单选题 Directions: There are 4 passages in this part . Each of the passages is followed by 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer.
They are among the 250,000 people under the age of 25 who are out of work in the Netherlands, a group that accounts for 40 percent of the nation's unemployed. A storm of anger boils up at the government-sponsored (政府资助的) youth center, even among those who are continuing their studies. "We study for jobs that don't exist. " Nicollete Steggerda, 23, said.
After three decades of prosperity, unemployment among 10 member nations of the European Community has exceeded 11 percent, affecting a total of 12.3 million people, and the number is climbing.
The bitter disappointment long expressed by British youths is spreading across the Continent. The title of a rock song " No Future" can now be seen written on the brick walls of closed factories in Belgium and France.
Recent surveys have found that the increasing argument in the last few years over the deployment (布局) in Europe of North Atlantic Treaty Organization missiles and the possibility of nuclear war have clouded European youths' confidence in the future.
One form of protest tends to put the responsibility for a country's economic troubles on the large numbers of "guest workers" from Third World nations, people welcomed in Western Europe in the years of prosperity.
Young Europeans, brought up in an extended period of economic success and general stability, seem to resemble Americans more than they do their own parents. Material enjoyment has given them a sense of expectation, each the right, to a standard of living that they see around them.
"And so we pass the days at the discos, or meet people at the café, and sit and stare. Said Isabella Gcuit. "There is usually not much conversation. You look for happiness. Sometimes you even find it. "

单选题 Unemployment in the Netherlands has affected ______.

A. one million people
B. approximately 12.3 million of people
C. 250,000 people
D. roughly 0.6 million people

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[考点] 细节题 [解析] 参考原文第一句They are among the 250,000 people under the age of 25 who ale out of work in the Netherlands, a group that accounts for 40 percent of the nation's unemployed. 250,000≈D×40%

单选题 What Nicollete Steggerda said (Para. 2) suggests that ______.

A. school education is not sufficient
B. the students' aim in study is not clear
C. the students can't get work after graduation
D. the students lose their motivation in their study

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[考点] 理解题 [解析] 原文是We study for jobs that don't exist，目的很明确，是为了工作，所以B，D皆错；A本文未提及．

单选题 British youths ______.

A. are trying to seek their fortune on the Continent
B. are indifferent to the unemployed on the Continent
C. have been the first to show their disappointment over joblessness
D. are sympathetic to the unemployed in France and Belgium

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[考点] 细节题 [解析] 对应原文The bitter disappointment long expressed by British youths is spreading across the Continent.

单选题 The author states all the items listed except ______.

A. European youths are worried about a new world war in the future
B. widespread unemployment is beyond European youths' expectation
C. the rock song "No Future" is an expression of the disappointment of European youth
D. about 40% of the guest workers are out of work in Western Europe now

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[考点] 细节题 [解析] about 40% of the guest workers are out of work in Western Europe now. 如果第一题做对了，就知道40%不是the guest workers而是the nation's unemployed. 其他三个选项皆可对应原文。

单选题 It seems that young Europeans ______.

A. are more like Americans than their elders in their way of thinking
B. look on life as their elders do
C. look more like Americans than their eiders do
D. expect more from Americans than from their elders

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[考点] 细节题 [解析] 对应原文Young Europeans, brought up in an extended period of economic Success and general stability, seem to resemble Americans more than they do their own parents. Material enjoyment has given them a sense of expectation, each the right, to a standard of living that they see around them.