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Private Employers Drastically Cut Job Creation

Private employers drastically cut job creation during May 2010，according to a government report released on Friday．
Initially，the report appeared to show positive trends in the job market，with 431，000 jobs being added across the US-the highest figure since March 2000．On the surface the employment figures look great，but that beauty was only skin-deep．Within the private sector，only 41，000 jobs were created． (9) Although the 411，000 people hired by the Census did help to boost the economy and drive down unemployment rates，these jobs will no longer exist after the Census has been completed． (10)
The survey also revealed that the number of persons employed part-time for economic reasons declined by 343，000 in May to 8.8 million． (11) And now that private employers have cut job creation so severely，it seems this trend is set to continue for some time．

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Private employers drastically cut job creation during May 2010，according to a government report released on Friday．
Initially，the report appeared to show positive trends in the job market，with 431，000 jobs being added across the US-the highest figure since March 2000．On the surface the employment figures look great，but that beauty was only skin-deep．Within the private sector，only 41，000 jobs were created． (9) Although the 411，000 people hired by the Census did help to boost the economy and drive down unemployment rates，these jobs will no longer exist after the Census has been completed． (10)
The survey also revealed that the number of persons employed part-time for economic reasons declined by 343，000 in May to 8.8 million． (11) And now that private employers have cut job creation so severely，it seems this trend is set to continue for some time．

[单项选择]Job creation was better than _______ in September, according to a latest report.
A. expect
B. expecting
C. being expected
D. expected

[单项选择]Water supplies are cut
A. because the channels are broken
B. because of the high temperature
C. because wells are drying up
D. because of the rain

[单项选择]The recent creation of indexes tracking both stocks and bonds provides better benchmarking information for which of the following portfolios（　）
A. sector index funds.
B. the typical stock mutual fund.
C. investment funds broadly diversified across asset classes.

[单项选择]The computer network is a creation of the electronic age. In a computer system, a hacker is worse than a thief entering your house. He could go through anyone’s electronic mail or add to, change, distort or delete anything in the information stored in the computer’s memory. He could even take control of the entire system by inputting his own instructions in the software. He could shut the computer down whenever he wished, and no one could stop him. Then he could program the computer to erase any sign of his ever having been there.
Hacking, our electronic-age term for computer break-in, is more and more in the news: A dissatisfied former insurance-company employee wipes out information from payroll files. A student sends out a "virus", a secret and destructive command, over a national network. The virus copies itself at lighting speed, jamming the entire network--thousands of commercial and government computer systems. Now exists the possibility of terrorism by computer. Destroying
A. Add.
B. Change.
C. Remove.
D. Store.

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Always since the creation of celluloid, plastics have been found to have a multitude of industrial and commercial uses（）

A. Always
B. plastics
C. have
D. multitude

[单项选择]The creation of a universal language uniting all mankind is an idea that has interested scholars for several centuries. It is an exciting idea! Imagine a language which can break down the barriers that tend to separate the different peoples of the world. The idea has not been left to gather dust. Various attempts have been made to invent such a language. The most widely known invented language, Esperanto, has about one million speakers, but very few speakers use it as their everyday language. Considering that the world population is already over four billion, this is not a truly popular universal language. In fact, no invented language has ever been widely accepted.
The suggestion has been made that a true universal language exists already. Margaret Mead, among others, recently proposed that sign language is the universal language pat excellence. According to this claim, sign language is not only universal, but easy to learn. It could, therefore, be used by anyone for world-wide
A. has millions of speakers
B. is easy to learn
C. can present objects and events vividly
D. is shared by all human beings

[单项选择]The author considers the example of the creation of ant cemeteries to be novel for which of the following reasons
A. Ant cemeteries exhibit elements of activation but not inhibition, a proposition formerly questioned by Turing’s theory.
B. Ant cemeteries exhibit Turing patterns in the absence of the predator-prey system.
C. Ant cemeteries involve self-amplification activation, as opposed to amplification from outside sources.
D. Ants are considered a higher organism, in which Turing patterns have never previously been established.
E. Turing’s theory has only explained the distribution of ants across the ecosystem, until now.

[填空题]People cut paper with it.

[填空题]il vécut ( )

[填空题]We cut things with it.