Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
It’s true that high-school coding classes aren’t essential for learning computer science in college. Students without experience can catch up after a few introductory courses, said Tom Cortina, the assistant dean at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science.
However, Cortina said, early exposure is beneficial. When younger kids learn computer science, they learn that it’s not just a confusing, endless string of letters and numbers—but a tool to build apps, or create artwork, or test hypotheses. It’s not as hard for them to transform their thought processes as it is for older students. Breaking down problems into bite-sized chunks and using code to solve them becomes normal. Giving more children this training could increase the number of people interested in the field and help fill the jobs gap, Cortina said.
Students also benefit from learning something about coding before they get to college, where introductory computer-science classes are packed to the brim, which can drive the less-experienced or -determined students away.
The Flatiron School, where people pay to learn programming, started as one of the many coding bootcamps that’s become popular for adults looking for a career change. The high-schoolers get the same curriculum, but “we try to gear lessons toward things they’re interested in,” said Victoria Friedman, an instructor. For instance, one of the apps the students are developing suggests movies based on your mood.
The students in the Flatiron class probably won’t drop out of high school and build the next Facebook. Programming languages have a quick turnover, so the “Ruby on Rails” language they learned may not even be relevant by the time they enter the job market. But the skills they learn—how to think logically through a problem and organize the results—apply to any coding language, said Deborah Seehorn, an education consultant for the state of North Carolina.
Indeed, the Flatiron students might not go into IT at all. But creating a future army of coders is not the sole purpose of the classes. These kids are going to be surrounded by computers—in their pockets, in their offices, in their homes—for the rest of their lives. The younger they learn how computers think, how to coax the machine into producing what they want—the earlier they learn that they have the power to do that—the better.
1、21. Cortina holds that early exposure to computer science makes it easier to ________.
A complete future job training
B remodel the way of thinking
C formulate logical hypotheses
D perfect artwork production
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题干中的Cortina和early exposure to computer science可定位至文章第二段第一句和第三句。第二段首句指出，早点接触计算机科学是有益处的；该段第二句介绍了早点接触计算机科学的好处；再根据该段第三句可知，早接触计算机科学让人更容易转变思维方式，原文中的not as hard对应题干中的make it easier，B项内容是对原文transform their thought processes的同义转述，因此选择B项。
错项排除：文章指出让更多的儿童接受这种培训能够弥补岗位空缺，但并未说明能够让人更容易完成职业训练，因此排除A项。第二段第二句提及artwork和hypotheses，指的是儿童学习计算机科学能够用于艺术创作或验证假设，但并未说明会使提出逻辑假设和完成艺术制作更容易，因此排除C项和D项。
长难句分析：When younger kids learn computer science, they learn that it’s not just a confusing, endless string of letters and numbers—but a tool to build apps, or create artwork, or test hypotheses.
本句的句子主干为they learn that…，其中when引导的时间状语，that引导宾语从句，其后的不定式结构to build apps, or create artwork, or test hypotheses作后置定语，修饰a tool，用于对tool的用途作具体说明。
句意为：当小孩学习计算机科学时，他们学习的不仅仅是一连串令人困惑并且无止境的字母和数字——而是一个开发应用程序、创作艺术品或验证假设的工具。
2、22. In delivering lessons for high-schoolers, Flatiron has considered their ________.
A experience
B academic backgrounds
C career prospects
D interest
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题干中的high-schoolers和Flatiron可定位至第四段第二句。根据定位句可知，熨斗学校会上同样的课程，但会考虑孩子们的兴趣。things they’re interested in就是本题的答案所在，因此正确答案为D项。
错项排除：根据该段首句become popular for adults looking for a career change可知，寻求职业改变的年轻人有丰富的职业经验，但对于高中生来说，学校不会在授课时，考虑他们是否有经验，因此排除A项。文章并未提及有关学术背景的信息，因此排除B项。文章中提及寻求职业改变的年轻人，但并未说明教授课程时会考虑学生的职业前景，因此排除C项。
3、23. Deborah Seehorn believes that the skills learned at Flatiron will ________.
