CCTV9英语新闻：2013高校毕业生就业率为67.4%_在线英语听力室

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A blue paper published on Tuesday shows the graduation and employment status of Chinese students in 2013. Last year, the number of graduate students reached a record high of nearly seven million.

The initial employment rate for postgraduate¹ students stood at over 85 percent. Employment rate for diploma holders² was almost 80%, while the rate for undergraduate students was surprisingly low at less than 70 percent.

When it comes to salary, Phd graduates gets an average starting salary at almost nine thousand Yuan, or one and a half thousand US dollars, while college graduates and diploma holders earn around three thousand and two thousand yuan respectively.

The top five factors for students to consider when choosing a job are development prospects³, skill relevance⁴, welfare benefits, job stability and salary.

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1 postgraduate
adj.大学毕业后的，大学研究院的；n.研究生
参考例句：
I didn't put down that I had postgraduate degree.我没有写上我有硕士学位。 After college,Mary hopes to do postgraduate work in law school.大学毕业后，玛丽想在法学院从事研究工作。

2 holders
支持物( holder的名词复数 )；持有者；（支票等）持有人；支托（或握持）…之物
参考例句：
Slaves were mercilessly ground down by slave holders. 奴隶受奴隶主的残酷压迫。 It is recognition of compassion's part that leads the up-holders of capital punishment to accuse the abolitionists of sentimentality in being more sorry for the murderer than for his victim. 正是对怜悯的作用有了认识，才使得死刑的提倡者指控主张废除死刑的人感情用事，同情谋杀犯胜过同情受害者。

3 prospects
n.希望，前途(恒为复数)
参考例句：
There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。 They are less sanguine about the company's long-term prospects. 他们对公司的远景不那么乐观。

4 relevance
n.中肯，适当，关联，相关性
参考例句：
Politicians' private lives have no relevance to their public roles.政治家的私生活与他们的公众角色不相关。 Her ideas have lost all relevance to the modern world.她的想法与现代社会完全脱节。

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CCTV9英语新闻：2013高校毕业生就业率为67.4%