Section III Reading Comprehension
Directions:
Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)
Passage One
Scholastic thinkers held a wide variety of doctrines in both philosophy and theology, the study of religion. What gives unity to the whole Scholastic movement, the academic practice in Europe form the 9th to the 17th centuries, are the common aims, attitudes, and methods generally accepted by all its members. The chief concern of the Scholastics was not to discover new facts but to integrate the knowledge already acquired separately by Greek reasoning and Christian revelation. This concern is one of the most characteristic differences between Scholasticism and modern thought since the renaissance.
The basic aim of the Scholastics determined certain common attitudes, the most important of which was their conviction of the fundamental harmony between reason and revelation. The Scholastics maintained that because the same God was the source of both types of knowledge and truth was one of his chief attributes, he could not contradict himself in these two ways of speaking. Any apparent opposition between revelation and reason could be traced either to an incorrect use of reason or to an inaccurate interpretation of the words of revelation. Because the Scholastics believed that revelation was the direct teaching of God, it possessed for them a higher degree of truth and certainty than did natural reason. In apparent conflicts between religious faith and philosophic reasoning, faith was thus always the supreme arbiter; the theologians’ decision overruled that of the philosopher. After the early 13th century, Scholastic thought emphasized more the independence of philosophy within its own domain. Nonetheless, throughout the scholastic period, philosophy was called the servant of theology, not only because the truth of philosophy was subordinated to that of theology, but also because the theologian used philosophy to understand and explain revelation.
This attitude of Scholasticism stands in sharp contrast to the so-called double-truth theory of the Spanish-Arab philosopher and physician Averroes. His theory assumer that truth was accessible to both philosophy and Islamic theology but that only philosophy could attain it perfectly. The so-called truths of theology served, hence, as imperfect imaginative expressions for the common people of the authentic truth accessible only to philosophy. Averroes maintained that philosophic truth could even contradict, at least verbally, the teachings of Islamic theology.
As a result of their belief in the harmony between faith and reason, the Scholastics attempted to determine the precise scope and competence of each of these faculties. Many early Scholastics, such as the Italian ecclesiastic and philosopher St. Anselm, did not clearly distinguish the two and were overconfident that reason could prove certain doctrines of revelation. Later, at the height of the mature period of Scholasticism, the Italian theologian and philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas worked out a balance between reason and revelation.
41. With the Scholastics, the search for new knowledge
A. stopped completely B. slowed down.
C. advanced rapidly D. awaked gradually.
42. Which of the following best illustrates the relation between reason and revelation?
A. They are simply identical.
B. Revelation guides reason.
C. They are occasionally contradictory.
D. Reason is used to perfect revelation.
43. It can be inferred from Paragraph 2 that
A. the position of philosophy as a humble servant was accepted.
B. religion had turned into a hamper to the functioning of philosophy.
C. philosophers often sometimes referred to in religious practice.
D. philosophers were sometimes referred to in religious practice.
44. According to the passage, Averroes held that
A. Islamic theology was often subordinate to philosophy.
B. religious truth was nothing but imaginative fantasy.
C. real truth was inaccessible to many common people.
D. imperfect expressions were result of flawed religion.
45. Which of the following is most likely to be discussed in the part succeeding the passage?
A. Relations of St. T. Aquinas’ achievements to previous efforts.
B. How St. T. Aquinas worked out in the balance in discussion.
C. Other endeavors on the relationship of reason and revelation.
D. Outstanding features of the mature period of Scholasticism.
Passage Two
Global energy demand is expected to triple by mid-century. The earth is unlikely to run out of fossil fuels by then, given its vast reserves of coal, but it seems unthinkable that we will continue to use them as we do now. It’s not just a question of supply and price, or even of the disease caused by filthy air. The terrorist assault on the World Trade Center raises other scary scenarios: how much easier would it be to bomb a nuclear plant than to attack a wind arm?
Skeptics may recall the burst of enthusiasm for conservation and renewable power when oil prices quadrupled in the 1970s. State-funded energy research and development surged, while tax incentives boosted solar, wind and other alternatives to petroleum and the atom. But when oil supplies loosened and prices dropped in the early 1990s, governments lost interest. In the state of California, subsidies evaporated, pushing wind companies into bankruptcy.