A help students learn other computer languages
B have to be upgraded when new technologies come
C need improving when students look for jobs
D enable students to make big quick money
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题干中的Deborah Seehorn可定位至第五段最后一句。第五段前半部分说到，编程语言更新换代很快，他们所学的东西在进入就业市场时可能就不相关了。随后定位句用But开头表示转折。根据定位句中的apply to any coding language可知，学生所学习的任何的技能都可以应用到任何编程语言中，也就是说学生学到的技能可以帮助他们学习其他的计算机语言。因此A项正确。
错项排除：文章第五段第二句虽然提出，编程语言更新很快，到学生就业时可能已经过时了，但与题干中的skills无关，也不是黛博拉·塞洪的观点，因此B项和C项错误。D项在文章中未提及，故排除。
4、24. According to the last paragraph, Flatiron students are expected to ________.
A compete with a future army of programmers
B stay longer in the information technology industry
C become better prepared for the digitalized world
D bring forth innovative computer technologies
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题干中的the last paragraph和Flatiron students可定位至文章最后一段。根据最后一段可知，熨斗学校的学生将会被电脑包围，人们越早学习电脑的思维方式越好，由此可知，熨斗学校还致力于让人们为将来的数字化世界做好准备，因此选择C项。
错项排除：文章最后一段首句指出，熨斗学校的学生不会全都进入信息技术行业，因此排除A项和B项。文章未提及计算机技术创新，因此排除D项。
5、25. The word “coax” (Line 4, Para. 6) is closest in meaning to ________.
A challenge
B persuade
C frighten
D misguide
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题干中的Line 4, Para. 6可定位至最后一段第四句。how to coax the machine into producing what they want与上文的how computers think并列，都是学生要学习的内容，意在指出人们可以利用计算机制造自己想要的东西，因此“coax”应为积极的意思，B项符合题意。
错项排除：A、C和D项均含负面意思，不能表达计算机带来的正面帮助，因此排除。
Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
Biologists estimate that as many as 2 million lesser prairie chickens—a kind of bird living on stretching grasslands—once lent red to the often gray landscape of the midwestern and southwestern United States. But just some 22,000 birds remain today, occupying about 16% of the species’ historic range.
The crash was a major reason the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) decided to formally list the bird as threatened. “The lesser prairie chicken is in a desperate situation,” said USFWS Director Daniel Ashe. Some environmentalists, however, were disappointed. They had pushed the agency to designate the bird as “endangered,” a status that gives federal officials greater regulatory power to crack down on threats. But Ashe and others argued that the “threatened” tag gave the federal government flexibility to try out new, potentially less confrontational conservation approaches. In particular, they called for forging closer collaborations with western state governments, which are often uneasy with federal action, and with the private landowners who control an estimated 95% of the prairie chicken’s habitat.
Under the plan, for example, the agency said it would not prosecute landowners or businesses that unintentionally kill, harm, or disturb the bird, as long as they had signed a range-wide management plan to restore prairie chicken habitat. Negotiated by USFWS and the states, the plan requires individuals and businesses that damage habitat as part of their operations to pay into a fund to replace every acre destroyed with 2 new acres of suitable habitat. The fund will also be used to compensate landowners who set aside habitat. USFWS also set an interim goal of restoring prairie chicken populations to an annual average of 67,000 birds over the next 10 years. And it gives the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA), a coalition of state agencies, the job of monitoring progress. Overall, the idea is to let “states remain in the driver’s seat for managing the species,” Ashe said.
Not everyone buys the win-win rhetoric. Some Congress members are trying to block the plan, and at least a dozen industry groups, four states, and three environmental groups are challenging it in federal court. Not surprisingly, industry groups and states generally argue it goes too far; environmentalists say it doesn’t go far enough. “The federal government is giving responsibility for managing the bird to the same industries that are pushing it to extinction,” says biologist Jay Lininger.
6、26. The major reason for listing the lesser prairie chicken as threatened is ________.
A its drastically decreased population
B the underestimate of the grassland acreage
C a desperate appeal from some biologists
D the insistence of private landowners
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题干中的major reason和threatened可定位至第二段首句。定位句提及The crash was a major reason的crash指首段中的小松鸡的数量由以往的200万降到2.2万只，因此选择A项。
错项排除：文章未提及草原面积被低估，因此排除B项。文章中环保主义者对将小松鸡列为濒危感到不满，所以要求相关机构采取措施，并非生物学家的态度，因此排除C项。文章中提及一些与土地所有者相关的措施，但并未说明他们的态度和观点，因此排除D项。
7、27. The “threatened” tag disappointed some environmentalists in that it ________.
