单选题

The Present Recession Affects Women More Than Men

If men were the first to lose their jobs in the heart of the economic crisis in the United States, a study now shows a trend, women, (21) mothers today, are suffering the collateral effects, while the American economy is back on the road to growth.
According to a report by the Joint Economic Committee of American Congress, American men were the most affected at the beginning of the crisis as over- (22) in most key sectors such as building and industry. Today, they are finding jobs, unlike women and especially single mothers. Between October 2009 and March 2010, women have lost 22,000 jobs while men have found 260,000 jobs, a (23) by that Committee. According to the chairwoman of this Committee, Democrat Carolyn Maloney, the conclusions of the survey show that single women were particularly affected, with an (24) rate that (25) from 8 percent to 13.6 percent between the year 2007 to 2009.
(26) one third of jobs destroyed during the current recession were (27) by women, said Ms. Maloney. For example, it was discovered that during (28) recessions, this percentage was lower: Women have been affected by 15 percent of job losses during the recession of 2001. While women are losing more jobs, their families are more (29) on women incomes, said Carolyn Maloney.
In 2009, 3.3 million women worked part time for (30) reasons, the report said. Either because they had not found a full-time employment or their working hours had been reduced to part time.
So let's all hope that this trend will change soon and that the economy gets better soon in America for women as well as for men.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[答案精解] 词义辨析题。A项意为“否则”；B项意为“尤其，特别是”；C项意为“像”；D项意为“尤其”。根据该句表达的意思，应该选D项。因为这里强调把mothers作为women中的一个很独特、很特别的特殊群体来进行描述。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[答案精解] 综合辨析题。首先确定各个选项单词的含义。A项意为“失业，失业人数”；B项意为“工作，职业，雇用，使用”；C项意为“失业的，闲着的”；D项意为“受雇佣的，被使用的”。这里需要了解的知识是：unemployed或employed表示“失业的”或“被雇用的”修饰名词时只能置于表示人的名字之前，故排除C和D项。另外，an/the unemployment rate表示“失业率”，an/the employment rate意为“就业率”，这两个均为固定表达，而根据该句要表达的意思，正确答案应为A项。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[答案精解] 词义辨析题。A项可分解为“rise(升高，举起)+d”的形式，不是单词，也不是rise的过去式(此时应为rose)；B项为a rouse(引起)的过去式；C项为rise(升高，提高)的过去式；D项为Climb(爬，攀)的过去。此处为数字的增长，而根据表示数字的增长一般会使用rise或go up等，而不会使用arouse，climb的规则，故此处只能选择C项rose。

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[答案精解] 词义辨析题。根据句中出现的位置，可以判断，这里需要一个副词或连词。A项意为“最后，终于”；B项意为“然而，还，仍，已经”；C项意为“到处，自始至终”；D项意为“总的来说”。根据整句在文中出现的位置，判断应选D项，该词在文中起到连接上下文并总结的作用。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[答案精解] 词义辨析加综合判断题。首先判断这里缺谓语动词。A项意为“占领，占据”；B项意为“被持有，被占有”；C项意为“被占领，被占据”；D项判断为动词occupy过去式的错误拼写。根据整句话的意思判断C项为正确选项。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[答案精解] 词义辨析题。A项意为“以前的，先前的”；B项意为“上一次的”；C项为pass(经过)的过去式或过去分词；D项意为“过去的”。根据整句话的意思，首先可以排除B和C项。past做“过去的”含义讲时，一般用于搭配或修饰“experience”等词，故A项为最终选项。previous recessions在这里表示“先前的几次经济衰退”。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[答案精解] 综合考查题。根据上下文的意思，这里“be+缺失词+on”表达“依赖，依靠”的含义。而这个概念或含义一般不用于进行时，故排除A项和B项。再将C项和D项进行词义辨析。C项构成的be dependent on表示“依靠，依赖”的含义，而D项reliable则经常单独使用，常用于修饰人，表示“可靠的，可信赖的”，后不常带介词on。故C项为正确答案。