单选题The growth of part-time and flexible working pattern, and of training and retraining schemes, ______ more women to take advantage of employment opportunities.A have allowed B allow C allowsD allowing
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第1题：
The text intends to tell us that
A．the change of human height follows a cyclic pattern.
B．human height is becoming even more predictable.
C．Americans have reached their genetic growth limit.
D．the genetic pattern of Americans has altered.
正确答案：C从全文中心来看，文章并不是以“predict human height”为中心的，而是在谈美国人身高问题。所以C选项为正确选项。 -
第2题：
It is said in th．e passage that when the economy slides ( )．
A． men would choose working women as their marriage partners
B． more women would get married to seek financial security
C． even working women would worry about their marriages
D． more people would prefer to remain single for the time being
正确答案：D
D [解析]由第一段的“Data show that economic downturns tend to put off marriage because the parties cannot afford to establish a family or are concerned about rainy days ahead.”可推出D项符合原文意思。 -
第3题：
Some companies have introduced flexible working time with less emphasis on pressure ____A.than more on efficiency
B.and more on efficiency
C.and more efficiency
D.than efficiency答案：B解析：本题考查固定句式
B选项，句意：有些公司采用弹性工作时间制，更注重效率，而不是压力。pressure和efficiency处于并列的位置，所以正确答案是B项。
A选项，and more on efficiency即more(emphasis) on efficiency，A选项多了than，故排除。
C选项，少了固定搭配的介词on，故排除。
D选项，与题干不符，故排除。
故正确答案为B 项。 -
第4题：
Text 2 Far from joining the labour force,women have been falling away at an alarming pace.The female employment rate in India,counting both the formal and informal economy,has tumbled from an already-low 35%in 2005 to just 26%now.Yet nearly 1Om fewer women are in jobs.A rise in female employment rates to the male level would provide India with an extra 235m workers,more than the EU has of either gender,and more than enough to fill all the factories in the rest ofAsia.Imagine the repercussions.Were India to rebalance its workforce in this way,the IMF estimates,the world's biggest democracy would be 27%richer.Its people would be well on their way to middle-income status.Beyond the obvious economic benelits are the incalculable human ones.Women who work are likelier to invest more in their children's upbringing,and to have more say over how they lead their lives.Social mores are startlingly conservative.A girl's first task is to persuade her own family that she should have a job.The in-laws she will typically move in with after marriage are even more likely to yank her out of the workforce and into social isolation.In a survey in 2012,84%of Indians agreed that men have more right to work than women when jobs are scarce.Men have taken 90%of the 36m additional jobs in industry India has created since 2005.And those who say that women themselves prefer not to work must contend with plenty of counter-evidence.Census data suggest that a third of stay-at-home women would WOfk ifjobs were available;govemment make-work schemes attract more women than men.What can be done?Many of the standard answers fall short.Promoting education,a time-tested development strategy,may not succeed.Figures show that the more schooling an Indian woman receives,the less likely she is to work,at least if she has anything less than a university degree.Likewise urbanization,another familiar way to alleviate poverty:city-dwelling women are half as likely as rural ones to have a job.An optimist might argue that more women are not working because India is still paying for the sins of the past,when so many of them were illiterate and high fertility rates bound them to the home.Most measures of female welfare are improving.India has many more girls in classrooms and fewer child brides than it once did.In fact,many fear that all that extra schooling was a parental ploy to improve a daughter's prospects not in the labour market but in the arranged-marriage market,part of the all-important quest to snag a suitable boy.A further push is needed to get Indian women what they really need:a suitable job.