Clean energy has long way to go. Only 2.2% of the world’s energy comes from “new” renewable such as small hydroelectric dams, wind, solar and geothermal. How to boost that share-and at what pace-is debated in industrialized nations-from Japan, which imports 99.7% of its oil, to Germany, where the nearby Chernobyl accident turned the public against nuclear plants, to the U.S., where the Bush Administration has strong ties to the oil industry. But the momentum toward clean renewable is undeniable. How soon we reach an era of clean, inexhaustible energy depends on technology. Solar and wind energies are intermittent: When the sky is cloudy or the breeze dies down, fossil fuel or nuclear plants must kick into compensate. But scientists are working on better ways to store electricity from renewable sources.
While developed nations debate how to fuel their power plants, however, some 1.6 billion people-a quarter of the globe’s population-have no access to electricity or gasoline. Many spend their days collecting firewood and cow dung, burning it in primitive stoves that belch smoke into their lunge. To emerge from poverty, they need modern energy. And renewable can help. From village-scale hydropower to household photovoltaic systems to bio-gas stoves that convert dung into fuel.
Ultimately, the earth can meet its energy needs without fouling the environment. “But it won’t happen,” asserts Thomas Johansson, an energy adviser to the United Nations Development Program, “without political will.” To begin with, widespread government subsidies for fossil fuels and nuclear energy must be dismantled to level the playing field for renewable. Moreover, government should pressure utility to meet targets for renewable sources of energy.
46. The author’s biggest worry about using unclear energy is that
A. it will do great harm to the inadequate reserves of coal.
B. it is deadly if terrorists attack a nuclear plant.
C. it will limit the development of many other alternatives.
D. there will be a wider gap between developed and developing countries.
47. The renewable energy research lost support from governments in the early 1990s because
A. skeptics were becoming doubtful about the efficiency of renewable.
B. renewable could not meet the increasing energy needs of the society.
C. it was much easier and cheaper to use oil than before.
D. the investment into the field was not worth its value.
48. Which one of the following applies to the use of renewable in developed nations?
A. The more developed a nation is, the higher the proportion of renewable being used.
B. Developed nations are experiencing a fierce energy revolution.
C. Developed nations’ ties with the oil industry are becoming tense.
D. Developed nations haven’t reached a consensus about using more renewable.
49. From the passage, we can conclude that
A. it will be impossible for wind and solar energy to completely replace fossil fuels.
B. high technology plays a vital role in the trend toward clean energy.
C. the development of a nation will inevitably pollute the environment.
D. poor areas are badly polluted and are in high need of renewable energy.
50. The author’s purpose of writing this passage is to
A. urges the governments to take effective measures
B. illustrate the urgent demand of clean energy
C. en courage developed nations to set up an example in the energy revolution.
D. elaborate the difficulties in the use of clean energy
Passage Three
The United States in the 1990s has had seven years of economic boom with low unemployment, low inflation, and low government deficit. Amid all of this good news, inequality has increased and wages have barely risen. Common sense knowledge seems to be right in this instance, that is, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class is shrinking. Though President Clinton boasts that the number of people on welfare has decreased significantly under his regime to 8 million, a 44% decline from 1994, he forgets that there are still 36.5 million poor people in the United States, which is only a 2% decline in the same amount of time. How is it possible that we have increasing inequality during economic prosperity?
This contradiction is not easily explained by the dominant neoclassical economic discourse of our time. Nor is it resolved by neoconservative social policy. More helpful is the one book under review: James K. Galbraith’s Created Unequal, a Keynesian analysis of increasing wage inequality.
James K. Galbraith provides a multicausal analysis that blames the current free market monetary policy for the increasing wage inequality. He calls for a rebellion in economic analysis and policy and for a reapplication of Keynesian macroeconomics to solve the problem. In Created Unequal, Galbraith successfully debunks the conservative contention that wage inequality is necessary because the new skill-based technological innovation requires educated workers who are in short supply. For Galbraith, this is a fantasy. He also critiques their two other assertions: first, that global competition requires an increase in inequality and that the maintenance of inequality is necessary to fight inflation. He points to transfer payments that are mediated by the state: payment to the poor in the form of welfare is minor relative to payment to the elderly in the form of social security or to the rich in the form of interest on public and private debt.
Galbraith minimizes the social indicators of race, gender, and class and tells us that these are not important in understanding wage inequality. What is important is Keynesian macroeconomics. To make this point, he introduces a sect oral analysis of the economy. Here knowledge is dominant (the K-sector) and the producers of consumption goods (the C-sector) are in decline. The third sector is large and low paid (the S-sector). The K-sector controls the new technologies and wields monopoly power. Both wages and profit decline in the other two sectors. As a result of monopoly, power inequality increases.
