新视野大学英语2听力原文及答案(17)

QUESTIONS:
1. How does the woman prepare for the working world?
2. How did the man find his internship?
3. What advice does the man give to the woman?
4. What does the man think the woman needs most right now?
ANSWERS:
1. A 2.D 3.B 4.B
PASSAGE
In 1964,19 million women were employed in the United States. Today they total 65 million,working in a wide variety of industries and increasingly pursuing higher education. The number of working women who have attended college has increased 200 percent since 1970,and the undergraduate class of 2011 was 57 percent female.
Yet as far as women have come,they still earn on average only 81.2 percent as much as men and remain in lower-end jobs. What are the best-paying jobs for women? Using data on the weekly earnings of full-time workers in 2010 collected by BLS,we discovered that tech and health care is where the money’s at.
Female physicians and surgeons topped the list. These women earned a median of ＄1,618 per week,or about ＄84,000 a year,more than any other profession tracked by the BLS. Male doctors continue to earn more than female doctors,but the pay gap has narrowed each year;it’s now at 29 percent versus 41 percent two years ago.