Students have become obsessed with building impressive CVs. But isn’t there

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问题 Students have become obsessed with building impressive CVs. But isn’t there more to life(1)_____ laying the foundations for your future(2)_____? This preoccupation with CV-building is(3)_____ the pressure on people in today’s society to be conspicuously(4)_____. You have only to turn on the TV to be(5)_____ that a lot of people have achieved far more than you at a younger age. This creates a feeling of(6)_____ to do something extraordinary as quickly as possible—or(7)_____ to find a way of(8)_____ yourself as extraordinary.
Almost like a business, we are managing our time and effort to develop a brand(9)_____ we present to the world. One(10)_____ is our Face-book page: we constantly sift through pictures and information, deciding what to share and what to (11)______. When it comes to our CVs, we are (12)_____ having experiences that we can list as "achievements".
In today’s jobs market, the message is clear: good grades are no longer enough. We need an impressive list of extracurricular activities that (13)_____ us from all the other smart and motivated students: we need some(14)_____ work-experience; we need to volunteer; we should have done some work for a charity or(15)_____ our time to some impressive hobbies.(16)______, we need to prove to our future employers that we are unique, and a perfect fit for the job they’re(17)_____.
A CV doesn’t really say anything about the authentic person(18)_____ it because the entire thing is carefully constructed around the expectations of future employers.(19)_____ we all like to pretend we did those volunteering jobs or unpaid internships because we loved them, many of us were trying to(20)_____ our chances of getting a good job. [br] (15)

选项 A、attended
B、spent
C、devoted
D、involved

答案 C

解析四个选项中，只有devoted能与其后的to搭配，表示“致力于”，选C。attend“参加”；spend“花费”；involve“参与”。

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