48. The writer wrote this passage ______.

　 A. to teach college students how to earn their first pot of gold

　 B. to introduce to us a new way through which students do part-time jobs

　 C. to advertise for an on-line outsourcing network

　 D. to attract more students to outsourcing jobs.

C

Live the ‘American Dream’

What is it: Work & Travel USA

Who are qualified: Full-time college students, above 18 years old.

About the program: Application for the 2009 Work & Travel USA program has just started. It’s an 8-16 week summer program for college students to work and travel in the US. Employers include Boeing, Hilton Hotel and 7-Eleven. For next summer, about 3,500 positions are open to Chinese Students. Applicants must pass a language test and sometimes an interview, and pay a registration fee to join the program.

　　　　　　　　 (source: www. cultureexchange.org)

Hundreds needed by Volkswagen

What is it: Shanghai Volkswagen jobs.

Who are qualified: College students graduating in 2009

About it: Shanghai VW offers over 300 positions from engineering to marketing to college students graduating in 2009. Applicants should have an excellent academic record, CET-6 or the same level language certificate in German, and good computer skills. Campus talks will take place in Shanghai, Changchun, Harbin, Wuhan, Changsha, Nanjing, Beijing and Xi’an from October.

　　　　　　　　　　　 (source:2009/pages/csvw)

Xiaonei looking for graduates

What is it: Oak Pacific Interactive (OPI) internships(实习)

What are qualified: College juniors and first-year post graduate students

About it: OPI is now offering internship positions for test-engineer, development-engineer and assistant to the director of corporate culture. For engineering positions, candidates should major in computer science or a related field, have communication ability and be familiar with various development language. For assistant to the director positions, candidates should be adept(拿手的) in document writing, activities organizing and office software.

　　　　　　　　　　　 (source:)

47. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one of the benefits of outsourcing jobs?

　 A. Making good money.　　　　　 B. Making better use of their free time.

　 C. Finding hot spots in their fields.　 D. Gaining experience

46. Doing outsourcing jobs, the students ______.

　 A. are paid 2,000 to 5,000

　 B. get the chance to meet their bosses

　 C. learn skills in many fields

　 D. are enjoying the advantages of globalization

45. Zhang Yineng earned his first pot of gold by working for ______.

　　　　　　　 B. an online outsourcing network

　 C. American websites　　　　 D. American companies

44. From the conversation between the man and the insurance salesman in the last paragraph we can infer that ______.

　 A. the man will buy a computer soon

　 B. it’s very easy to do tomato business

　 C. one does not necessarily have an e-mail address to be successful

　 D. the man is not able to buy any life insurance without an e-mail address

B

Zhang Yineng, a freshman at Hangzhou University, earned his first pot of gold by designing websites for American companies. Zhang never even met the people who hired him. Instead, all the necessary transactions (交易), a Hangzhou based online outsourcing network. Zhang has already earned enough money to pay for two semesters of university tuition.

Zhang is one of the growing number of college students tasting the fruit of globalization. They search for outsourcing projects in fields like programming, art design, translating and writing from both Western and domestic businesses.

This way of making money is becoming common among college students with free time, especially among those who are tech-savvy (有技术的). The payment for such work is rather high, partly because the tasks demand more skills than many other “traditional” part-time jobs do. For instance, creating a website for foreign companies pays $2,000 to $5,000, which is rather high.

The good money is just one benefit. These outsourcing jobs “can also help us to use the knowledge we gained in university,” said Zhang. “Through the tasks assigned by the companies, I can easily find the key hot spots in my field, and what abilities I am lacking. By doing the tasks, I can improve my skills and gain experience.”

43. The man’s tomatoes sell well because ______.

　 A. the tomatoes look very beautiful

　 B. he has chosen the right place to sell them

　 C. many jobless people help him

　 D. the tomatoes are contained in beautiful crates

42. The man applies for a cleaner’s job ______.

　 A. but he can’t accept it because the pay is too low

　 B. and he gets it though the pay is only $5.15 an hour

　 C. but he was turned down because he doesn’t have an e-mail address

　 D. but he misses the chance because they fail to contact him

41. The man’s kids drop out of school because ______.

　 A. they want to hang around with the local toughs

　 B. their mother watches TV all day

　 C. their father is only a cleaner

　 D. their family is very poor

39. A. too　　　　　　　　　　 B. very　　　　　　　　 C. that 　　　　　　　　 D. so