SECTION III: READING

Part 1. Questions 56 – 65 

Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question.

The first question we might ask is: What can you learn in college that will help you in being an employee? The schools teach a (56) ________ many things of value to the future accountant, doctor or electrician. Do they also teach anything of value to the future employee? Yes, they teach the one thing that it is perhaps most valuable for the future employee to know. But very few students bother (57) ________it. This basic is the skill ability to organize and express ideas in writing and in speaking. This means that your success as an employee will depend on your ability to communicate, with people and to (58) ________ your own thoughts and ideas to them so they will (59) ________ understand what you are driving at and be persuaded.

Of course, skill in expression is not enough (60) ________ itself. You must have something to say in the first place. The effectiveness of your job depends (61) ________ your ability to make other people understand your work as they do on the quality of the work itself.

Expressing one's thoughts is one skill that the school can (62) ________ teach. The foundations for skill in expression have to be (63) ________ early: an interest in and an ear (64) ________ language; experience in organizing ideas and data, in brushing aside the irrelevant, and above all the habit of verbal expression. If you do not lay these foundations (65) ________ your school years, you may never have an opportunity again.

The schools teach a (56) ________ many things of value to the future accountant, doctor or electrician.