An optimist may hold that lead to the phenomenon that more women are not working_____A.crimes committed in the past
B.preferences for early marriage
C.illiteracy and parenting duty
D.pressures from the poor welfare答案：C解析：事实细节题。根据定位词定位到第五段。原文指出，乐观主义者可能会说，更多的女性没有工作，是因为印度仍在为过去的罪恶买单。当时很多女性都是文盲，高生育率让她们不得不待在家里，C项符合原文所述，故C项为正确选项。【干扰排除】文章并没有提到过去犯了什么罪，A项错误；B、D项与本题无关，故排除。 -
第5题：
Text 2 Far from joining the labour force,women have been falling away at an alarming pace.The female employment rate in India,counting both the formal and informal economy,has tumbled from an already-low 35%in 2005 to just 26%now.Yet nearly 1Om fewer women are in jobs.A rise in female employment rates to the male level would provide India with an extra 235m workers,more than the EU has of either gender,and more than enough to fill all the factories in the rest ofAsia.Imagine the repercussions.Were India to rebalance its workforce in this way,the IMF estimates,the world's biggest democracy would be 27%richer.Its people would be well on their way to middle-income status.Beyond the obvious economic benelits are the incalculable human ones.Women who work are likelier to invest more in their children's upbringing,and to have more say over how they lead their lives.Social mores are startlingly conservative.A girl's first task is to persuade her own family that she should have a job.The in-laws she will typically move in with after marriage are even more likely to yank her out of the workforce and into social isolation.In a survey in 2012,84%of Indians agreed that men have more right to work than women when jobs are scarce.Men have taken 90%of the 36m additional jobs in industry India has created since 2005.And those who say that women themselves prefer not to work must contend with plenty of counter-evidence.Census data suggest that a third of stay-at-home women would WOfk ifjobs were available;govemment make-work schemes attract more women than men.What can be done?Many of the standard answers fall short.Promoting education,a time-tested development strategy,may not succeed.Figures show that the more schooling an Indian woman receives,the less likely she is to work,at least if she has anything less than a university degree.Likewise urbanization,another familiar way to alleviate poverty:city-dwelling women are half as likely as rural ones to have a job.An optimist might argue that more women are not working because India is still paying for the sins of the past,when so many of them were illiterate and high fertility rates bound them to the home.Most measures of female welfare are improving.India has many more girls in classrooms and fewer child brides than it once did.In fact,many fear that all that extra schooling was a parental ploy to improve a daughter's prospects not in the labour market but in the arranged-marriage market,part of the all-important quest to snag a suitable boy.A further push is needed to get Indian women what they really need:a suitablejob.
Which ofthe following would be the best title ofthe text?A.Why Indian Women Don't Work
B.Why India Needs Women to Work
C.Why India's Employment Rate Is Low
D.Why India's Employment Rate Declines答案：B解析：主旨大意题。本文主要讲了印度女性就业率低的原因，印度想要平衡劳动力及女性需要工作的原因，故B项为正确选项。【干扰排除】A项，文中说的是印度女性就业率低，而不是不工作；c项是文章的一部分，不能概括文章主旨；D项，原文并未提及印度就业率下降的原因。故均排除。 -
第6题：
Text 4 Many people talked of the 288,000 new jobs the Labor Department reported for June,along with the drop in the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent,as good news.And they were right.For now it appears the economy is creating jobs at a decent pace.We still have a long way to go to get back to full employment,but at least we are now finally moving forward at a faster pace.However,there is another important part of the jobs picture that was largely overlooked.There was a big jump in the number of people who report voluntarily working part-time.This figure is now 830,000（4.4 percent）above its year ago level.Before explaining the connection to the Obamacare,it is worth making an important distinction.Many people who work part-time jobs actually want full-time jobs.They take part-time work because this is all they can get.An increase in involuntary part-time work is evidence of weakness in the labor market and it means that many people will be having a very hard time making ends meet.There was an increase in involuntary part-time in June,but the general direction has been down.Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the recession,but it is down by 640,000（7.9percent）from its year ago level.We know the difference between voluntary and involuntary part-time employment because people tell us.The survey used by the Labor Department asks people if they worked less than 35 hours in the reference week.If the answer is“yes”,they are classified as working part-time.The survey then asks whether they worked less than 35 hours in that week because they wanted to work less than full time or because they had no choice.They are only classified as voluntary part-time workers if they tell the survey taker they chose to work less than 35 hours a week.The issue of voluntary part-time relates to Obamacare because one of the main purposes was to allow people to get insurance outside of employment.For many people,especially those with serious health conditions or family members with serious health conditions,before Obamacare the only way to get insurance was through a job that provided health insurance.However,Obamacare has allowed more than 12 million people to either get insurance through Medicaid or the exchanges.These are people who may previously have felt the need to get a full-time job that provided insurance in order to cover themselves and their families.With Obamacare there is no longer a link between employment and insurance.