A was a give-in to governmental pressure
B would involve fewer agencies in action
C granted less federal regulatory power
D went against conservation policies
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题干中的The “threatened” tag和disappointed可定位至第二段第三句，该句指出一些环保主义者对把这种鸟类列入“受威胁的物种”感到失望。定位句后一句表明了原因，作者提到他们之前呼吁将小松鸡列为濒危物种，因为这样可以使联邦政府利用更多的权力。由此可知他们失望是因为“受威胁物种”的标签赋予联邦政府的权力较小，因此C项符合题意。
错项排除：A项和D项在文章中未提及，故排除。文章未提及“受威胁”下涉及的部门会少，只是赋予的权力较少，因此排除B项。
8、28. It can be learned from Paragraph 3 that unintentional harm-doers will not be prosecuted if they ________.
A agree to pay a sum for compensation
B volunteer to set up an equally big habitat
C offer to support the WAFWA monitoring job
D promise to raise funds for USFWS operations
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题干中的Paragraph 3和unintentional harm-doers可定位至文章第三段第一句。根据定位句后一句可知，鱼类和野生动物管理局的计划是不起诉无意中破坏栖息地的人，条件是他们缴纳一定的费用，用于确保栖息地的替代并补偿保留栖息地的土地所有者，因此正确答案为A项。
错项排除：文章指出破坏栖息地需要支付赔偿金，而金额是按照被破坏面积来算，需要支付两倍的栖息地赔偿金，B项中的equally不符合，故排除。文章提及的西部鱼类和野生动物管理局的监控工作与破坏无关，WAFWA只是受USFWS委托监控进度，因此排除C项。原文提及一旦造成破坏，要支付赔偿金，而非募集，因此排除D项。
9、29. According to Ashe, the leading role in managing the species is ________.
A the federal government
B the wildlife agencies
C the landowners
D the states
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题干中的Ashe和managing the species可定位至第三段最后一句。根据定位句可知，各州政府始终掌控物种管理大局，remain in the driver’s seat意为“处于控制地位”，对应题干中的leading role。因此正确答案为D项。
错项排除：文章指出管理局的政策被保护主义者指责削弱了联邦政府的执法权力，因此排除A项。野生动物管理局只是筹划者，因此排除B项。文章并未提及土地所有者是物种管理方面的主力，因此排除C项。
长难句分析：Negotiated by USFWS and the states, the plan requires individuals and businesses that damage habitat as part of their operations to pay into a fund to replace every acre destroyed with 2 new acres of suitable habitat.
本句的主干为the plan requires individuals and businesses...to pay into a fund…。句首的Negotiated by…是过去分词作状语。that引导定语从句，修饰individuals and businesses，而之后的动词不定式to replace...作目的状语，用于表示收取赔偿金的目的所在。
句意为：该计划由美国鱼类和野生动物管理局和各州共同协商，要求因自身业务运作而破坏栖息地的个人和企业要缴纳基金，确保每亩被破坏的栖息地由两亩新的适居栖息地代替。
10、30. Jay Lininger would most likely support ________.
A industry groups
B the win-win rhetoric
C environmental groups
D the plan under challenge
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题干中的Jay Lininger可定位至文章最后一句，该句指出生物学家认为联邦政府把管理这种鸟的责任推给了那些使它们濒临灭绝的产业。根据上文可知生物学家和环保人士都认为管理局执法力度不够，不能有效保护濒危动物，因此杰·利宁格的观点应与环保组织一致。
错项排除：文章指出，行业组织认为该做法过于激进，由此可知环保组织和行业组织的看法正好对立，因此排除A项。该段开头指出企业和环保人士不认同双赢论调，因此B项错误。该段主要讲述了对管理局和其双赢论调的反对之声，D项和B项其实指的是同一内容，因此排除D项。
Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
That everyone’s too busy these days is a cliché. But one specific complaint is made especially mournfully: There’s never any time to read.