51. The author accuses President Clinton of
A. being too optimistic about the economic prosperity
B. lying about the economic situation to the pubic
C. increasing the number of people on welfare
D. being reluctant to raise the salary of the average people
52. According to the passage, Galbraith’s book
A. is devoted to analyzing why economic boom usually goes with wage inequality.
B. reviews the dominant neoclassical economic discourse of our time.
C. recommends resolving the present problem by neoconservative social policy.
D. attributes the present increasing wage inequality to several factors.
53. According to the conservative theory, wage inequality is necessary because
A. it is a condition created by the labor market.
B. there is an overall decline in the world’s economy.
C. technological innovation has not produced the desired result.
D. the number of people on welfare has decreased.
54. To which of the following statements would Galbraith agree?
A. The new skill-based technological innovation initiates the present wage inequality.
B. The maintenance of wage inequality is necessary to fighting inflation.
C. Worldwide competition entails an increase in wage inequality.
D. Transfer payment to the rich has made the rich even richer.
55. “Monopoly” (in the last sentence) in the passage refers to
A. the exclusive control of the market forces by the rich.
B. the dominant control of the new technologies by a particular sector
C. the powerful control of the K-sector over the C-and S-sectors
D. the ignorance of the social indicators of race, gender, and class in understanding inequality
Passage Four
Another month, another dismal set of job figures. America pulled out of its last economic recession way back in November 2001, yet the country’s “jobs recession” finished only last autumn, when 2.7 million jobs had been lost since the stare of the showdown. Now, though economic growth has bounced back, new jobs refuse to do the same in this, the third year of recovery. In February, a mere 21,000 jobs were created, according to the official payroll survey, at a time when George Bush’s economists forecast 2.6 million new jobs for 2004 mounting alarm at the White House, and increased calls for protection against what a growing number of Americans see as the root of most ills: the “outsourcing” of jobs to places like China and India. Last week the Senate approved a bill that forbids the outsourcing of government contracts-a curious case of a government guaranteeing not to deliver value-for-money to taxpayers. American anxiety over the economy spears to have tipper over into paranoia and self-delusion.
Too strong? Not really. As The Economist has recently argued-though in the face of many angry readers-the jobs lost are mainly a cyclical affair, not a structural one. They must also be set against the 24 million new jobs created during the 1990s. Certainly, the slow pace of job-creation today is without precedent, but so were the conditions that conspired to slow a booming economy at the beginning of the decade. A stock market bubble burst, and rampant business investment slumped. Then, when the economy was down, terrorist attacks were followed by a spate of scandals that undermined public trust in the way companies were run. These acted as powerful headwinds and, in the face of them, the last recession was remarkably mild. By the same token, the recovery is mild, too. Still, in the next year or so, today’s high productivity growth will start to translate into more jobs. Whether that is in time for Mr. Bush is another matter.
As for outsourcing, it is implausible now, as Lawrence Katz at Harvard University argues, to think that outsourcing has profoundly changer the structure of the American economy over just the past three or four years. After all, outsourcing was in full swing-both in manufacturing and in services-throughout the job-creating 1990s. Government statisticians reckon that outsourced jobs are responsible for well under 1% of those signed up as unemployed. And the jobs lost and created each month at home.
56. It seems that in the eyes of many Americans their unemployment is caused by
A. the economic recession in November 2001
B. the forecasts of George Bush’s economists
C. the flow of job chances into developing countries
D. the rich natural resources in China and India
57. The bill approved last week shows that the Americans.
A. have been carried away with their fear of the gloomy employment prospect
B. will be able to deliver more money than value to the taxpayers
C. decide that they curious about the government’s outsourcing contracts
D. are becoming very curious about the government’s outsourcing contracts
58. According to The Economist, the reason for mass unemployment is
A. the unavoidable economic cycle
B. the poor performance of Bush government
C. the unhealthy structure of the economy
D. the booming economy at the beginning of the decade
59. In the author’s view, the job market will
A. recovers very quickly in the next year or so.
B. further deteriorates in the coming years.
C. sees a mild recovery within the coming decade.
D. remains unchanged within the coming decade.
60. The author seems to believe that outsourcing
A. is the chief reason for the high unemployment rate in the US.
B. is nothing compared with the job loss within the US.
C. is profoundly changing the structure of the American economy.
D. equals the number of jobs created each month in the US.
答 案
41-45 ABDCC 46-50 BCDBA 51-55 ADADB 56-60 CAACB
Directions:
Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)
Passage One
Scholastic thinkers held a wide variety of doctrines in both philosophy and theology, the study of religion. What gives unity to the whole Scholastic movement, the academic practice in Europe form the 9th to the 17th centuries, are the common aims, attitudes, and methods generally accepted by all its members. The chief concern of the Scholastics was not to discover new facts but to integrate the knowledge already acquired separately by Greek reasoning and Christian revelation. This concern is one of the most characteristic differences between Scholasticism and modern thought since the renaissance.
