单选题 Now listen to the following recording and answer questions23-25.

单选题 Obesity generally is defined as an accumulation of fat beyond what is considered normal for a person's age, sex, and body type. In today's society obesity is considered a disease, not a moral failing. It occurs when energy intake exceeds the amount of energy expended over time. Only in a small minority of cases is obesity caused by such illnesses as hypothyroidism, or the result of taking medications, such as steroids (类固醇), that can cause weight gain. The more a person weighs, the more blood vessels the body needs to circulate blood throughout the body. The heart takes on a heavy burden as it has to pump harder to force the blood flow through so many vessels. As a result, the heart grows in size and blood pressure tends to rise. Obesity is also a factor in osteoarthritis (because of the extra weight placed on the joints), bone and joint diseases, respiratory ailments, gallbladder disease, complications during pregnancy and delivery, and higher accidental death rate. Obesity can alter hormone levels, affect immune function, and cause impotence in men and reproductive problems in women. Women who are 30% overweight are twice as likely to die of endometrial cancer, and those who are 40% overweight have four times the risk. Obese women also are more likely to incur cancers of the breast, ovaries, and gallbladder. Obese men are more likely to develop cancers of the rectum, colon, bladder, pancreas, stomach, and prostate. Obesity can also cause psychological problems. Sufferers are associated with laziness, failure, or inadequate willpower. As a result, overweight men and women blame themselves for being heavy, thus causing feelings of guilt and depression. Scientific evidence has found an association between BMI (body-mass index) and higher death rates. However, the relative risk of being heavy declines with age. Some researchers have found that data linking overweight and death are inconclusive, while other researchers have found that losing weight may be riskier than dangers posed by extra pounds. Some researchers counter that overweight indirectly contributes to over 300,000 deaths a year. A poll by Shape Up America found that 78% of overweight or obese adults have abandoned dieting as a means of losing weight. Diets do not teach people how to eat properly. They merely restrict food intake temporarily, so when the diet ends, weight gain resumes.

单选题 I am one of the many city people who are always saying that given the choice we should prefer to live in the country away from the dirt and noise of a large city. I have managed to convince myself that if it weren't for my job I would immediately head out for the open spaces and go back to nature in some sleepy village buried in the country. But how realistic is the dream? Cities can be frightening places. The majority of the population live in massive tower blocks, noisy, dirty and impersonal. The sense of belonging to a community tends to disappear when you live fifteen floors up. All you can see from your windows is sky, or other blocks of flats. Children become aggressive and nervous—cooped up at home all day, with nowhere to play; their mothers feel isolated from the rest of the world. Strangely enough, whereas in the past the inhabitants of one street all knew each other, nowadays people on the same floor in tower blocks don't even say hello to each other. Country life, on the other hand, differs from this kind of isolated existence in that a sense of community generally binds the inhabitants of small villages together. People have the advantage of knowing that there is always someone to turn to when they need help. But country life has disadvantages too. While it is true that you may be among friends in a village, it is also true that you are from the exciting and important events that take place in cities. There's little possibility of going to a new show or the latest movie. Shopping becomes a major problem, and for anything slightly out of the ordinary you have to go on an expedition to the nearest large town. The city-dweller who leaves for the country is often oppressed by a sense of unbearable stillness and quiet. What, then, is the answer? The country has the advantage of peace and quiet, but suffers from the disadvantage of being cut off; the city breeds a feeling of isolation, and constant noise batters the senses. But one of its main advantages is that you are at the centre of things; and that life doesn't come to an end at half past nine at night. Some people have found (or rather bought) a compromise between the two: they have expressed their preference for the 'quiet life' by leaving the suburbs and moving to villages within commuting distance of large cities. They generally have about as much sensitivity as the plastic flowers they leave behind—they are polluted with strange ideas about change and improvement which they force on to the unwilling original inhabitants of the villages.

