单选题China's employment and re-employment situation remains tough with a surge this year in the number of graduates hitting the job market and in unemployment in general, a senior official said. The country's registered average unemployment rate in urban areas reached 4 per cent last year and is expected to go higher this year, Labour and Social Security Minister Zheng Silin told Xinhua yesterday. There are nearly 14 million laid-off workers in urban areas so far. And more than 10 million new graduates are predicted to enter the work force, Zheng said. To make things worse, about 150 million rural workers will head to the cities to seek employment, he said. Zheng, who was appointed as the minister during the first session of the 10th National People's Congress in March, has urged his departments nationwide to do more to assist laid-off workers to restart their lives.

单选题Doctor: What seems to be the matter? Patient: Well, my heartbeat is fast and I have trouble breathing recently. Doctor: ______Your weight is giving much burden on your heart. A. I have to give you some medicine. B. I' m sorry. Your weight is a problem. C. You need some exercises. D. I' m afraid you have to lose at least 40 pounds.

单选题______ quite recently, most mothers in Britain did not take paid work outside the home. A. Until B. Before C. From D. Since

单选题Making energy use completely harmless to the environment ______ very difficult and usually economically expensive. A. is B. are C. have been D. shall be

单选题He never hesitates to make such criticisms ______ are considered helpful to others. A. that B. what C. which D. as

单选题The eldest son ______ all the family members to discuss how to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of their parents. A. clustered B. resembled C. assembled D. rendered

单选题Experts say the space rock is probably ______ more than $ 30,000. A. weighty B. costly C. valuable D. worth

单选题Though the doctors tried everything they couldn't save him from the deep ______ wound. A. shot B. punch C. pinch D. stab

单选题Guest: I'd like a room with an ocean view, please. Clerk: I'm sorry. ______.

单选题The Holiday Cottages are located in ______.

单选题After the Arab states won independence, great emphasis was laid on expanding education, with girls as well as boys ______ to go to school. A. to be encouraged B. been encouraged C. being encouraged D. be encouraged

单选题I left for the office earlier than usual this morning ______ traffic jam. A. at the risk of B. in case of C. for the sake of D. in line with

单选题 Passage 3 Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized training. Ideally, therefore, the choice of an {{U}}(1) {{/U}} should be made even before the choice of a curriculum in high school. Actually, however, most people make several job choices during their working lives,{{U}} (2) {{/U}} because of economic and industrial changes and partly to improve their position. The "one perfect job" does not exist. Young people should {{U}}(3) {{/U}} enter into a broad flexible training program that will fit them for a field of work rather than for a single {{U}}(4) {{/U}}. Unfortunately, etent vocational counselor or psychologist. Knowing {{U}}(5) {{/U}} about the occupational world, or themselves for that matter, they choose their lifework on a hit-or-miss basis. Some drift from job to job. Others {{U}}(6) {{/U}} to work in which they are unhappy and for which they are not fitted. One common mistake is choosing an occupation for its real or imagined prestige. Too many high-school students--or their parents for them--choose the professional field, {{U}}(7) {{/U}} both the relatively small proportion of workers in the professions and the extremely high educational and personal {{U}}(8) {{/U}}. The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a "White-collar" job is no good reason for choosing it as life's work. Moreover, these occupations are not always well paid. Since a large proportion of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the {{U}}(9) {{/U}} of young people should give serious consideration to these fields. Before making an occupational choice, a person should have a general idea of what he wants {{U}}(10) {{/U}} and how hard he is willing to work to get it. Some people desire social prestige, others desire intellectual satisfaction. Some want security; others are willing to take risks for financial gain. Each occupational choice has its demands as well as its rewards.

单选题 What are those of us who have chosen careers in science and engineering able to do about our current problems? First, we can help destroy the false impression that science and engineering have caused the current world trouble. On the contrary, science and engineering have made vast contributions to better living for more people. Second, we can identify the many areas in which science and technology, more considerably used, can be of great service in the future than in the past to improve the quality of life. While we can make many speeches, and pass many laws, the quality of our environment will be improved only through better knowledge and better application of that knowledge. Third, we can recognize that much of the dissatisfaction we suffer today results from our very successes of former years. We have been so greatly successful in attaining material goals that we are deeply dissatisfied that we cannot attain other goals more rapidly. We have achieved a better life for most people, but we are unhappy that we have not spread it to all people. We have reduced many sources of environmental disasters, but we are unhappy that we have not conquered of them. It is our raised expectations rather than our failures which now cause our distress. Granted that many of our current problems must be cured more by social, political, and economic instruments than science and technology, yet science and technology must still be the tools to make further advances in such things as clean air, clean water, better transportation, better medical care, more adequate welfare programs, purer food, conservation resources, and many other areas.

单选题Bob believes that the invasion of the marketplace into the university is undermining fundamental academic values, and that we must act now to ______ this decline.

单选题She was too nervous to act ______ on such an occasion.

单选题It's no use ______ me not to worry. A. you tell B. your telling C. for you to have told D. having told

单选题Private enterprise is the thing. We went to a party on the river earlier this summer. The host (31) is old enough to know better, served a lunch made with his home-made wine. As I was driving, I was (32) to decline, but my wife politely took a glass and subsequently fell upstairs. The wound (33) weekly dressing by the district nurse, a talkative soul who enjoyed the social (34) of her work. She stayed for most of the afternoon, admiring things and gossiping about village life. At about the (35) time I called in the regional crime officer, to advise me on how to make the house reasonably secure against the child criminals who commit most of the (36) in these parts. He, (37) , was a companionable soul and made an afternoon of it. And why is it that when I write to a public utility (38) as the gas board. I get a printed card to tell they received my letter and will shortly act on it? The money spent on printing, typing, filling in and stamping these cards (39) add up to a very large sum indeed, when spread over all these industries. No commercial house sends such acknowledgements. Money. (40) it reaches a public service, loses the value that was stamped on it by the trouble to get it.

单选题{{B}}Passage Four{{/B}} In 10 years, the mutual-fund industry won't even be called that. The term "mutual fund" will be much too confining to encompass(包括) the various types of mixed investment vehicles(手) that will be available to investors around the world. Technology, especially the Internet, will be the most significant driver, affecting every aspect of the mutual-fund industry, from products and delivery to providers and customers. The future version of today's mutual funds will be available for purchase across the globe by citizens of many nationalities in just about any currency. The average investor will be able to trade bonds as well as stocks with ease 24-hours a day, 365 days a year by using voice-held, satellitelinked PCs. A Brazilian citizen, for example, will be able to buy shares of the Vanguard 500 Index Fund in London at midnight, using its price in New York at 02:00 Greenwich Time, to be settled in Japanese yen. With the vast amount of information and instantaneous (瞬间) service available to investors through the Internet, the merits of an investment product will drive its consumption. Investment products in the next decade will come in finer shades of investment objectives. Demand for investment products will be huge around the world. In the United States, there has been considerable discussion of the impact that maturing baby boomers will have on financial markets and levels of investment. The subsequent Generation X and Internet Generation groups are very likely to pick up any slack (呆滞,萧条) due to disinvestment by boomers, and on their own, elevate investment to a new level by 2008. Generation X'ers(新生的一代人) appear to be more highly motivated to invest than the boomers, while the Net Generation' s comfort level with technology will stimulate investment as well.

单选题A: You seem to have a lot of work to do in your office. You've always been working over-time. B.______ A. You are right, but don't you know the meaning of work? B. Sorry. I don't think so. I get overpaid for overwork,you know. C. That's right. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. D. That's right, but the work is interesting. I don't mind some extra hours at all.