It can be learned that with Obamacare,____A.it is no longer easy for parttimers to get insurance
B.employment is no longer a precondition to get insurance
C.it is still challenging to get insurance for family members
D.fulltime employment is still essential for insurance答案：B解析：细节题【命题思路】这是细节题。主要考查考生准确借助题干关键信息定位，并准确划分和把握定位信息的能力。【直击答案】根据题干关键信息“Obamacare”以及出题顺序性原则，定位到第六段。第六段共两句话，第一句提到了Obamacare的目的，是让无业人士也可以拥有保险。第二句进一步展开说明，在Obamacare之前，人们想要获得保险必须先获得一份提供保险的工作；而Obamacare改变了这一局面。比对选项，对应B项“employment is no longer a precondition to get insurance”是对以上信息的同义改写，确定为最佳答案。【干扰排除】A项是反向干扰，文中最后一段表明奥巴马医改正是为了使兼职员工也有可能获得保险，故排除。C项无中生有，文中并未提及家庭成员获取保险的难度，故排除。D项属反向干扰，与文中提到的它们之间的关系已经不复存在不符合，故排除。 -
第7题：
Text 2 Far from joining the labour force,women have been falling away at an alarming pace.The female employment rate in India,counting both the formal and informal economy,has tumbled from an already-low 35%in 2005 to just 26%now.Yet nearly 1Om fewer women are in jobs.A rise in female employment rates to the male level would provide India with an extra 235m workers,more than the EU has of either gender,and more than enough to fill all the factories in the rest ofAsia.Imagine the repercussions.Were India to rebalance its workforce in this way,the IMF estimates,the world's biggest democracy would be 27%richer.Its people would be well on their way to middle-income status.Beyond the obvious economic benelits are the incalculable human ones.Women who work are likelier to invest more in their children's upbringing,and to have more say over how they lead their lives.Social mores are startlingly conservative.A girl's first task is to persuade her own family that she should have a job.The in-laws she will typically move in with after marriage are even more likely to yank her out of the workforce and into social isolation.In a survey in 2012,84%of Indians agreed that men have more right to work than women when jobs are scarce.Men have taken 90%of the 36m additional jobs in industry India has created since 2005.And those who say that women themselves prefer not to work must contend with plenty of counter-evidence.Census data suggest that a third of stay-at-home women would WOfk ifjobs were available;govemment make-work schemes attract more women than men.What can be done?Many of the standard answers fall short.Promoting education,a time-tested development strategy,may not succeed.Figures show that the more schooling an Indian woman receives,the less likely she is to work,at least if she has anything less than a university degree.Likewise urbanization,another familiar way to alleviate poverty:city-dwelling women are half as likely as rural ones to have a job.An optimist might argue that more women are not working because India is still paying for the sins of the past,when so many of them were illiterate and high fertility rates bound them to the home.Most measures of female welfare are improving.India has many more girls in classrooms and fewer child brides than it once did.In fact,many fear that all that extra schooling was a parental ploy to improve a daughter's prospects not in the labour market but in the arranged-marriage market,part of the all-important quest to snag a suitable boy.A further push is needed to get Indian women what they really need:a suitable job.Better education may not function because_____A.higher educated women are reluctant to work
B.higher education is not equal to higher possibility of work
C.women living in rural are less likely to join work
D.higher education failed to stand the test oftime答案：B解析：事实细节题。根据定位词定位到文章第四段。原文指出，促进教育——一个经过时间考验的发展战略，可能不会成功。数据显示，印度女性接受的教育程度越高，就越不可能去工作，至少如果她的学历低于大学学历的话，B项为其同义替换表达，故B项为正确选项。【干扰排除】原文并未提及愿不愿意工作，故A项排除；原文指出，居住在城市的女性找到工作的可能性只有农村女性的一半．C项错误；D项属于无中生有。 -
第8题：
共用题干
第三篇
Food for Learning
In Eritrea,a small country in northeast Africa,approximately 80 percent of the population is illiterate.
That percentage is even higher for women.As in many developing countries,most Eritreans have traditional
ideas about the role of women.They believe that women should stay home and take care of the family and
should not get an education or look for a job.
These beliefs are one of the factors that prevent Eritrea and other developing countries from improving
their economic situation. Experience in many countries has shown that educated women have fewer children
and have more opportunities for improving their lives and the lives of their families.In Eritrea,in fact,there is
great need for improvement.It is one of the poorest countries in the world.For many Eritrean families,getting
enough food is a daily problem.
To deal with these problems,the Eritrean government,together with the World Food Program,has a new
program that offers food as a reward for learning. In primary schools,all the children receive food packages to
take home to their families.However,with the new program,the girls receive 50 percent more food than the
boys.This way,parents are encouraged to send their daughters to school rather than keeping them at home.
