do corpo linguagem pelo uso das palavras são inumeráveis. Há, entretanto, uma que ocupa lugar central. Trata-se da escrita. Praticamente todas as transações humanas de nossa sociedade letrada passam, de uma maneira ou de outra, pela escrita, mesmo aquelas que aparentemente são orais ou imagéticas. É assim com o jornal televisionado com o locutor que lê um texto escrito. É assim com práticas culturais de origem oral como a literatura de cordel, cujos versos são registrados nos folhetos para serem vendidos nas feiras. (COSSON, Rildo. Letramento literário: teoria e prática. 2. ed. São Paulo: Contexto, 2016. p. 16.)
Definindo-se a sociedade contemporânea (“hoje”) como aquela que existe desde a criação da internet até os dias atuais, pode-se afirmar que o texto escrito
Provas
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