单选题 How to Cope with Your Soul-destroying Jobs A. We all have heard—or at least seen in the movies—great stories about people who are working in soul-destroying jobs, then quit in some spectacular fashion and move on to fabulous second careers. This isn't a column about that. Rather, more realistically, it's about what to do if you're in a job you dislike—or actively hate—but can't move on. Maybe you need to pay the rent or the mortgage and you've sent out endless resumes and haven't gotten a bite. Whatever the reason, you're stuck. Are there ways to make going into work every day more palatable? B. Dawn Rosenberg McKay, who writes the career planning guide on About.com (which is owned by The New York Times), suggests first making a list of all the things you dislike about your job. Try to do it when you have a little distance, like during a vacation or on a weekend. Don't cheat and write, 'Everything.' It may feel that way, but that's not helpful. C. 'If you hate your boss, write down the things you hate about her,' Ms. Rosenberg said. Do you like what you do, but dislike your colleagues or boss, or do you despise the actual tasks? Try to separate it out. Then write down all the things you like about your job, and again, 'nothing' is not a satisfactory answer. 'Try to find something positive, even if it's just the neighbourhood you work in or the view from your window,' she said. D. If you want to switch careers, not just get out of that particular job, Cathy Goodwin, a career consultant who specializes in career transitions, suggested focusing on 'developing skills rather than serving time.' What can you learn that you can put on your resume? Computer skills? Public speaking? 'If your company offers education benefits, use them to make yourself marketable,' she said. Even if your company will pay only $1,000, you can take a class at a community college. E. Roy L. Cohen, author of The Wall Street Professional's Survival Guide (Financial Times Press, 2010), said 'a bad job may be a necessary placeholder while you take classes or network for a new and more satisfying job.' And yes, I can hear the groans out there. I know people who have been networking and applying for jobs for a year or more in the hope of moving on. No one said it would be easy in these tough economic times, or quick. F. If you're stuck, are there particular tasks in your job that you like? Has your job changed so that you're now doing a lot of things you find mind-numbing or off your career path? Is there any way to talk to your boss about this? But before you approach your manager, 'consider whether how you are being treated is unique to you or shared by your colleagues,' Mr. Cohen said. As firms downsize, many employees are being forced to take on lots of extra work. If everyone is in the same boat, you may just have to accept it. If you feel, however, that you are unfairly singled out, or if you are truly overwhelmed, think whether there is a way you can talk to your supervisor, Ms. Rosenberg said. G. One trouble in many jobs is that workers feel underappreciated or completely unappreciated, Mr. Cohen said. There are some companies where 'your boss sees you and your colleagues only as a resource to be used and exploited,' he added. 'Don't expect or look for appreciation to be expressed or for your good work to be acknowledged. In this situation, 'employee appreciation' is an oxymoron.' H. So what can you do? Look outside your job for positive feedback. Can your family and friends supply it? Perhaps volunteering or joining a professional organization can give you some sense of purpose if you can't get it from your workplace, he said. I. When I was in a job and my supervisors insisted—unfairly, I believed—that I wasn't producing enough, I found it helpful to document exactly what I was doing. This proved not only important in negotiations with the higher-ups, but also helped re-establish my own sense of worth. J. A. J. Russo, a pharmacy technician in Pennsylvania, said she tried to manage her problems with her colleagues by putting the situation in some perspective. 'I try to remind myself that it's not my co-workers or boss,' she said. 'We're all stressed. There are three of us doing 300 prescriptions a day. I try not to take it personally.' With car payments and student loans, she said, 'I would rather be employed than unemployed.' She said she was determined to stay in her current one until a new job came along. Ms. Russo said she had complained a lot to her friends outside work, which might help deal with the pain. But, Ms. Rosenberg, the career columnist, cautioned against grousing too much to your colleagues at work. K. 