Another government program that aims to educate women is Food for Training. Managed by the National
Union of Eritrean Women,this pro缪m offers food rewards(also from the World Food Organization)to women
and older girls who are willing to join the program.Because of the war with Ethiopia,many women are bring-
ing up their families on their own.They often live in refugee camps,with no land of their own and no way to
earn money. Most of these women are illiterate and have no skills to find a job.They spend most of their day
looking for food and preparing it for their families.
The Food for Training program helps the teenagers and women change their lives.If they agree to join
he program,they receive a large package of food each month.In return,the women are required to attend free
literacy classes for two卜ours every day. When Food for Training started with classes in two regions of Eritrea,
5,000 girls and women joined in the first two months.It is especially popular with teenage girls,aged fourteen
to sixteen,who have never had a chance to go to school before.
The organizers of Food for Training also plan to offer other kinds of courses for women,using the same
system of food rewards.In these courses,they will teach women job skills and crafts,such as basket weaving.
These women will not only learn to read and write,but also become aware of what is going on in their coun-
try，and they will be able to have a voice in their future.The Eritrean government is offering extra food to girls in school in order to________.
A:encourage parents to keep girls at home
B:change traditional attitudes towards women
C:help girls feed their families
D:create more jobs for Eritrean teachers答案：B解析：短文第二段第一句提到，是对妇女的传统观点影响了经济的发展，故选C。
从短文第三段中间可知，政府此举在于改变对妇女的传统观念。
从短文第五段第三句可知，只要她们参加免费的识字课就可以领到食物，所以选A。
从短文第三段第一句可知，这一项目是厄立特里亚政府和国际组织合作的结果。因 此，选项C正确。
从短文第五段的第一句可知，该项目旨在改善妇女的生活条件。 -
第9题：
共用题干
第三篇
Food for Learning
In Eritrea,a small country in northeast Africa,approximately 80 percent of the population is illiterate.
That percentage is even higher for women.As in many developing countries,most Eritreans have traditional
ideas about the role of women.They believe that women should stay home and take care of the family and
should not get an education or look for a job.
These beliefs are one of the factors that prevent Eritrea and other developing countries from improving
their economic situation. Experience in many countries has shown that educated women have fewer children
and have more opportunities for improving their lives and the lives of their families.In Eritrea,in fact,there is
great need for improvement.It is one of the poorest countries in the world.For many Eritrean families,getting
enough food is a daily problem.
To deal with these problems,the Eritrean government,together with the World Food Program,has a new
program that offers food as a reward for learning. In primary schools,all the children receive food packages to
take home to their families.However,with the new program,the girls receive 50 percent more food than the
boys.This way,parents are encouraged to send their daughters to school rather than keeping them at home.
Another government program that aims to educate women is Food for Training. Managed by the National
Union of Eritrean Women,this pro缪m offers food rewards(also from the World Food Organization)to women
and older girls who are willing to join the program.Because of the war with Ethiopia,many women are bring-
ing up their families on their own.They often live in refugee camps,with no land of their own and no way to
earn money. Most of these women are illiterate and have no skills to find a job.They spend most of their day
looking for food and preparing it for their families.
The Food for Training program helps the teenagers and women change their lives.If they agree to join
he program,they receive a large package of food each month.In return,the women are required to attend free
literacy classes for two卜ours every day. When Food for Training started with classes in two regions of Eritrea,
5,000 girls and women joined in the first two months.It is especially popular with teenage girls,aged fourteen
to sixteen,who have never had a chance to go to school before.
The organizers of Food for Training also plan to offer other kinds of courses for women,using the same
system of food rewards.In these courses,they will teach women job skills and crafts,such as basket weaving.
These women will not only learn to read and write,but also become aware of what is going on in their coun-
try，and they will be able to have a voice in their future.According to the passage,Food for Training will_________.
