Nanning: With the number of college graduates climbing to a record high this year—some 2. 12 million are entering the job market, an increase of 670 000, or 46. 2 percent, over last year, many people are asking if China’s first “McDonald’s generation”, born in the early 1980s, can stand the intense competition and find a place in the job market. They say this will be a test of both China’s job market and its carefree younger generation.

“Do not worry. We’ll get whatever we want, ”they tell each other to ease their own anxiety.

Born in the early days of the country’s reform and opening to the outside world, growing up in the market economy, the youngsters, familiar with McDonald’s and Mickey Mouse, love to eat hamburgers, and wear foreign brand jeans and T-shirts and worship Bill Gates. Compared with their parents, they enjoy more freedom in looking for a job—and with that freedom come burdens.

These college graduates are seen scouring recruitment information in newspapers and journals, the Internet and job markets nationwide.

Shortly after hotel management major Hao Wenhua, a young woman from Chongqing in Southwest China, failed the recruitment test of a five-star hotel in Guilin, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. She appeared at a job market in Nanning, approximately 300 kilometers from Guilin, looking rather tired.

Many businesses and companies say that they would take on experienced staff rather than the new graduates who are short of the experience of how to succeed in today’s fastpaced society.

1. Which of the following groups of people belongs to China’s first McDonald’s generation?

A. People who were born in the early days of China’s reform and opening to the outside world.

B. People who like to eat hamburgers and wear foreign brand clothes.

C. People who admire Bill Gates.

D. People who lack the experience of how to succeed in today’s fast changing world.

2. Which of the following explanation is closest in meaning with the underlined word “scouring”in the passage?

A. Studying.                           B. Going through.

C. Collecting.                          D. Copying.

3. What can we infer from the story of Hao Wenhua in the passage?  We can infer______.

A. that there are many chances to find jobs in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

B. that hotel management is not a good major in college

C. that there is intense competition in the job market

D. that many businesses and companies don’t like new college graduates

4. What is the best title for the passage?

A. Fierce competition in the job market

B. McDonald’s generation has grown up

C. McDonald’s generation faces job hunt

D. The number of college graduates climbs to the highest point

 

根据首字母和上下文完成句子:

1. Please come and see me whenever it is c_________to you.

2. Albert Einstein once said, “ __________(想象力)is more important than knowledge.

3. To p _____and encourage the communication of arts and international culture, Shanghai International Arts Festival will be held next month.

4. The news on this web is u ______every day; you can get information about what happens around the world in time.

5. While we were in Guilin, it rained for two days,__________(彻底地)ruining our holiday.

6. Technology has made the delivery of information less difficult, thus making information             

   (可得到的) to more people.

7. My father is fairly c___________with my study.

8. Jim, if you were free to d________your own dream house, what would that house look like?

9. Some famous people are often asked to make _________(评论) on current affairs.

10.I felt it so difficult to live in an English-speaking country that I _________(决定) to learn English well.

11.The store has an a ______in the newspaper of a special sale.

12.Televion has had a p________influence on young people.

13.I don’t know how he made his money, __________(最初).

14.Do you s_________the entry requirements for that college?

15.We went to a beautiful town and spent an_________ (难忘的) day.

16.The________(观众) are dressed in a variety of ways, some in suits and dresses, some in jeans.

17.He wanted to make his living in the arts rather than in the c__________world.

18.This dictionary is p____________useful for students.

19.These two nations had been at war c________for eight years.

20.When learning a foreign language, the best a________is the study of the spoken language.

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