The basic aim of the Scholastics determined certain common attitudes, the most important of which was their conviction of the fundamental harmony between reason and revelation. The Scholastics maintained that because the same God was the source of both types of knowledge and truth was one of his chief attributes, he could not contradict himself in these two ways of speaking. Any apparent opposition between revelation and reason could be traced either to an incorrect use of reason or to an inaccurate interpretation of the words of revelation. Because the Scholastics believed that revelation was the direct teaching of God, it possessed for them a higher degree of truth and certainty than did natural reason. In apparent conflicts between religious faith and philosophic reasoning, faith was thus always the supreme arbiter; the theologians’ decision overruled that of the philosopher. After the early 13th century, Scholastic thought emphasized more the independence of philosophy within its own domain. Nonetheless, throughout the scholastic period, philosophy was called the servant of theology, not only because the truth of philosophy was subordinated to that of theology, but also because the theologian used philosophy to understand and explain revelation.
This attitude of Scholasticism stands in sharp contrast to the so-called double-truth theory of the Spanish-Arab philosopher and physician Averroes. His theory assumer that truth was accessible to both philosophy and Islamic theology but that only philosophy could attain it perfectly. The so-called truths of theology served, hence, as imperfect imaginative expressions for the common people of the authentic truth accessible only to philosophy. Averroes maintained that philosophic truth could even contradict, at least verbally, the teachings of Islamic theology.
As a result of their belief in the harmony between faith and reason, the Scholastics attempted to determine the precise scope and competence of each of these faculties. Many early Scholastics, such as the Italian ecclesiastic and philosopher St. Anselm, did not clearly distinguish the two and were overconfident that reason could prove certain doctrines of revelation. Later, at the height of the mature period of Scholasticism, the Italian theologian and philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas worked out a balance between reason and revelation.
41. With the Scholastics, the search for new knowledge
A. stopped completely B. slowed down.
C. advanced rapidly D. awaked gradually.
42. Which of the following best illustrates the relation between reason and revelation?
A. They are simply identical.
B. Revelation guides reason.
C. They are occasionally contradictory.
D. Reason is used to perfect revelation.
43. It can be inferred from Paragraph 2 that
A. the position of philosophy as a humble servant was accepted.
B. religion had turned into a hamper to the functioning of philosophy.
C. philosophers often sometimes referred to in religious practice.
D. philosophers were sometimes referred to in religious practice.
44. According to the passage, Averroes held that
A. Islamic theology was often subordinate to philosophy.
B. religious truth was nothing but imaginative fantasy.
C. real truth was inaccessible to many common people.
D. imperfect expressions were result of flawed religion.
45. Which of the following is most likely to be discussed in the part succeeding the passage?
A. Relations of St. T. Aquinas’ achievements to previous efforts.
B. How St. T. Aquinas worked out in the balance in discussion.
C. Other endeavors on the relationship of reason and revelation.
D. Outstanding features of the mature period of Scholasticism.
Passage Two
Global energy demand is expected to triple by mid-century. The earth is unlikely to run out of fossil fuels by then, given its vast reserves of coal, but it seems unthinkable that we will continue to use them as we do now. It’s not just a question of supply and price, or even of the disease caused by filthy air. The terrorist assault on the World Trade Center raises other scary scenarios: how much easier would it be to bomb a nuclear plant than to attack a wind arm?
Skeptics may recall the burst of enthusiasm for conservation and renewable power when oil prices quadrupled in the 1970s. State-funded energy research and development surged, while tax incentives boosted solar, wind and other alternatives to petroleum and the atom. But when oil supplies loosened and prices dropped in the early 1990s, governments lost interest. In the state of California, subsidies evaporated, pushing wind companies into bankruptcy.