A:help women better their lives
B:encourage women to leave their country
C:teach women about international aid
D:allow women to spend more time at home答案：A解析：短文第二段第一句提到，是对妇女的传统观点影响了经济的发展，故选C。
从短文第三段中间可知，政府此举在于改变对妇女的传统观念。
从短文第五段第三句可知，只要她们参加免费的识字课就可以领到食物，所以选A。
从短文第三段第一句可知，这一项目是厄立特里亚政府和国际组织合作的结果。因 此，选项C正确。
从短文第五段的第一句可知，该项目旨在改善妇女的生活条件。 -
第10题：
单选题The growth of part-time and flexible working pattern, and of training and retraining schemes, ______ more women to take advantage of employment opportunities.Ahave allowed
Ballow
Callows
Dallowing
正确答案： D解析：
本句的主语是the growth，因此谓语动词应该为第三人称单数。句意：兼职和弹性工作方式与培训和再培训方案的增加/发展使得越来越多的妇女有更多的就业机会。 -
第11题：
单选题The growth of part-time and flexible working pattern, and of training and retraining schemes, _____ more women to take advantage of employment opportunities.Ahave allowed
Ballow
Callows
Dallowing
正确答案： A解析：
本句的主语是the growth，因此谓语动词应该为第三人称单数。句意：兼职和弹性工作方式与培训和再培训方案的增加/发展使得越来越多的妇女有更多的就业机会。 -
第12题：
单选题If we _____ the oil company to build this paper mill, we _____ water pollution now.Ahad not allowed, would not have
Bhad not allowed, would not have had
Cdidn’t allow, would not have
Ddidn’t allow, would not have had
正确答案： C解析：
句意：如果当初我们不允许石油公司建造这个造纸厂，今天就不会出现水污染的问题了。从句是对过去事实的虚拟，用过去完成时：情态动词＋动词过去分词。主句是对现在事实的虚拟，用would＋be/动词原形结构。 -
第13题：
根据下面，回答45 ~48 题：B
Having a husband means an extra seven hours of housework each week for women, according to a new study. For men, getting married saves an hour of housework a week. “It’s a well-known pattern,” said lead researcher Frank Stafford at University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. “Men usually work more outside the home, while women take on more of the housework.”
He points out that differences among households（家庭）exist. But in general, marriage means more housework for women and less for men. “And the situation gets worse for women when they have children,” Stafford said．
Overall, times are changing in the American home. In 1976, women busied themselves with 26 weekly hours of sweeping-and-dusting work, compared with 17 hours in 2005. Men are taking on more housework, more than doubling their housework hours from six in 1976 to 13 in 2005.
Single women in their 20s and 30s did the least housework, about 12 weekly hours, while married women in their 60s and 70s did the most-about 21 hours a week.
Men showed a somewhat different pattern, with older men picking up the broom more often than younger men. Single men worked the hardest around the house, more than that of all other age groups of married men.
Having children increases housework even further. With more than three children, for example, wives took on more of the extra work, clocking about 28 hours a week compared with husbands’10 hours.
第5题：According to the “well-known pattern” in Paragraph 1, a married man___________.
A．takes on heavier work
B．does more housework
C．is the main breadwinner
D．is the master of the house
正确答案：C
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第14题：
It can be inferred from the passage that early historians of women’s labor in the United States paid little attention to women’s employment in the service sector of the economy because________．
A．fewer women found employment in the service sector than in factory work
B．the wages paid to workers in the service sector were much lower than those paid in the industrial sector
C．women’s employment in the service sector tended to be much more short—term than in factory work
D．employment in the service sector seemed to have much in common with the unpaid work associated with homemaking
正确答案：D
本题和上题的根据同出一处，根据上题答案，选项D正确，服务行业之所以所以少受早期历史学家关注，是因为它看上去和妇女无报酬的家务劳动太相像。 -
第15题：
According to the contract，transshipment is not ( ).
A. allowing B. allowed C. being allowed D. allow答案：B解析： -
第16题：
Text 4 Many people talked of the 288,000 new jobs the Labor Department reported for June,along with the drop in the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent,as good news.And they were right.For now it appears the economy is creating jobs at a decent pace.We still have a long way to go to get back to full employment,but at least we are now finally moving forward at a faster pace.However,there is another important part of the jobs picture that was largely overlooked.There was a big jump in the number of people who report voluntarily working part-time.This figure is now 830,000（4.4 percent）above its year ago level.Before explaining the connection to the Obamacare,it is worth making an important distinction.Many people who work part-time jobs actually want full-time jobs.They take part-time work because this is all they can get.An increase in involuntary part-time work is evidence of weakness in the labor market and it means that many people will be having a very hard time making ends meet.There was an increase in involuntary part-time in June,but the general direction has been down.Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the recession,but it is down by 640,000（7.9percent）from its year ago level.We know the difference between voluntary and involuntary part-time employment because people tell us.The survey used by the Labor Department asks people if they worked less than 35 hours in the reference week.If the answer is“yes”,they are classified as working part-time.The survey then asks whether they worked less than 35 hours in that week because they wanted to work less than full time or because they had no choice.They are only classified as voluntary part-time workers if they tell the survey taker they chose to work less than 35 hours a week.The issue of voluntary part-time relates to Obamacare because one of the main purposes was to allow people to get insurance outside of employment.For many people,especially those with serious health conditions or family members with serious health conditions,before Obamacare the only way to get insurance was through a job that provided health insurance.However,Obamacare has allowed more than 12 million people to either get insurance through Medicaid or the exchanges.These are people who may previously have felt the need to get a full-time job that provided insurance in order to cover themselves and their families.With Obamacare there is no longer a link between employment and insurance.
