Education has acquired a kind of snob value in modern times. We are no longer content
to be honest craftsmen, skilled at our work through years of patient practice. Nowadays if we want to get a decent job, we have to have a piece of paper. If we want promotion in even the humblest job, we have to obtain a certificate or a diploma first. We may know that we would be better at the job than the man with the paper qualifications, but our experience and practical skills are regarded as relatively unimportant. "Johnson would have been manager by now if he'd taken the trouble to get a degree," his colleagues say, "he's a clever man. He could have done anything if he'd had a proper education."
I wonder if, as time goes on, we shall discover that many people, whose practical experience and ability would have been enormously useful to their employers, have been rejected on the grounds that they are insufficiently qualified. Would it not be better to allow people to become expert in the way most suited to them, rather than oblige them to follow a set course of instruction which may offer no opportunity for them to develop skills in which they would have become expert if left to themselves?
1.By the first sentence in Para. One, the writer perhaps means ____.
A、education has acquired a pleasant value
B、education is ignored by the public
C、too much attention is paid to degrees in education
D、too little attention is paid to degrees in education
2.According to the passage, if we want to get promotion nowadays we have to ____.
A、produce proof of our qualification
B、write a paper about our qualifications
C、apply to take a certificate
D、apply for a diploma course
3.From the passage we understand that his colleagues think that Johnson ____.
A、should have been given a degree
B、would have been able to get a degree
C、couldn't have done anything without a degree
D、would become manager even without a degree
4.The writer fears that without paper qualifications many people ____.
A、won't get proper education
B、will prove useless in their job
C、will be dismissed from their job
D、won't be considered for a job
5.In the writer's opinion it would be better if people ____.
A、were forced to take a diploma
B、were free to become educated in their own way
C、attended more practical courses
D、attended courses intended for experts