阅读理解
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn’t good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero. That’s bad for the economy, of course. And it may be especially discouraging if you happen to be looking for a job or hoping to change careers right now. But it actually shouldn’t matter to you nearly as much as you think.
That’s because job growth numbers don’t matter to job hunters as much as job turnover （人员更替） data. After all, existing jobs open up every day due to promotions, resignations, terminations（解雇）, and retirements. (Yes, people are retiring even in this economy.) In both good times and bad, turnover creates more openings than economic growth does. Even in June of 2007, when the economy was still moving ahead, job growth was only 132,000, while turnover was 4.7 million!
And as it turns out, even today — with job growth near zero — over 4 million job hunters are being hired every month.
I don’t mean to imply that overall job growth doesn’t have an impact on one’s ability to land a job. It’s true that if total employment were higher, it would mean more jobs for all of us to choose from (and compete for). And it’s true that there are currently more people applying for each available job opening, regardless of whether it’s a new one or not.
But what often distinguishes those who land jobs from those who don’t is their ability to stay motivated. They’re willing to do the hard work of identifying their valuable skills; be creative about where and how to look; learn how to present themselves to potential employers; and keep going, even after repeated rejections. The Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that 2.7 million people who wanted and were available for work hadn’t looked within the last four weeks and were no longer even classified as unemployed.
So don’t let the headlines fool you into giving up. Four million people get hired every month in the U.S. You can be one of them.
单选题
The author tends to believe that high unemployment rate ______.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[定位] 根据题干中的high unemployment rate定位至第1段。
[解析] 本题询问作者对高失业率的看法。第1段开头说最新的就业形势并不好；倒数第2句提到，如果刚好在找工作(be looking for a job)，形势可能会特别令人沮丧；最后一句用But转折说明影响其实并没有想象中那么大(actually shouldn't matter)。C使用了与末句相同的表达(should not)，意为高失业率“不应阻碍人们找工作”，与原文相符。
[点睛] 高失业率本身描述的就是“很多人没有工作”，而并非造成“让很多人失去工作机会”(A项)的原因，因此排除；B“阻止了很多人换工作”中的changing careers在第1段倒数第2句提到，原文用if条件句假设，说如果要换工作的话，形势可能会令人特别沮丧，实际作者要说明的观点在But之后，即就业形势的影响不大；D“并不意味着美国经济在变差”与第2句中的bad for the economy意思相反。