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[单项选择]Some time ago a friend who had lost his City job confessed he had considered killing himself. I was appalled but not surprised: while men are being hit harder by the recession than women they are also seem to be showing less resilience in dealing with unemployment and economic insecurity.
The trend in male unemployment, particularly among graduates and high-skilled men, did not begin with the recession and will not end with it. Rising male unemployment has been a feature of the socioeconomic change that many western countries have experienced in the last 30 years. Forecasts predict that women will dominate the professions within 15 years. This trend alone is enough for some to claim that a "crisis of masculinity(男子气)" is on the horizon.
The emerging knowledge economy demands a new, softer skill set—empathy, sociability, confidence, resourcefulness. Women are perceived as being better at soft skills, and now they count for more. In the course of just over a decade, Demos r
A. Men suffer far more than women from the recession.
B. Women will be in dominant position in workplace.
C. Rising male unemployment is a feature of the change.
D. Women outperform men in dealing with unemployment.
[单项选择]Conversation Two
A. He is sad to have lost his job.
B. He totally supports the woman’s choice.
C. He insists that the woman major in business.
D. He doesn’t believe in his wife.
[单项选择]William lost his job because
A. he was always sick.
B. he usually went to work late.
C. he made a mistake in his work.
D. he got angry with his boss.
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Neighbors
A year ago August,
Dave Fuss lost his job driving a truck for a small company in west Michigan. His
wife, Gerrie, was still 1 (work)in the
local school cafeteria, but work for Dave was scarce, and the price of
everything was rising. The Fusses were at risk of joining the millions of
Americans who have 2 (lose) their homes
in recent years. Then Dave and Gerrie received a timely gift-$ 7000, a legacy
(遗产)form their neighbors Ish and Arlene Hatch, who died in an accident. "It
really made a 3 (different)when we were
going under financially," says Dave.
But the Fusses weren’t the
only folks in Alto and the neighboring town of Lowell to receive unexpected
legacy from the Hatches. Dozens of other families were touched by the Hatches,
4 (generous). In some cases, it was a
few thousand dollars; in other, it was more than $100 000.
It
5 (surprise) nearly everyone that the
Hatches had so much money, more than $ 3 million-they were an elderly couple who
lived in an old house on what was left of the family farm.
Children of the Great Depression, Ish and Arlene were known for their habit of
6 (save). They thrived own (喜欢)
comparison shopping and would routinely go from store to store, checking prices
before 7 (make)a new
purchase.
Through the years, the Hatches paid for local
children to attend summer camp when their parents couldn’t
8 (afford) it. "Ish and Arlene never asked you needed
anything," says their friend Sand Van Weehten, "They could see thing they could
do to make you happier, and they would do them."
Even more
extraordinary was that the Hatches had their farmland
9 (distribute). It was the Hatches’ wish that their
legacy-a legacy of kindness as much as one of dollars and cents-should
10 (enrich) the whole community (社区)and Ish and
Arlene Hatch’s story.
Neighbors helping neighbors-that was Ish
and Arlene Hatch’s story.
[单项选择]If Tony ()more about his job, he would accomplish more at work
A. cares
B. cared
C. have cared
D. will care
[单项选择]Jackson changed his job because he_______.
A. hurt himself during his work.
B. was not satisfied with his pay.
C. wanted to work harder.
D. found the job too hard.