'They say misery loves company, but you don't want set a tone in the office,' Ms. Rosenberg said. For one thing, it can get back to the powers that be. And while a little complaining can feel good, too much tends to just compound the negativity. Be aware of further self-sabotage, Ms. Goodwin said. Sloppy performance, talking back to co-workers or managers or showing up late—that's what people do when they are unhappy at work. And it can get you fired. You may find out how much you liked, or at least needed, that job once you're forced out. There are times, of course, when you have to leave your job before you have another lined up, especially if it's making you physically or emotionally ill, Ms. Rosenberg said. L. A friend of mine, who asked not be named because he was still looking for a job, quit his a year ago after three and a half months. 'It was a constant source of stress,' he said. 'I was always in a bad mood, even on weekends.' A professional with many working years under his belt, my friend said he knew there were problems just a few weeks into the new job, but he was determined to stick it out. 'But when I went to London for a meeting, I had to double my blood-pressure medication and take a blood-pressure monitor,' he said. 'That's a sign that something's wrong.' M. He acknowledged that he thought he would find another job more quickly than was the case. In the last year, he has done consulting work and even, at times, driven a limousine. But he never regrets leaving. 'The uncertainty is uncomfortable, but it's better than the certainty of that job,' he said. N. If you're wondering about quitting your job, Ms. Rosenberg provides a useful quiz to help with the decision on her Web site. And while it's not easy in our culture, where we tend to 'live to work rather than work to live,' as the saying goes, everyone I spoke to agreed we could try to change that perspective. Do you have to work 60 hours a week, or can you shorten your work hours and take a dance or memoir-writing class? Or go to a play? O. And beware of idealizing other jobs. It may well be that another position will suit you better. But remember, just because you're unhappy in your current job doesn't mean the next one will be perfect.

单选题 The Alzheimer's Association and the National Alliance for Caregiving estimate that men make up nearly 40 percent of family care providers now, up from 19 percent in a study conducted by the Alzheimer's Association a decade ago. About 17 million men are caring for an adult. Women still provide the bulk of family care, especially intimate tasks like bathing and dressing. Many complain that their brothers are treated like heroes just for showing up. But with smaller families and more women working full-time, many men have no choice but to take on roles that would have been alien to their fathers. Often they are overshadowed by their female counterparts and faced with employers, friends, support organizations and even parents who view caregiving as an essentially female role. Male caregivers are more likely to say they feel unprepared for the role and become socially isolated, and less likely to ask for help. 'Isolation affects women as well, but men tend to have fewer lifeline. They are less likely to have friends going through similar experiences, and depend more on their jobs for daily human contact.' Dr. Donna Wagner, the director of gerontology (老年学) at Towson University and one of the few researchers who has studied sons as caregivers, said. In past generations, men might have pointed to their accomplishments as breadwinners or fathers. Now, some men say they worry about the conflict between caring for their parents and these other roles. In a study at three Fortune 500 companies, Dr. Donna Wagner found that men were less likely to use employee-assistance programs for caregivers because they feared it would be held against them. 'Even though the company has endorsed the program, your supervisors may have a different opinion.' Dr. Wagner said. Matt Kassin, 51, worked for a large company with very generous benefits, and his employer had been understanding. But he was reluctant to talk about his caregiving because he thought 'when they hire a male, they expect him to be 100 percent focused.' And he didn't want to appear to be someone who had distractions that detracted (破坏) from performance. For many men, the new role means giving up their self-image as experts, said Louis Colbert, director of the office of services for the aging in Delaware County, Pa., who has shared care of his 84-year-old mother with his siblings since her Alzheimer's made it necessary. Once a year, Mr. Colbert organizes a get-together for male caregivers. The concerns they raise, he said, are different from those of women in support groups. 'Very clearly, they said they wanted their roles as caregivers validated, because in our society, as a whole, men as caregivers have been invisible,' he said.