Clean energy has long way to go. Only 2.2% of the world’s energy comes from “new” renewable such as small hydroelectric dams, wind, solar and geothermal. How to boost that share-and at what pace-is debated in industrialized nations-from Japan, which imports 99.7% of its oil, to Germany, where the nearby Chernobyl accident turned the public against nuclear plants, to the U.S., where the Bush Administration has strong ties to the oil industry. But the momentum toward clean renewable is undeniable. How soon we reach an era of clean, inexhaustible energy depends on technology. Solar and wind energies are intermittent: When the sky is cloudy or the breeze dies down, fossil fuel or nuclear plants must kick into compensate. But scientists are working on better ways to store electricity from renewable sources.
While developed nations debate how to fuel their power plants, however, some 1.6 billion people-a quarter of the globe’s population-have no access to electricity or gasoline. Many spend their days collecting firewood and cow dung, burning it in primitive stoves that belch smoke into their lunge. To emerge from poverty, they need modern energy. And renewable can help. From village-scale hydropower to household photovoltaic systems to bio-gas stoves that convert dung into fuel.
Ultimately, the earth can meet its energy needs without fouling the environment. “But it won’t happen,” asserts Thomas Johansson, an energy adviser to the United Nations Development Program, “without political will.” To begin with, widespread government subsidies for fossil fuels and nuclear energy must be dismantled to level the playing field for renewable. Moreover, government should pressure utility to meet targets for renewable sources of energy.
46. The author’s biggest worry about using unclear energy is that
A. it will do great harm to the inadequate reserves of coal.
B. it is deadly if terrorists attack a nuclear plant.
C. it will limit the development of many other alternatives.
D. there will be a wider gap between developed and developing countries.
47. The renewable energy research lost support from governments in the early 1990s because
A. skeptics were becoming doubtful about the efficiency of renewable.
B. renewable could not meet the increasing energy needs of the society.
C. it was much easier and cheaper to use oil than before.
D. the investment into the field was not worth its value.
48. Which one of the following applies to the use of renewable in developed nations?
A. The more developed a nation is, the higher the proportion of renewable being used.
B. Developed nations are experiencing a fierce energy revolution.
C. Developed nations’ ties with the oil industry are becoming tense.
D. Developed nations haven’t reached a consensus about using more renewable.
49. From the passage, we can conclude that
A. it will be impossible for wind and solar energy to completely replace fossil fuels.
B. high technology plays a vital role in the trend toward clean energy.
C. the development of a nation will inevitably pollute the environment.
D. poor areas are badly polluted and are in high need of renewable energy.
50. The author’s purpose of writing this passage is to
A. urges the governments to take effective measures
B. illustrate the urgent demand of clean energy
C. en courage developed nations to set up an example in the energy revolution.
D. elaborate the difficulties in the use of clean energy
Passage Three
The United States in the 1990s has had seven years of economic boom with low unemployment, low inflation, and low government deficit. Amid all of this good news, inequality has increased and wages have barely risen. Common sense knowledge seems to be right in this instance, that is, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class is shrinking. Though President Clinton boasts that the number of people on welfare has decreased significantly under his regime to 8 million, a 44% decline from 1994, he forgets that there are still 36.5 million poor people in the United States, which is only a 2% decline in the same amount of time. How is it possible that we have increasing inequality during economic prosperity?
This contradiction is not easily explained by the dominant neoclassical economic discourse of our time. Nor is it resolved by neoconservative social policy. More helpful is the one book under review: James K. Galbraith’s Created Unequal, a Keynesian analysis of increasing wage inequality.
James K. Galbraith provides a multicausal analysis that blames the current free market monetary policy for the increasing wage inequality. He calls for a rebellion in economic analysis and policy and for a reapplication of Keynesian macroeconomics to solve the problem. In Created Unequal, Galbraith successfully debunks the conservative contention that wage inequality is necessary because the new skill-based technological innovation requires educated workers who are in short supply. For Galbraith, this is a fantasy. He also critiques their two other assertions: first, that global competition requires an increase in inequality and that the maintenance of inequality is necessary to fight inflation. He points to transfer payments that are mediated by the state: payment to the poor in the form of welfare is minor relative to payment to the elderly in the form of social security or to the rich in the form of interest on public and private debt.
Galbraith minimizes the social indicators of race, gender, and class and tells us that these are not important in understanding wage inequality. What is important is Keynesian macroeconomics. To make this point, he introduces a sect oral analysis of the economy. Here knowledge is dominant (the K-sector) and the producers of consumption goods (the C-sector) are in decline. The third sector is large and low paid (the S-sector). The K-sector controls the new technologies and wields monopoly power. Both wages and profit decline in the other two sectors. As a result of monopoly, power inequality increases.