Which part of the jobs picture was neglected?A.The prospect of a thriving job market.
B.The increase of voluntary parttime jobs.
C.The possibility of full employment.
D.The acceleration of job creation.答案：B解析：细节题【命题思路】这是一道细节题。主要考查考生准确理解题干，精准定位，并能正确划分和掌握定位信息的能力。【直击答案】根据题干关键信息“job pictures，neglected”定位到第二段第一句“the jobs picture…was largely overlooked”，其中“neglected是overlooked”的同义替换。第二句具体指出被忽略的部分是“there was a big jump in the number of people who report voluntarily working parttime”，即有大量的人自愿从事兼职工作。比对四个选项，确定正确答案为B项。其中“increase”是原文“jump”的同义替换，“voluntary parttime jobs”是“voluntarily working parttime”的同义转述。【干扰排除】A、D两项均表明就业形势良好，并没有说这种现象被忽视，与题干不相关，故排除。文中第一段只是客观描述了我们依然要走很长的路才能达到全民就业，而并不是说这种问题被忽略，故C项排除。 -
第17题：
Text 4 Many people talked of the 288,000 new jobs the Labor Department reported for June,along with the drop in the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent,as good news.And they were right.For now it appears the economy is creating jobs at a decent pace.We still have a long way to go to get back to full employment,but at least we are now finally moving forward at a faster pace.However,there is another important part of the jobs picture that was largely overlooked.There was a big jump in the number of people who report voluntarily working part-time.This figure is now 830,000（4.4 percent）above its year ago level.Before explaining the connection to the Obamacare,it is worth making an important distinction.Many people who work part-time jobs actually want full-time jobs.They take part-time work because this is all they can get.An increase in involuntary part-time work is evidence of weakness in the labor market and it means that many people will be having a very hard time making ends meet.There was an increase in involuntary part-time in June,but the general direction has been down.Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the recession,but it is down by 640,000（7.9percent）from its year ago level.We know the difference between voluntary and involuntary part-time employment because people tell us.The survey used by the Labor Department asks people if they worked less than 35 hours in the reference week.If the answer is“yes”,they are classified as working part-time.The survey then asks whether they worked less than 35 hours in that week because they wanted to work less than full time or because they had no choice.They are only classified as voluntary part-time workers if they tell the survey taker they chose to work less than 35 hours a week.The issue of voluntary part-time relates to Obamacare because one of the main purposes was to allow people to get insurance outside of employment.For many people,especially those with serious health conditions or family members with serious health conditions,before Obamacare the only way to get insurance was through a job that provided health insurance.However,Obamacare has allowed more than 12 million people to either get insurance through Medicaid or the exchanges.These are people who may previously have felt the need to get a full-time job that provided insurance in order to cover themselves and their families.With Obamacare there is no longer a link between employment and insurance.