单选题 No Reservations? This Restaurant Trend Has Become Harder to Swallow. A. If you think the great equalizer in rank-conscious Washington is the Department of Motor Vehicles or a summons to appear for jury duty, you haven't been out to eat lately. Thanks to greed for fashionable food served in appetizer-size restaurants—and an abundance of millennial patience—the leveling agent for secretaries and Secretary of State alike boils down to this: More of us are waiting in line for dinner because restaurants aren't taking reservations. B. Eager to explore the Thai fireworks at Little Serow in Dupont Circle at prime time? Prepare to wait up to three hours on weekends for one of fewer than 30 seats. Meanwhile, ramen (拉面) lovers know it's easier to access Toki Underground on H Street NE on weekdays, when the wait might be a mere hour, versus the weekend, when the drill can take three times as long. C. The latest game-changer, Compass Rose off booming 14th Street NW, is a cozy source for international street food that offers snacks from Brazil, India and Spain—a little bit of everything, it seems, except for confirmed bookings. D. Restaurateurs say they don't take reservations because they want to avoid no-shows and latecomers, which eat into their bottom line, but also because they know they can pack in more diners. Indeed, the policy, which clearly favors host over guest, is creating tension and buzz; as different as the eateries (小饭馆) mentioned before are, they all play to full houses. It also illustrates an economy that has rebounded. In lean times, a business wouldn't dare make it difficult for you to use them. E. The reality that so many worthy young restaurants are forgoing (放弃) reservations is evidence of a culture that gets as excited to see a star chef as the FLOTUS, and of a city that's living to eat rather than eating to live. Food warriors now brag about scoring the dishes at Little Serow the way they used to boast about keeping a wine locker at Capital Grille. F. The shift is surprising for a city where power brokers like to be recognized and, better yet, to show off their standing. Maybe that's what sets Washington apart from other markets: a high degree of self-importance. No other major food city makes some of its most coveted seats so hard to secure. Challenging as they are to access, even white-hot Momofuku Noodle Bar in New York and Flour + Water in San Francisco offer some reservations. G. The allure of the near-unattainable has been good for other than the sexy restaurants in question; beneficiaries of the no-reservations policy include the hot spots' neighbors, where aspiring diners go to drink or snack while they wait, fingers crossed, to get a text or call informing them their table is ready. Jamie Leeds, the owner of two Hank's Oyster Bars near Little Serow and Rose's Luxury, picks up an extra dozen or so customers a night at her seafood eateries. The daily average might be small, she says, but over the course of the year, the numbers add up and the exposure is impressive. 'Customers come back on their own.' H. On the surface, not saving tables sounds egalitarian (平等主义的). Whoever shows up first has a shot at getting in, regardless of power or contacts. Anyone who has ever tried and failed to score seats at such extreme reservations as Minibar by José Andrés in Washington or the French Laundry from Thomas Keller in Napa Valley can appreciate the idea of more or less dining by lottery. I. But hospitality takes a holiday at establishments that don't book. In effect, these restaurants are saying, 'It's more important for us to fill every seat than to treat diners like guests.' Think about it. Who invites people to dinner and then makes them wait until the cook is good and ready to let you in, much less eat? By not guaranteeing tables, restaurants dismiss whole groups of would-be patrons. The masses include senior citizens who might not be able to stand for long or don't go out after dark, parents who may be reluctant to shell out $20 an hour for child care for a meal that may or may not happen, and suburban residents reluctant to drive in for the chance to be turned away. I smell ageism (对老年人的歧视). Sure enough, a scan of the dining rooms that don't book tables could be a casting call for a J.Crew catalogue. J. About that defense from restaurants, that the no-reservations