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Organized volunteering and work experience has long been a vital companion to university degree course. Usually it is left to（1）to deduce the potential from a list of extracurricular adventures on a graduate's resume, （2）now the University of Bristol has launched an award to formalize the achievements of students who （3）time to activities outside their courses. Bristol PLUS aims to boost students in an increasingly （4）job market by helping them acquire work and life skills alongside（5）qualifications.“Our students are a pretty active bunch but we found that they didn't（6）appreciate the value of what they did（7）the lecture hall，” says Jeff Good man, director of careers and employability at the university. “Employers are much more （8）than they used to be. They used to look for（9）and saw it as part of their job to extract the value of an applicant's skills. Now they want students to be able to explain why those skills are（10）to the job."Students who sign（11）for the award will be expected to complete 50 hours of work experience or（12）work, attend four workshops on employability- skill, take part in an intensive skill-related activity, （13）crucially, write a summary of the skills they have gained. （14）efforts will gain an Outstanding Achievement Award. Those who（15）best on the sports field can take the Sporting PLUS Award which fosters employer-friendly sports accomplishments.The experience does not have to be（16）organized. "We're not just interested in easily identifiable skills,' says Goodman. “ （17）one student took the lead in dealing with a difficult landlord and so（18）negotiation skills. We try to make the experience relevant to individual lives.”Goodman hopes the （19）will enable active students to fill in any gaps in their experience and encourage their less-active （20）to take up activities outside their academic area of work.
Terri: Derrick, don’t you think you should take a vacation? Even one or two days would be fine.Derrick:（ ）There’s too much work.
Life in the country is quite different from（ ）in the city.
All around the world, lawyers generate more hostility than the members of any other profession— with the possible exception of journalism. But there are few places where clients have more grounds for complaint than America.During the decade before the economic crisis, spending on legal services in America grew twice as fast as inflation. The best lawyers made skyscrapers-full of money, tempting ever more students to pile into law schools. But most law graduates never get a big-firm job. Many of them instead become the kind of nuisance-lawsuit filer that makes the tort system a costly nightmare.There are many reasons for this. One is the excessive costs of a legal education. There is just one path for a lawyer in most American states: a four-year undergraduate degree in some unrelated subject, then a three-year law degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the bar exam. This leaves today's average law-school graduate with $100,000 of debt on top of undergraduate debts. Law-school debt means that they have to work fearsomely hard.Reforming the system would help both lawyers and their customers. Sensible ideas have been around for a long time, but the state-level bodies that govern the profession have been too conservative to implement them. One idea is to allow people to study law as an undergraduate degree. Another is to let students sit for the bar after only two years of law school. If the bar exam is truly a stern enough test for a would-be lawyer, those who can sit it earlier should be allowed to do so. Students who do not need the extra training could cut their debt mountain by a third.The other reason why costs are so high is the restrictive guild-like ownership structure of the business. Except in the District of Columbia, non-lawyers may not own any share of a law firm. This keeps fees high and innovation slow. There is pressure for change from within the profession, but opponents of change among the regulators insist that keeping outsiders out of a law firm isolates lawyers from the pressure to make money rather than serve clients ethically.In
After the storm caused raw sewage to seep into the ground water, the Water Department had to take measures to（ ）the city’s water supply.