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8342 座位号 巨口 广东开放大学2016年上半年期末考试 英语(教育)专业《英语阅读(4)》试题 O

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-!---l-es!Passage I Directions: Answer the following questions by choosing A, B, C or D, on the Answer Sheet according to the passage (2.

5 points for each,

10 points 山total). As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn'

t good 二Unemployment is still more than

9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero. That'

s bad lbr the economy, of course. And it may be especially discouraging if you happen to be looking for a job or hoping to change careers right now But it actually shouldn'

t matter to you nearly as much

83 you think That'

s because job growth numbers 面叭 matter to job hunters as much as jeb turnover data. After all, existing jobs open up every day due to promotions, resignations, terminations, and retirements. In both good times and bad, turnover creates more 叩enings than economic growth does. Even in June of 2007, when the economy was still humming along, job growth was only 132,000, while turnover was 4.7 million! And as it wras out, yen today 一with job growth near zero 一over

4 million job hunters are being hired everypQfl 臾Idon'

t mcan to iiply that overall lob growth doesn'

t have an impact on oS'

s bi!ity to land ajob. It'

s trne that if total employment were higher, it would mean morejobs for all of us to choose from (and compete for) But what often distinguishes those who land jobs from those who don'

t is their ability to stay motivated. They'

re willing to do the hard work of identi 厅ing their valuable s kills;

be creative about where and how to look;

team how to present themselves to potential employers;

and keep going, even after repeated rejections (8342) 《英语阅读 (4) -0-0-0- 〔 〕 密00封00线0一0一忿-U- So doEft kt the headlines fool you into giving up. Four million people get hired every month in the U.S. You can be one of them ]The author tenth to believe that high unemployment rate__ 入deprives many people ofjob opportunities B. prevents many people from changing careers C. should not stop people from looking for ajob 0. does not mean 此U.S. economy is worscnthg 2.Where do mostjob openings come from? A. Job growth. B. Job turnover. C. Improved economy. 0. Business expansion 3. The underlined word '

humming in Paragraph

2 probably means_ A. failing B. satisfying C. growing 0. '

dispointing 4. What does the author say about overall job growth? A, It doesn'

t have much effect on individual job seekers B. It increases people'

s confidence in the economy -. - .z 了C. It gives a ray of hope to the unemployed a It doesn'

t mean greaterjob security for thee 呻loyed Passage

2 Directions: Answer the following questions by choosing A,n,C or 公, on the Answer Sheet according to the passage (2.5 points for each,

25 poInts iii total) How Did the Days of ihe Week心et Tirnir Nathes? : herc was a times in the earLy history of name when the days had no nainesl The reason was quite simpk: Men had not invented the week 勿those days, the only division of times was the month, and there were tOo thady days in the month for each of them to have a separates tiame. But when then beganto buildcities, they wanted to have a special day on which to trade, a market day. Sometimes these mitke days were fixed at every tenth day, sometimes every seventh or every fifth day. The B询loniatis 》试题第l页共6页decided that it should be every seventh day. On this day they didni work but met for trade and religious festivals The Jews followed their example, but kept every seventh day for religious purposes. In this way the week came into existence. It was the space between market days. The Jews gave each of the seven days a name, but it was really a number after the Sabbath day (which was For example. Wednesday was called the fourth day (fow days after Saturday) the Egypiians adopted the seen-day '