What makes the problem thornier is that the usual time-management techniques don’t seem sufficient. The web’s full of articles offering tips on making time to read: “Give up TV” or “Carry a book with you at all times.” But in my experience, using such methods to free up the odd 30 minutes doesn’t work. Sit down to read and the flywheel of work-related thoughts keeps spinning—or else you’re so exhausted that a challenging book’s the last thing you need. The modern mind, Tim Parks, a novelist and critic, writes, “is overwhelmingly inclined toward communication… It is not simply that one is interrupted; it is that one is actually inclined to interruption.” Deep reading requires not just time, but a special kind of time which can’t be obtained merely by becoming more efficient.
In fact, “becoming more efficient” is part of the problem. Thinking of time as a resource to be maximised means you approach it instrumentally, judging any given moment as well spent only in so far as it advances progress toward some goal. Immersive reading, by contrast, depends on being willing to risk inefficiency, goallessness, even time-wasting. Try to slot it as a to-do list item and you’ll manage only goal-focused reading—useful sometimes, but not the most fulfilling kind. “The future comes at us like empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor belt,” writes Gary Eberle in his book Sacred Time, and “we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles (days, hours, minutes) as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them”. No mind-set could be worse for losing yourself in a book.
So what does work? Perhaps surprisingly, scheduling regular times for reading. You’d think this might fuel the efficiency mind-set, but in fact, Eberle notes, such ritualistic behaviour helps us “step outside time’s flow” into “soul time.” You could limit distractions by reading only physical books, or on single-purpose e-readers. “Carry a book with you at all times” can actually work, too—providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down. On a really good day, it no longer feels as if you’re “making time to read,” but just reading, and making time for everything else.
11、31. The usual time-management techniques don’t work because ________.
A what they can offer does not ease the modern mind
B what challenging books demand is repetitive reading
C what people often forget is carrying a book with them
D what deep reading requires cannot be guaranteed
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题干中的usual time-management techniques和don’t work可定位至第二段。根据第二段可知，常见的时间管理技巧不够充足，作者认为这些方法不奏效，随后具体解释了这些方法不奏效的原因——人们挤出时间阅读，却不在状态，而深度阅读需要的不仅仅是时间，还需要阅读状态。由此可知，挤出时间阅读的方法不能满足人们深度阅读所需的条件，因此选择D项。
错项排除：根据文章第五句中的The modern mind可知，现代人喜欢干扰，但是并未提及时间管理方法对其的影响，因此排除A项。B项与题干无关，故排除。C项是对时间管理技巧的举例，不能推测出人们时常忘记随身携带书籍，故排除C项。
12、32. The “empty bottles” metaphor illustrates that people feel a pressure to ________.
A update their to-do lists
B make passing time fulfilling
C carry their plans through
D pursue carefree reading
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题干中的“empty bottles”和pressure可定位至文章第三段第五句。根据定位句可知，时间犹如传送带上不断移来的空瓶子，人们感觉到一种压力，因为需要把它们及时填满，否则就浪费了时间。由此可知，“空瓶子”指人们感到压力是由于要让时间过得有意义。因此选择B项。
错项排除：文章定位句未提及与任务清单有关的内容，也未提及完成计划，故排除A项和C项。D项属于反向干扰，根据上下文语义，人们把空瓶子填满就无法自由自在地阅读，因此排除D项。
13、33. Eberle would agree that scheduling regular times for reading helps ________.
A encourage the efficiency mind-set
B develop online reading habits
C promote ritualistic reading
D achieve immersive reading
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题干中的Eberle和scheduling regular times for reading可定位至最后一段第二句。文章指出，艾伯乐认为这种养成习惯的阅读能帮助我们跳出时间的限制，而进入心灵的时间。由此可知，安排固定时间阅读有助于实现沉浸式阅读，原文中的soul time指的就是D项的immersive reading，故选择D项。
错项排除：本段第三句指出，设定固定的阅读时间可能会让人觉得助长了以效率为重的心态，但随后指出，作者和艾伯乐都不同意这个看法，故排除A项。文章提及使用电子阅读器是为了减少阅读中分散精力的机会，而非有助于培养在线阅读的习惯，因此排除B项。C项中的ritualistic reading和scheduling regular times for reading都是阅读时间管理的手段，而不是要达成的效果，因此排除C项。
14、34. “Carry a book with you at all times” can work if ________.
