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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Part I Writing.Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Civil Servant Test Craze. Your essay should start with a brief description of the picture. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Part III Reading Comprehensio

2、n (40 minutes)回答36-45题：Women with low literacy suffer disproportionately more than men, encountering more 36_ in finding a well-paying job and being twice as likely to end up in the group of lowest wage earners, a study released on Wednesday said.Analysis by the Institute for Womens Policy Research

3、(IWPR. found women at all levels of 37_ tend to earn less than men, but its at the lowest literacy levels that the wage gap between genders is most striking.Women with low literacy are twice as 38_ as men at the same skill level to be among the lowest earners, bringing in $300 a week or less, the re

4、port said.Because women start off so low in terms of wages, having higher literacy and more skills really 39_ a big difference, said Kevin Miller, a 40_ research associate at IWPR and co-author of the study.Women need to go 41_ in their training and education level to earn the same as men, Miller sa

5、id.The 42_ was based on 2009 National Assessment of Adult Literacy surveys, the most recent data 43_ , and focused on reading skills, not writing and numeric literacy. That data was 44_ from a nationally representative sample of 19,714 people aged 16 and older, living in households or prisons.Data s

6、howed about one-third of American adults have low literacy levels, and more than 36 percent of men and 33 percent of women fall into that 45_ , the institute said.A. patternB. seniorC. longerD. difficultiesE. categoryF. collectedG. positionsH. availableI. conductedJ. independentK. literacyL. analysi

7、sM. likelyN. furtherO. makesSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than

8、once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.回答46-55题：A) The legislation concerning financial reform focuses on helping regulators detect and defuse (减少.的危险性) the next crisis. But it doesnt address many of the underlying con

9、ditions that can cause problems.B) The legislation gives regulators the power to oversee shadow banks and take failing firms apart, convenes a council of superregulators to watch the megafirms that pose a risk to the full financialsystem, and much else.C) But the bill does more to help regulators de

10、tect the next financial crisis than to actually stop it from happening.In that way, its like the difference between improving public health and improving medicine: The bill focuses on helping the doctors who figure out when youre sick and how to get you better rather than on the conditions (sewer sy

11、stems and air quality and hygiene standards and so on) that contribute to whether you get sick in the first place.D) That is to say, many of the weaknesses and imbalances that led to the financial crisis will survive our regulatory response, and its important to keep that in mind. So here are five w

12、e still have to watch out for:1. The Global Glut (供过于求) of SavingsE) One of the leading indicators of a financial crisis is when you have a sustained surge in money flowing into the country which makes borrowing cheaper and easier, says Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff. Our crisis was no different:

13、Between 1987 and 1999, our current account deficit-the measure of how much money is coming in versus going out-fluctuated between 1 and 2 percent of gross domestic product. By 2006, it had hit 6 percent.F) The sharp rise was driven by emerging economies with lots of growth and few investment opportu

14、nities-think China-funneling their money to developed economies with less growth and lots of investment opportunities. But weve gotten out of the crisis without fixing it. China is still growing fast, exporting faster, and sending the money over to US.2. Household Debt-and Why We Need ItG) The fact

15、that money is available to borrow doesnt explain why Americans borrowed so much of it. Household debt as a percentage of GDP went from a bit less than 60 percent at the beginning of the 1990s to a bit less than 100 percent in 2006. This is where I come to income inequality, says Raghuram Rajan, an e

16、conomist at the University of Chicago. A large part of the population saw relatively stagnant incomes over the 1980s and 1990s. Credit was so welcome because it kept people who were falling behind reasonably happy. You were keeping up, even if your income wasnt.H) Incomes, of course, are even more s

17、tagnant now that unemployment is at 9 percent. And that pain isnt being shared equally: inequality has actually risen since before the recession, as joblessness is proving sticky among the poor, but recovery has been swift for the rich. Household borrowing is still more than 90 percent of GDP, and t

18、he conditions that drove it up there are, if anything, worse.3. The Shadow Banking MarketI) The financial crisis started out similarly severe, but it wasnt, at first, a crisis of consumers. It was a crisis of banks. It never became a crisis of consumers because consumer deposits are insured. But lar

19、ge investors-pension funds, banks, corporations, and others-arent insured. But when they hear that their collateral ( 附属担保品 ) is dropping in value, they demand their money back. And when everyone does that at once, its like an old-fashioned bank run: The banks cant pay everyone off at once, so they

20、unload all their assets to get capital, the assets become worthless because everyone is trying to unload them, and the banks collapse.J) This is an inherent problem of privately created money, says Gary Gorton, an economist at Princeton University. It is vulnerable to these kinds of runs. This year,

21、 were bringing this shadow banking system under the control of regulators and giving them all sorts of information on it and power over it, but were not doing anything like deposit insurance, where we simply make the deposits safe so runs become an anachronism.4. Rich BanksK) In the 1980s, the finan