The text mainly discusses____A.employment in the US
B.parttimer classification
C.insurance through Medicaid
D.Obamacare's trouble答案：A解析：主旨题【命题思路】这是一道主旨题。主要考查考生对全文主题的把握，要求考生能用具有概括性的语言全面总结全文中心思想。【直击答案】本题难度稍大，建议归纳各段要点，综合排除得出正确答案。文章首段指出目前的失业率呈现出下降的趋势；第二段提出在这种失业率下降的好现象中，我们忽略了那些自愿（voluntary）参加兼职工作的人。第三段就自愿兼职工作者和非自愿兼职工作者的区别展开描述。最后两段表明，那些自愿参加兼职工作的人是因为有了一项名为Obamacare的政策，该政策旨在使那些没有全职工作的人也有可能获得保险，从而提升就业率。可见，全文都是围绕美国的就业形势展开讨论。故A项正确。【干扰排除】B项无中生有。C项中的“Medicaid”仅出现在文章结尾，属于细节干扰。D项与作者立场相反，故排除。 -
第18题：
Text 4 Many people talked of the 288,000 new jobs the Labor Department reported for June,along with the drop in the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent,as good news.And they were right.For now it appears the economy is creating jobs at a decent pace.We still have a long way to go to get back to full employment,but at least we are now finally moving forward at a faster pace.However,there is another important part of the jobs picture that was largely overlooked.There was a big jump in the number of people who report voluntarily working part-time.This figure is now 830,000（4.4 percent）above its year ago level.Before explaining the connection to the Obamacare,it is worth making an important distinction.Many people who work part-time jobs actually want full-time jobs.They take part-time work because this is all they can get.An increase in involuntary part-time work is evidence of weakness in the labor market and it means that many people will be having a very hard time making ends meet.There was an increase in involuntary part-time in June,but the general direction has been down.Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the recession,but it is down by 640,000（7.9percent）from its year ago level.We know the difference between voluntary and involuntary part-time employment because people tell us.The survey used by the Labor Department asks people if they worked less than 35 hours in the reference week.If the answer is“yes”,they are classified as working part-time.The survey then asks whether they worked less than 35 hours in that week because they wanted to work less than full time or because they had no choice.They are only classified as voluntary part-time workers if they tell the survey taker they chose to work less than 35 hours a week.The issue of voluntary part-time relates to Obamacare because one of the main purposes was to allow people to get insurance outside of employment.For many people,especially those with serious health conditions or family members with serious health conditions,before Obamacare the only way to get insurance was through a job that provided health insurance.However,Obamacare has allowed more than 12 million people to either get insurance through Medicaid or the exchanges.These are people who may previously have felt the need to get a full-time job that provided insurance in order to cover themselves and their families.With Obamacare there is no longer a link between employment and insurance.
Many people work parttime because they_____A.prefer parttime jobs to fulltime jobs
B.feel that is enough to make ends meet
C.cannot get their hands on fulltime jobs
D.haven't seen the weakness of the market答案：C解析：细节题【命题思路】这是一道细节题。主要考查考生准确理解题干，精准定位，并能正确划分和掌握定位信息的能力。【直击答案】根据题干关键词“many people work parttime”定位到第三段第二句“Many people who work parttime jobs actually want fulltime jobs”。由此句可知，那些从事兼职工作的人实际想拥有全日制工作。接着第三句明确指出他们从事兼职工作的原因：“They take parttime because this is all they can get”。言外之意是说，人们目前只能得到兼职工作，而无法获得全职工作。故正确答案为C项。【干扰排除】A项、B项、D项在文中均没有出现，属于无中生有。 -
第19题：
共用题干
第三篇
Food for Learning
In Eritrea,a small country in northeast Africa,approximately 80 percent of the population is illiterate.
That percentage is even higher for women.As in many developing countries,most Eritreans have traditional
ideas about the role of women.They believe that women should stay home and take care of the family and
should not get an education or look for a job.
These beliefs are one of the factors that prevent Eritrea and other developing countries from improving
their economic situation. Experience in many countries has shown that educated women have fewer children
and have more opportunities for improving their lives and the lives of their families.In Eritrea,in fact,there is
great need for improvement.It is one of the poorest countries in the world.For many Eritrean families,getting
enough food is a daily problem.
To deal with these problems,the Eritrean government,together with the World Food Program,has a new
program that offers food as a reward for learning. In primary schools,all the children receive food packages to
take home to their families.However,with the new program,the girls receive 50 percent more food than the
boys.This way,parents are encouraged to send their daughters to school rather than keeping them at home.
Another government program that aims to educate women is Food for Training. Managed by the National
Union of Eritrean Women,this pro缪m offers food rewards(also from the World Food Organization)to women
and older girls who are willing to join the program.Because of the war with Ethiopia,many women are bring-
ing up their families on their own.They often live in refugee camps,with no land of their own and no way to
earn money. Most of these women are illiterate and have no skills to find a job.They spend most of their day
looking for food and preparing it for their families.
The Food for Training program helps the teenagers and women change their lives.If they agree to join
he program,they receive a large package of food each month.In return,the women are required to attend free
literacy classes for two卜ours every day. When Food for Training started with classes in two regions of Eritrea,
5,000 girls and women joined in the first two months.It is especially popular with teenage girls,aged fourteen
to sixteen,who have never had a chance to go to school before.
The organizers of Food for Training also plan to offer other kinds of courses for women,using the same
system of food rewards.In these courses,they will teach women job skills and crafts,such as basket weaving.
These women will not only learn to read and write,but also become aware of what is going on in their coun-
try，and they will be able to have a voice in their future.With the Food for Training program,women get a large package of food as long as__________.