policy helps them avoid no-shows? The hospitality industry would be wise to adopt the practice of doctors, dentists and fitness trainers, who charge customers who fail to show for an appointment. A fair penalty? The check average, per person, for every guest who fails to honor a commitment—Yelp blow-back be damned. Some restaurants publicly shame no-shows: Red Medicine in Los Angeles and Noma in Copenhagen have both posted the names of AWOL customers online. K. Affluent and over-educated Washingtonians are not used to being told no. It's one thing for Open Table to let you know, late at night in the comfort of your pajamas, you can't eat someplace on the day and time selected, quite another to be told 'no' in person at a host stand with dates, clients—anyone you want to impress—in tow. Such restaurant rejection is yet another reminder of disruption culture; the old rules and old access don't apply in 2014. L. Some argue that just because you like to eat doesn't give you entree anywhere. As a fashion designer with democratic impulses told me, 'You can't get XXL in Comme des Garcons.' Some experiences, in other words, will always be out of reach. M. If it hasn't happened yet, it will soon: Someone with more money than time is going to enlist the help of an assistant or receptionist to stand in line as a human place-holder for the bragging rights of a seat in a restaurant the public is dying to try. N. Fair or not—I vote not—that kind of behavior goes against the spirit of dining out, at least for me. A sense of friendship forms when you huddle with people on a joint mission, even one as transient as dinner, and for some participants, the excitement of landing a hot table ('Yes! We made it!') is right up there with successful deep-sea dives and climbs of Everest. O. Again, the restaurant wins, too. Which diner, having endured the difficulties of getting a reservation at Noma, perhaps the toughest ticket on the planet right now, is going to say the food was just okay? P. What goes around comes around. When Erik Bruner-Yang, the chef of the no-reservations Toki Underground, visited a like-minded peer, his verbal review of the production began: 'I waited two hours for Rose's.'

单选题 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter. Suppose you are Wang Li. Write a letter to Jin Bian Attorney-at-law to apply for a position of legal secretary. You should write at least 120 words according to the outline given below. 1.申请法律秘书职务。 2.说明自己的专业。 3.请求面谈。

单选题 The Rise of the Sheeconomy A. Different experiences (1) In the hierarchy of activities that people despise, getting a car repaired is in pole position, sort of the auto equivalent of having a tooth pulled, except you bleed money and don't get a smiley sticker as you leave. Garry Rosenfeldt, marketing research director for Midas International, knew this. After their cars were fixed, only 1 in 4 Midas customers returned to buy other services. Even dentists see their customers more often than that. B. Different experiences (2) To ascertain what might make it more pleasant—or at least less odious—for customers, Rosenfeldt set up an experiment in late 2008 in which customers were recorded before and after they brought their cars in for repairs. He found that while auto shops inspired fear and loathing in men and women alike, the two sexes had different ideas about how to improve the experience. C. Different experiences (3) Since Midas is in the testosterone—a world of engine blocks and overhead cam shafts, it needed to aim for what the men wanted, right? Nuh-uh: 'From a financial point of view, I'd rather have a woman in the shop than a mail,' says Rosenfeldt. They're better customers, he believes, more loyal and evangelistic. 'They talk about looking for 'their guy'.' he says. And once they find him and trust him, he adds, 'they spend more.' D. Different experiences (4) Over at Best Buy, Julie Gilbert, a senior vice president whose job was to figure out high-end male consumers, had already come to the same conclusion. She liked to do her research in living rooms, so she got herself invited to a couple of rich guys' homes to figure out why they'd buy widgets and peripherals at Best Buy but not pricey home theaters. E. Different experiences (5) Almost from the first home she visited, she realized she was talking to the wrong person. 