A reading becomes your primary business of the day
B all the daily business has been promptly dealt with
C you are able to drop back to business after reading
D time can be evenly split for reading and business
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题干中的“Carry a book with you at all times”和if可定位至文章最后一段倒数第二句。文章定位句指出，随身携带书籍的方法奏效的条件是时常浸入阅读，将阅读变成一种阅读习惯，而处理事务只是偶尔为之，即阅读成为每日的首要事情，因此正确答案为A项。
错项排除：定位句提出阅读时偶尔抽身处理事务，但这并非随时随地阅读能够奏效的条件，因此排除B项。文章提出把阅读作为一种日常习惯，即在处理完其他事务后立即回到阅读中，因此排除C项。作者并没有机械地按时间分配阅读和日常事务，因此排除D项。
长难句分析：“Carry a book with you at all times” can actually work, too—providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down.
本句主干为“Carry a book with you at all times” can actually work其后的providing引导条件状语从句，用于表示句子主干内容成立的条件，so that引导结果状语从句。在结果状语从句中，动名词reading作主语，且从句中包含from which引导的定语从句，修饰the default state。
句意为：“总是随身携带一本书”也可以发挥作用，让你能够经常进入阅读状态，并使阅读变成一种日常习惯，可以从中暂时抽身关照一些事物后，再重新浸入阅读中。
15、35. The best title for this text could be ________.
A How to Enjoy Easy Reading
B How to Find Time to Read
C How to Set Reading Goals
D How to Read Extensively
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题干中的best title可定位至全文。作者首段提出人们总感觉没有时间阅读，随后分析了通常的时间管理技巧不奏效的原因，并提出了自己的意见，阐释这种做法有效的原因和条件。文章主要在解决没有时间阅读的问题，即如何帮助人们找到阅读时间，因此选择B项。
错项排除：作者提到的浸入式阅读与轻松阅读不能同等，因此排除A项。作者在第二段中提到深度阅读有时是无目的的，因此C项错误。文章讨论了如何进行深度阅读，而没有讨论阅读的广度，因此排除D项。
Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
Against a backdrop of drastic changes in economy and population structure, younger Americans are drawing a new 21st-century road map to success, a latest poll has found.
Across generational lines, Americans continue to prize many of the same traditional milestones of a successful life, including getting married, having children, owning a home, and retiring in their sixties. But while young and old mostly agree on what constitutes the finish line of a fulfilling life, they offer strikingly different paths for reaching it.
Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public services and a faster pace of life, to agree that couples should be financially secure before getting married or having children, and to maintain that children are best served by two parents working outside the home, the survey found.
From career to community and family, these contrasts suggest that in the aftermath of the searing Great Recession, those just starting out in life are defining priorities and expectations that will increasingly spread through virtually all aspects of American life, from consumer preferences to housing patterns to politics.
Young and old converge on one key point: Overwhelming majorities of both groups said they believe it is harder for young people today to get started in life than it was for earlier generations. While younger people are somewhat more optimistic than their elders about the prospects for those starting out today, big majorities in both groups believe those “just getting started in life” face a tougher climb than earlier generation in reaching such signpost achievements as securing a good-paying job, starting a family, managing debt, and finding affordable housing.
Pete Schneider considers the climb tougher today. Schneider, a 27-year-old auto technician from the Chicago suburbs, says he struggled to find a job after graduating from college. Even now that he is working steadily, he said. “I can’t afford to pay my monthly mortgage payments on my own, so I have to rent rooms out to people to make that happen.” Looking back, he is struck that his parents could provide a comfortable life for their children even though neither had completed college when he was young. “I still grew up in an upper middle-class home with parents who didn’t have college degrees,” Schneider said. “I don’t think people are capable of that anymore.”
16、36. One cross-generation mark of a successful life is ________.
