Preparing for the Next Job Market

The latest spike in the unemployment rate is being felt across the board ?in 98 percent of metropolitan areas, in high-wage and low-wage jobs, among young and old, women and men, but especially men.

This landscape means that young Americans who are trying to plan their futures right now have some hard choices.Do they go to college and take on debt without hope of getting a job? And what about high school students? Do they have any chance of securing a job without a college degree? Perhaps the education system needs to react to this rapidly moving economic crisis.

In our current economic collapse, the connection between education and employment could not be more different than it was during the Depression.Education must now hold center stage, not because of an enemy abroad but because of the global economy.The jobs of the future will demand levels of education, particularly skills in mathematics, technology and science, which exceed those now taught in high school.

A healthy society should strive for full employment.In our times, that goal cannot be realized, or even approximated by creating jobs for the unskilled.The long-term prospect for economic recovery depends on the extent to which we improve our educational system.And this is where America is now at its weakest.

C.We should limit access to four-year colleges.

D.We ought to recruit more private school teachers and train them better.

What does the word "collapse" in the third paragraph mean?

A.success          B.failure     C.development      D.booming

Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A.Young Americans planning their futures have difficult choices.

B.Education must hold center stage due to the global economy.

C.The best university system benefits a majority.

D.A health society should struggle for full employment.

Engagement, wedding, and birth of a baby are the three steps of a new family. The Danes’ special ways of doing these things inform their native culture.

People in other places of the world usually give their lovers a finger ring or a bundle of flowers as a gift of engagement.   36   in some areas of Denmark, it is still considered   37   

for a young man to   38   his fiancée with the wooden clappers once used to   39   clothes

  40   in a stream. These clappers were engraved with love-poems, and   41   tradition, they ensured good fortune and happiness.

And their country weddings also show a tint of local convention(传统). Until recently, a Danish country wedding was an event which   42   all who lived in the surrounding   43  . Everyone was tacitly(不言而喻地) invited to celebrate with the young couple. Preparations for the wedding lasted for many days but were made   44  , because to show happiness openly   45 

arouse the anger and jealousy of evil spirits.

46   the wedding morning the couple met in the courtyard of the bride’s house. The relatives and friend presented themselves to the couple, bowed and placed gifts at their feet. Every gift was   47   by good wishes recited in prose(散文) or in verse;   48   modest the gift the more elaborate(精致的) the wishes had to be.   49   who had neither the means to give   50 

the imagination to make a speech were, as a sign of their goodwill, placed   51   guard over the presents and, in the evening, over the couple’s bed.

      52   the conclusion of the ceremony a large jar of beer was taken to the courtyard. The hands of the betrothed(已订婚的) were joined over the jar and it was   53   into fragments(碎片). These pieces were picked   54   by the girls of marriageable age who were present, the girl with the largest   55   being destined to marry first.

36.A.However  B.But   C.Therefore  D.So

37.A.a luck       B.luck  C.lucky D.lucks

38.A.send  B.present     C.bring D.give

39.A.strike       B.beat   C.hit     D.blow

40.A.to wash    B.washed     C.to be washed    D.washing

41.A.according to     B.with a view to  C.so far as    D.in addition to

42.A.stated       B.related      C.concerned D.considered

43.A.area  B.district      C.zone  D.region

44.A.publicly    B.silently     C.unknowingly    D.secretly

45.A.would      B.should      C.must  D.may

46.A.At    B.In     C.On    D.To

47.A.completed B.accompanied    C.accomplished   D.matched

48.A.much more      B.the more   C.any more  D.more

49.A.These       B.Those       C.People     D.They

50.A.or     B.and   C.nor    D.then

51.A.in     B.on     C.at      D.against

52.A.At     B.In     C.To     D.For

53.A.smashed(弄碎) B.ruined      C.crashed     D.cracked

54.A.out    B.up     C.on     D.at

55.A.part   B.fragment   C.section      D.block

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