'The women took over the conversation,' Gilbert says, 'They had incredible passion and intensity about the store experience, and for every issue they also had a solution.' What these two and' many other businesses discovered is the Sheconomy. F. Sheeconomy (1) Everyone knows, or has long suspected, that the purse strings are held by women. It's often repeated that they make 85% of the buying decisions or are the chief purchasing officers of their households. G. Sheeconomy (2) The difference today—one that has enormous consequences across global econo mics—is that women are also the earners. In October 2009, the U. S. workforce became nearly half female: women held 49.9% of all nonfarm labor jobs and 51.5% of high paying management and professional positions, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This is not likely to be a blip. For every two guys who graduate from college or get a higher degree, three women do. This is almost the exact opposite of the graduation ratio that existed when the baby boomers entered college. H. Sheeconomy (3) And as the U.S. continues its migration from a manufacturing economy to a know ledge—based one, women are poised to snag more jobs. They make up the majority of the workforce in 9 of the 10 occupations and BLS predicts that they will add the most jobs in the next eight years. While it's true that most women still earn less than men, are far less likely to be in the highest-salaried executive positions and suffer a prohibitive motherhood penalty, about a third of women outearn: their husbands. I. Sheeconomy (4) And according to James Chung of research firm Reach Advisors, who spent more than a year analyzing data from the Census Bureau's 2008 American Community Survey, among one specific segment—childless city dwelling single people in their 20s—the average pay gap favors females: in metropolitan areas, their median full-time income is 108% that of their male counterparts. In some places, says Chung, 'they've not just caught up—they're clocking the guys.' In Atlanta, women are at 121% of men's pay; in New York City, 117%. These gains, mostly the product of education, may dissipate as these women have kids. Nevertheless, better pay for more women changes many things—including, most fundamentally, how much money they have. Evidence of this shift is visible all around the world. J. Sheeconomy (5) A recent Booz Co. report called women 'the Third Billion', meaning that, globally, they are the next emerging economy. Much of this is a result of women's growing economic power in developing countries, but even in the U. S. , women hold sway over 51.3% of the nation's private wealth. K. Sheeeonomy (6) As Maddy Dychtwald observes in Influence, one of many books on the subject of female economic empowerment to come out in the past 12 months. 'We're on the brink of a massive power shift, a grinding of the gears of history into a new human condition,' she writes. 'It's a world where women can, if they choose, seize the reins of economic control.' L. Changes at home (1) As these things often do, the changes start at home. A recent Pew study of 30-to-44-year-olds showed that when a husband is the primary or sole breadwinner, household spending decisions are divided roughly equally. He makes about a third of them, she makes a third, and they make a third jointly. M. Changes at home (2) But in the 22% of households studied in which the wife earned more, she made more than twice as many decisions as her husband about where the money would go. The more money women earn, the exponentially more money they manage. N. Changes at home (3) And women are increasingly making the calls where men have traditionally held sway. In 2007, women were $90 billion worth of the $200 billion consumer-electronics business. They're $105 billion of the $256 billion home-improvement market. They're 44% of NFL fans. Given this power shift, few indeed are the industries that aren't trying to lure the female dollar, even formerly deeply stubbled fields like computers, cars and financial services. O. Changes at home (4) Harley Davidson has a Women Riders section on its website. This year. Cuban cigar manufacturer Habanos launched the Julieta, a smaller, milder cigar aimed specifically at women. Kodak, in a stroke of nomenclature genius, has a chief listening officer on staff.