A trying out different lifestyles
B having a family with children
C working beyond retirement age
D setting up a profitable business
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题干中的cross-generation可定位至第二段首句。根据第二段首句可知，跨越不同的年代，美国人仍然珍视某些成功人生的传统里程碑，包括结婚、生子、买房和退休。因此B项符合题意。
错项排除：文章未提及尝试不同的生活方式，因此排除A项。C项与定位句意思相反，故排除。D项在文章中未提及，故排除。
17、37. It can be learned from Paragraph 3 that young people tend to ________.
A favor a slower life pace
B hold an occupation longer
C attach importance to pre-marital finance
D give priority to childcare outside the home
答案解析：
答案精析：根据第三段可知，美国年轻人对工作生活有许多观念倾向，其中作者提到年轻人在婚前会确保双方的经济安全，由此可知，年轻人看重婚前的经济条件。因此选择C项。
错项排除：文章指出，年轻人喜欢快节奏的生活和定期换工作，因此排除A项和B项。文章指出只有父母都外出工作才能给孩子提供更好的生活，而不是家庭外的儿童保育，因此排除D项。
长难句分析：Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public services and a faster pace of life, to agree that couples should be financially secure before getting married or having children, and to maintain that children are best served by two parents working outside the home, the survey found.
本句主干为Young people…were more likely…to prioritize…to believe…to favor…to agree that…to maintain that…。谓语成分由多个并列的不定式充当，其中believe, agree和maintain后面都跟的是宾语从句，作句子主干的宾语。句首的who are still getting started in life是由who引导的定语从句修饰Young people，用于对主语做进一步描述。句末的the survey found作插入语，用于表明句子内容的来源。
句意为：调查发现，与较年长的成年人相比，刚刚开启人生的年轻人更重视在工作中实现个人价值，他们认为定期换工作最能促进事业；愿意住在有更多公共设施的社区，喜欢快节奏的生活；他们认为夫妻在结婚和生孩子前必须有经济保障并坚信在有孩子以后，父母双方还是应该工作，这样才能给小孩最好的生活。
18、38. The priorities and expectations defined by the young will ________.
A become increasingly clear
B focus on materialistic issues
C depend largely on political preferences
D reach almost all aspects of American life
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题干中的priorities and expectations可定位至第四段。根据第四段后半部分可知，年轻人的首要顾虑和期望渗透到美国生活的所有方面，原文中spread through virtually all aspects of American life指的就是D项的内容，因此选择D项。
错项排除：文章未提及对首要顾虑和期望的定义，因此排除A项。该段最后提到这些定义涉及从消费倾向、居住结构到政治领域，B、C两项只是会考虑的内容之一而已，不能代表所有方面。因此排除B项和C项。
19、39. Both young and old agree that ________.
A good-paying jobs are less available
B the old made more life achievements
C housing loans today are easy to obtain
D getting established is harder for the young
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题干中的Both young and old agree可定位至第五段第一句。定位句指出，年轻人和年长者对于一点有共识：与前辈相比，年轻人在社会上起步变得更加艰难。随后进一步说明虽然年轻人更加乐观一些，但大多数人都认为年轻人在工作、家庭、财务和住房等方面面临着更大的困难。由此可推断，年轻人更难站稳脚跟了。因此正确答案为D项。
错项排除：文章只说到年轻人在找高薪工作方面有困难，未提及高薪工作变少的例子，因此排除A项。文章提及年长者比后辈更容易取得成功，但并未对成功多少进行比较，故排除B项。文章第五段段末提到年轻人在住房方面还是存在困难，但未提到住房贷款容易获得，因此排除C项。
20、40. Which of the following is true about Schneider?
A He found a dream job after graduating from college.
B His parents believe working steadily is a must for success.
C His parents’ good life has little to do with a college degree.
D He thinks his job as a technician quite challenging.
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题干中的Schneider可定位至文章最后一段。根据文章最后一段可知，施耐德的父母没有完成高等教育，仍然可以给他提供优越的生活，由此可知，他父母的美好生活和大学文凭并没有什么关系。因此正确答案为C项。
错项排除：文章最后一段只提到毕业后好不容易找到一份工作而未提及是否是梦想的工作，因此排除A项。文章未提及他对父母工作稳定的评价，因此排除B项。文章只提到施耐德的工作是机车技师，并未谈到他对这份工作的看法，因此排除D项。
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