A: they attend free literacy classes every day
B:they have no land of their own
C:they bring up their families on their own
D:they live in refugee camps答案：A解析：短文第二段第一句提到，是对妇女的传统观点影响了经济的发展，故选C。
从短文第三段中间可知，政府此举在于改变对妇女的传统观念。
从短文第五段第三句可知，只要她们参加免费的识字课就可以领到食物，所以选A。
从短文第三段第一句可知，这一项目是厄立特里亚政府和国际组织合作的结果。因 此，选项C正确。
从短文第五段的第一句可知，该项目旨在改善妇女的生活条件。 -
第20题：
共用题干
第三篇
Food for Learning
In Eritrea,a small country in northeast Africa,approximately 80 percent of the population is illiterate.
That percentage is even higher for women.As in many developing countries,most Eritreans have traditional
ideas about the role of women.They believe that women should stay home and take care of the family and
should not get an education or look for a job.
These beliefs are one of the factors that prevent Eritrea and other developing countries from improving
their economic situation. Experience in many countries has shown that educated women have fewer children
and have more opportunities for improving their lives and the lives of their families.In Eritrea,in fact,there is
great need for improvement.It is one of the poorest countries in the world.For many Eritrean families,getting
enough food is a daily problem.
To deal with these problems,the Eritrean government,together with the World Food Program,has a new
program that offers food as a reward for learning. In primary schools,all the children receive food packages to
take home to their families.However,with the new program,the girls receive 50 percent more food than the
boys.This way,parents are encouraged to send their daughters to school rather than keeping them at home.
Another government program that aims to educate women is Food for Training. Managed by the National
Union of Eritrean Women,this pro缪m offers food rewards(also from the World Food Organization)to women
and older girls who are willing to join the program.Because of the war with Ethiopia,many women are bring-
ing up their families on their own.They often live in refugee camps,with no land of their own and no way to
earn money. Most of these women are illiterate and have no skills to find a job.They spend most of their day
looking for food and preparing it for their families.
The Food for Training program helps the teenagers and women change their lives.If they agree to join
he program,they receive a large package of food each month.In return,the women are required to attend free
literacy classes for two卜ours every day. When Food for Training started with classes in two regions of Eritrea,
5,000 girls and women joined in the first two months.It is especially popular with teenage girls,aged fourteen
to sixteen,who have never had a chance to go to school before.
The organizers of Food for Training also plan to offer other kinds of courses for women,using the same
system of food rewards.In these courses,they will teach women job skills and crafts,such as basket weaving.
These women will not only learn to read and write,but also become aware of what is going on in their coun-
try，and they will be able to have a voice in their future.The new literacy programs are an example of__________.
A:the work of 5,000 women and teenage girls
B:the problems with international aid organizations
C:local and international organizations working together
D:the Eritrean government working to keep its power答案：C解析：短文第二段第一句提到，是对妇女的传统观点影响了经济的发展，故选C。
从短文第三段中间可知，政府此举在于改变对妇女的传统观念。
从短文第五段第三句可知，只要她们参加免费的识字课就可以领到食物，所以选A。
从短文第三段第一句可知，这一项目是厄立特里亚政府和国际组织合作的结果。因 此，选项C正确。
从短文第五段的第一句可知，该项目旨在改善妇女的生活条件。 -
第21题：
He wants to（）of the fine weather today to play tennis.
- A、take the advantage
- B、take advantage
- C、take an advantage
- D、have advantage
正确答案:B -
第22题：
单选题According to the passage, under the great pressure of life, many women _____.Awill do a part-time job along with the full-time job
Bwould rather stay at home than apply for a part-time position
Cwould be fired if they can not finish the job quickly
Dwill agree to have their working hours shortened if required
正确答案： C解析：
由文章第二段倒数第二句，“thousands of women…work in service-sector jobs”，可知现在的女性会做两份或两份以上的兼职来生存下去。所以，在正常工作之余她们还要去做更多的工作。A选项正是此意。B，C，D选项无关。 -
第23题：
单选题The passage is mainly written to _____.Acall on more women to work outside the home
Bstress the necessity for women to work harder
Cpoint out the problems faced by working women
Danalyze the roles played by professional women
正确答案： D解析：
文章说女性需同时兼顾家庭和职业，面临很多问题。 -
第24题：
填空题The new flexible working time system will enable the (employ) ____ to work more efficiently.正确答案： employees解析：
本题考查名词的用法。句意：新的弹性工作时间体制将会使得员工更高效地工作。定冠词the后面应接名词，同时按照句意，这里表示的是员工，故填入employees，表示“雇员、员工”。