51. The author accuses President Clinton of
A. being too optimistic about the economic prosperity
B. lying about the economic situation to the pubic
C. increasing the number of people on welfare
D. being reluctant to raise the salary of the average people
52. According to the passage, Galbraith’s book
A. is devoted to analyzing why economic boom usually goes with wage inequality.
B. reviews the dominant neoclassical economic discourse of our time.
C. recommends resolving the present problem by neoconservative social policy.
D. attributes the present increasing wage inequality to several factors.
53. According to the conservative theory, wage inequality is necessary because
A. it is a condition created by the labor market.
B. there is an overall decline in the world’s economy.
C. technological innovation has not produced the desired result.
D. the number of people on welfare has decreased.
54. To which of the following statements would Galbraith agree?
A. The new skill-based technological innovation initiates the present wage inequality.
B. The maintenance of wage inequality is necessary to fighting inflation.
C. Worldwide competition entails an increase in wage inequality.
D. Transfer payment to the rich has made the rich even richer.
55. “Monopoly” (in the last sentence) in the passage refers to
A. the exclusive control of the market forces by the rich.
B. the dominant control of the new technologies by a particular sector
C. the powerful control of the K-sector over the C-and S-sectors
D. the ignorance of the social indicators of race, gender, and class in understanding inequality
Passage Four
Another month, another dismal set of job figures. America pulled out of its last economic recession way back in November 2001, yet the country’s “jobs recession” finished only last autumn, when 2.7 million jobs had been lost since the stare of the showdown. Now, though economic growth has bounced back, new jobs refuse to do the same in this, the third year of recovery. In February, a mere 21,000 jobs were created, according to the official payroll survey, at a time when George Bush’s economists forecast 2.6 million new jobs for 2004 mounting alarm at the White House, and increased calls for protection against what a growing number of Americans see as the root of most ills: the “outsourcing” of jobs to places like China and India. Last week the Senate approved a bill that forbids the outsourcing of government contracts-a curious case of a government guaranteeing not to deliver value-for-money to taxpayers. American anxiety over the economy spears to have tipper over into paranoia and self-delusion.
Too strong? Not really. As The Economist has recently argued-though in the face of many angry readers-the jobs lost are mainly a cyclical affair, not a structural one. They must also be set against the 24 million new jobs created during the 1990s. Certainly, the slow pace of job-creation today is without precedent, but so were the conditions that conspired to slow a booming economy at the beginning of the decade. A stock market bubble burst, and rampant business investment slumped. Then, when the economy was down, terrorist attacks were followed by a spate of scandals that undermined public trust in the way companies were run. These acted as powerful headwinds and, in the face of them, the last recession was remarkably mild. By the same token, the recovery is mild, too. Still, in the next year or so, today’s high productivity growth will start to translate into more jobs. Whether that is in time for Mr. Bush is another matter.
As for outsourcing, it is implausible now, as Lawrence Katz at Harvard University argues, to think that outsourcing has profoundly changer the structure of the American economy over just the past three or four years. After all, outsourcing was in full swing-both in manufacturing and in services-throughout the job-creating 1990s. Government statisticians reckon that outsourced jobs are responsible for well under 1% of those signed up as unemployed. And the jobs lost and created each month at home.
56. It seems that in the eyes of many Americans their unemployment is caused by
A. the economic recession in November 2001
B. the forecasts of George Bush’s economists
C. the flow of job chances into developing countries
D. the rich natural resources in China and India
57. The bill approved last week shows that the Americans.
A. have been carried away with their fear of the gloomy employment prospect
B. will be able to deliver more money than value to the taxpayers
C. decide that they curious about the government’s outsourcing contracts
D. are becoming very curious about the government’s outsourcing contracts
58. According to The Economist, the reason for mass unemployment is
A. the unavoidable economic cycle
B. the poor performance of Bush government
C. the unhealthy structure of the economy
D. the booming economy at the beginning of the decade
59. In the author’s view, the job market will
A. recovers very quickly in the next year or so.
B. further deteriorates in the coming years.
C. sees a mild recovery within the coming decade.
D. remains unchanged within the coming decade.
60. The author seems to believe that outsourcing
A. is the chief reason for the high unemployment rate in the US.
B. is nothing compared with the job loss within the US.
C. is profoundly changing the structure of the American economy.
D. equals the number of jobs created each month in the US.
答 案
41-45 ABDCC 46-50 BCDBA 51-55 ADADB 56-60 CAACB