关于未来生活的四大终极幻想_BEC初级作文

关于未来生活的四大终极幻想

考试将变得更加集中——甚至会变得更加重要，州级评估考试将给国家考试让路，而且以考核技能为主的测试将成为实现职业规划的快速通道。“与大学学位相比，通过严格的资格认证考试获得的证书在就业市场上将具有更高的价值，”非盈利教育机构可汗学院（Khan Academy）的萨尔??汗补充道。

And corporations, frustrated by the skills gap of high school grads, may open schools of their own. Wal-Mart High, anyone?

除此之外，由于高中毕业生并未掌握技术，企业有可能创办自己的学校。比如沃尔玛高中（Wal-Mart High）。有人报名吗？

—Daniel Roberts

——丹尼尔·罗伯兹

Banking

银行业

Big U.S. banks get even bigger

美国银行巨头进一步扩张

Looking at them now, nursing self-inflicted wounds from the financial crisis, it seems hard to believe that America's big banks could be even bigger and stronger a decade from now. But that's the scenario many industry analysts envision.

美国的大型银行自作自受，眼下正在舔舐着金融危机带来的创伤。眼前的情形很难让我们相信，在未来的十年内，美国的大型银行将进一步扩大规模和势力。但是，这确实是行业分析师们的预见到的情形。

Once the euro crisis clears and America fixes its mortgage mess, giants like J.P. Morgan will enter a new era of expansion. Yes, new regulations will impose higher costs and reduce once-lucrative trading profits, resulting in far slower growth for the largest players. But those regulations will also make it tougher for others to challenge their top positions. Investment banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley won't be able to use the levels of leverage they once did to boost revenue-generating trading operations, making them prey for the megabanks.