Career Planning
Career planning helps you to shape your career possibilities. It includes (1)information about ourselves as well as about occupations. Estimating the probable results of various courses of action is also part of it. Finally, it includes choosing what we find (2)and possible.
There are some (3) steps in career planning. The first one is to study yourself. This is the key (4) career planning. Understanding what you are like, what you value, and what you want to become is the (5) for all career planning. In studying yourself, you examine your strengths and weaknesses, your goals, and the trends in your personal development. The self-understanding that you gain (6) you to imagine something important. That is, you realize how certain (7) may best fit your interests, abilities, and goals.
The second step is to write your career (8) down. A useful method of organizing ideas about your career is to actually write them down by time blocks in your life, for (9), ages nineteen to twenty-two, twenty-three to thirty, and so on. Writing something down may (10) to new ideas about your possibilities and may help you to see relationships, patterns and trends.
The third step is to review your plans and progress periodically with another person. Every so often, take stock of your situation and consider what steps have to be (11)next. Planning further steps can help you face the changes that take (12)in the labor market. Talking over your plans with your parents or friends helps you improve your career plans or make them work.
If you choose a career that does not (13) you, you can start over. Today, a growing number of people are changing careers or getting second starts in careers that attract them. Reasons for changing careers are different, but many people (14)because they feel tired of their jobs. For some, a second start grows out of the awareness that (1)they want out of life is not what they are doing, and they decide to do those things they enjoy. They believe this is important for their personal development.
1.A.accumulating B.increasing C.gathering D.learning
正确答案:C
解析:动词词组搭配：gather information 搜集信息
2.A.pleasant B.attractive C.handsome D.charming
正确答案:B
解析:根据句意“选择你认为有吸引力的内容”，判断B为正确选项
3.A.solution B.conditional C.opener D.key
正确答案:D
解析:根据句意“制定职业计划有关键的几步”。判断D为正确选项
4.A.of B.by C.to D.with
正确答案:C
解析:根据搭配：the key to sth.判断C为正确选项
5.A.application B.foundation C.aspiration D.confrontation
正确答案:B
解析:根据句意：……是制定职业计划的基础，判断B为正确选项
6.A.eliminates B.enables C.displays D.facilitates
正确答案:B
解析:enable sb. to do sth. 使某人能做某事
7.A.engagements B.variations C.applications D.occupations
正确答案:D
解析:根据句意“某些职业最符合你的兴趣﹑能力和目标” ，判断D为正确选项
8.A.designs B.conclusions C.goals D.targets
正确答案:C
解析:根据句意“写下职业目标” ，判断C为正确选项
9.A.preference B.illustration C.instance D.occasion
正确答案:C
解析:for instance“例如”，固定搭配
10.A.lead B.result C.associate D.decline
正确答案:A
解析:lead to“导致”，固定搭配
11.A.acquired B.taken C.done D.provided
正确答案:B
解析:take steps“采取行动”，固定搭配
12.A.placeB.spot C.position D.site
正确答案:A
解析:take place “发生”，固定搭配
13.A.prepare B.adjust C.belong D.fit
正确答案:D
解析:fit sb.“适合某人”
14.A.remove B.proceed C.move D.transfer
正确答案:C
解析:move这里指的是“改变职业”
15.A.which B.that C.what D.how
正确答案:C
解析:这里，what 引导主语从句，意思是“他们从生活中所获得的……”
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