单选题According to a paper to be published in Psychological Science this has an interesting psychological effect. A group of researchers, led by Eugene Caruso of the University of Chicago, found that people judge the distance of events 24 , depending on whether they are in the past or future. The paper calls this the 'Temporal Doppler Effect'. In physics, the Doppler effect describes the way that waves change frequency depending on whether their 25 is traveling towards or away from you. Mr. Caruso argues that something similar happens with people's perception of time. Because future events are associated with diminishing distance, while those in the past are thought of as 26 , something happening in one month feels psychologically 27 than something that happened a month ago. This idea was tested in a series of experiments. In one, researchers asked 323 28 and divided them into two groups. A week before Valentine's day, members of the first were asked how they planned to celebrate it. A week after February 14th the second group reported how they had celebrated it. Both groups also had to describe how near the day felt on a 29 of one to seven. Those describing forthcoming plans were more likely to report it as feeling 'a short time from now', while those who had already 30 it tended to cluster at the 'a long time from now' end of the scale. To account for the risk that recalling actual events requires different cognitive functions than imagining ones that have not yet happened, they also asked participants to 31 the distance of hypothetical events a month in the past or future. The asymmetry (不对称) remained. Mr. Caruso speculates that his research has 32 for psychological well-being. He suspects that people who do not show this bias—those who feel the past as being closer—might be more 33 to rumination (沉思) or depression, because they are more likely to dwell on past events. A. advancing B. apparently C. available D. closer E. differently F. evaluate G. experienced H. implications I. prospect J. rate K. receding L. scale M. source N. subject O. volunteers

单选题 The last few weeks have brought an unusual convergence of voices from both the centre and the left about a topic that is typically part of conservative rhetorical territory: poverty and single-parent families. Just as some conservatives have started talking seriously about rising inequality and stagnant incomes, some liberals have finally begun to admit that our stubbornly (难以对付地) high rates of poverty and social and economic immobility are closely entwined with the rise of single motherhood. But that's where agreement ends. Consistent with its belief in self-sufficiency, the right wants to see more married-couple families. For the left, widespread single motherhood is a fact of modern life that has to be met with vigorously expanded government support. Liberals point out, correctly, that poverty rates for single-parent households are lower in most other advanced economies, where the welfare state is more generous. That argument ignores a troubling truth: Single-parent families are not the same in the United States as elsewhere. Simply put, unmarried parents here are more likely to enter into parenthood in ways guaranteed to create turmoil in their children's lives. The typical American single mother is younger than her counterpart in other developed nations. She is also more likely to live in a community where single motherhood is the norm rather than an alternative life choice. All of this would be of merely passing interest if it weren't for the evidence that this kind of domestic churn is really bad news for kids. The more 'transitions' experienced by a child—the arrival of a stepparent, a parental boyfriend or girlfriend, or a step- or half sibling (兄弟，姊妹)—the more children are likely to have either emotional or academic problems, or both. Part of the problem is that a nonresident father tends to fade out of his children's lives if there's a new man in his ex's house or if he has children with a new partner. For logistical, emotional and financial reasons, his loyalty to his previous children slackens (变弱) once he has a child with a new girlfriend or wife. Nor is it likely, from the overlooked child's point of view, that a mother's new boyfriend or husband can fill the gap. There's substantial research showing that stepfathers are sometimes worse than none at all.

单选题At the height of Detroit's boom in the mid 20th century, this plant manufactured Packard automobiles, employing about 40,000 people. The promise of good pay and plenty of work at similar 27 around the city attracted people like Tennessee native George McGregor in the 1960s. Today, he's president of the United Auto Workers Local 22 in Detroit. 'When I first came here, in the automobile factory, they were begging people to come. The hour 28 was something like $3.25 an hour,' he recalled. But the auto industry stopped begging when 29 for American cars slowed and interest in foreign automobiles increased. The Packard brand became 30 , and the hum of its once mighty factory is silent. Crumbling buildings are part of one of the largest vacant industrial complexes in the world. They 31 Detroit's boom-to-bust story. 'There were about a dozen auto factories, and you know very large 32 , and over time those have been shut down to now there's only one left,' Scorsone said. Economist Eric Scorsone, at Michigan State University, said although General Motors 33 the most prominent set of buildings in downtown Detroit, the auto industry plays a much smaller role in the city's economy. 'In fact, health care is the biggest employer now in the city,' he said. There were about 300,000 auto factory jobs in Detroit in the 1950s, when the 34 was around 1.8 million. Today, there are fewer than 27,000 jobs in plants operated by Chrysler and GM, and the overall population is just above 700,000. 'We got three casinos and two auto factories,' McGregor explained. 'We went from 35 to gaming for jobs.' McGregor's UAW Local 22 Detroit 36 workers at the GM Hamtramck plant still in operation here. A. inquire B. people C. demand D. make E. boasts F. represents G. employees H. symbolize I. plants J. manufacturing K. extinct L. population M. employers N. standard O. rate

单选题 Now listen to the following recording and answer questions16-18.