阅读理解 "We are about to lay off approximately 300 well-qualified people in a broad range of engineering and support disciplines... If you are interested in reviewing the resumes of some of those affected, we invite you to send along a list of your requirements." This is part of a letter recently sent from a Philadelphia-based division of a General Electric (GE) company to 1,200 personnel managers across the United States. The GE division decided to lay off 300 professional and skilled workers because of decreased work contracts from government and private organizations. While GE could have simply laid off the workers, they also decided to help the workers get new jobs. Management developed a very comprehensive program "to help place its workers with other companies, to help them continue in jobs with other divisions of General Electric, or to begin entirely new careers." In addition to the mass mailings of letters to 1,200 nationally based personnel managers, other actions GE took were: 1) The following ad was placed in the New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer: "A message to corporate recruiters seeking people skilled in a different disciplines," the ad headline read. "We invite you to match your company''s personnel needs to technical employees." 2) An employee placement representative was assigned to each "lack-of-work" employee to review his or her goals; help prepare a resume that best re-resented individual goals, talents, and experience; and provide assistance in seeking out and following through on employment opportunities. 3) Telephones were made available to all affected employees, and GE''s rational dial-comm telephone network provided long-distance service. 4) Copies of local and major out-of-town newspapers and other sources of job openings were sup- plied to give the job hunters additional targets for resumes.
单选题 GE''s management made the decision ________.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】事实细节题。根据第二段第二句对解雇工人背景的叙述可知，“由于与政府和私营机构合同数目的减少，通用电气分公司决定辞退300名工人”(The GE division decided to lay off 300 professional and skilled workers because of decreased work contracts from government and private organizations．)所以B是正确答案。
单选题 The following actions were taken by GE''s management to help its out-of-work employees except ________.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】判断题。文章第三段对通用电气公司解决工人再就业而采取措施的叙述中有：向国内各企业人事部发信件、在地区报纸上刊登广告、提供职业信息等，但不包括选项B内容(向受影响职工出售电话)。所以C是正确答案。
单选题 300 employees were dismissed because ________.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】事实细节题。本题可参考前面一题的答案。根据第二段第二句中对该通用电气分公司裁员原因的解释，可知D是正确答案。
单选题 The word "disciplines" in the first sentence of Paragraph 1 means ________.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】词汇题。从该词所在的第一段第一句可知，此处“support disciplines”是工人所从事职业的性质，“disciplines”原义为“纪律，教训”，并有“学科”的含义，结合四个选项内容可推知此处应为support所修饰内容，即支撑性学科。故D是正确答案。
单选题 We can conclude from the first paragraph that ________.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】推断题。文章第一段内容是费城分公司给全国各公司人事部的信件，向它们推荐被辞退的员工，从中我们不难看出：通用电气管理部门为工人的再就业提供了帮助。所以A是正确答案。