22、cial sectors share of total corporate profits ranged from about 10 to 20 percent. By 2004, it was about 35 percent. Simon Johnson, an economist at MIT, recalls a conversation he had with a fund manager. The guy said to me, Simon, its so little money! You can sway senators for $10 million!?Johnson la

23、ughs ruefully (后悔地). These guys big investors dont even think in millions. They think in billions.L) What you get for that money is favors. The last financial crisis fades from memory and the public begins to focus on other things. Then the finance guys begin nudging (游说). They hold some fundraisers

24、 for politicians, make some friends, explain how the regulations theyre under are onerous and unfair. And slowly, surely, those regulations come undone. This financial crisis will stick in our minds for a while, but not forever. And after briefly dropping to less than 15 percent of corporate profits

25、, the financial sector has rebounded to more than 30 percent. Theyll have plenty of money with which to help their friends forget this whole nasty affair.5. Lax ( 不严格的) RegulatorsM ) The most troubling prospect is the chance that this bill, if wed passed it in 2000, wouldnt even have prevented this

26、financial crisis. Thats not to undersell it: It wouldve given regulators more information with which to predict the crisis. But they had enough information, and they ignored it. They get caught up in boom times just like everyone else. A bubble, almost by definition, affects the regulators with the

27、power to pop it.N) In 2005, with housing prices running far, far ahead of the historical trend, Bemanke said a housing bubble was a pretty unlikely possibility. In 2007, he said Fed officials do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy. Alan Greenspan, lo

28、oking back at the financial crisis, admitted in April that regulators have had a woeful record of chronic failure. History tells us they cannot identify the timing of a crisis, or anticipate exactly where it will be located or how large the losses and spillovers will be.46、In the 1980s and 1990s peo

29、ple experienced no substantial increase in terms of income, which brought about the popularity of credit.47、Financial crisis is a crisis of banks in that shadow banking may cause banks to fail.48、The finance guys make friends with politicians in the hope of making some burdensome and unfair regulati

30、ons cancelled.49、The legislation concerning financial reform offers regulators the power of supervising shadow banks and disintegrating companies on the verge of bankruptcy.50、In terms of the effect of unemployment, it is more deeply felt by the poor than by the rich.51、Even if there was enough info

31、rmation to predict there would be financial crisis, the regulators still chose to ignore it.52、Emerging economies with insufficient investment opportunities have invested much money in developed countries.53、Regulators with power tended to fail again and again concerning forecasting a financial cris

32、is.54、A fund manager or large investor is considered absurdly rich by an economist from MIT.55、Large investors deposits can be made safer if shadow banking system is under the control of regulators.Section CDirections:There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions o

33、r unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D ). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.回答56-60题：Opinion polls are now beginning to show a reluctant consensus that, whoe

34、ver is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to stay. This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the available employment more widely. But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the furore of work. Should we continue to treat

35、 employment as the norm? Should we not rather encourage many other ways for self-respecting people to work? Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer7 Should we not aim to revive the household and the neighborhood, as well as the factory

36、and the office, as centers of production and work?The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most peoples work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed. Thi

37、s seems a daunting thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom.Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by dep

38、riving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from peoples homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by mad, people commuted longer distances to their places of

39、 employment until, eventually, many peoples work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they lived.Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In pre-industrial times, men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community. Now it became

40、 customary for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and the family to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations still assume this norm today, and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between the sexes.It was not only women whose work status suffered. As e

41、mployment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were excluded-a problem now, as more teenagers become frustrated at school and more retired people want to live active lives.All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away f

42、rom the utopian goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full- time jobs.56、According to the author, the universal employment has _.A.turned out not to be the best form of jobsB.created an alternative form of jobsC.built the foundation of a

43、n economic leapD.failed to produce job opportunities for most people57、Modem forms of transportation have greatly encouraged_.A.the phenomenon of deprivation of employees leisure timeB.the disconnection between peoples work and their family lifeC.the commutation between the working places and employ

44、ees homesD.peoples desire to work far away from where they were born58、It can be inferred from the passage that _.A.women could have been more productive than men in a proper job systemB.work in pre-industrial times has been distriibuted evenly between men and womenC.paid employment has aroused seri

45、ous social problems in current societyD.women have been treated unfairly under the employment system of industrial age59、What is the problem for the young under the employment system?A.They are less likely to compete with the aged.B.They are much worried about the generation gap.C.They are more like

46、ly to suffer from unemployment.D.Their academic performances seem useless for job hunting.60、What is the possible change of job forms?A.Full-time employment will not be the dominant form of work.B.Most people can work at home and for themselves.C.The differences between men and women will disappear.

47、D.All people get equal job opportunities and equal pay.回答61-65题：Blood vessels running all through the lungs carry blood to each air sac (囊), or alveolus(肺泡), and then back again to the heart. Only the thin wall of the air sac and the thin wall of a capillary (毛细血管) are between the air and the blood.

48、 So oxygen easily diffuses from the air sacs through the walls into the blood, while carbon dioxide easily diffuses from the blood through the walls into the air sacs.When blood is sent to the lungs by the heart, it has come back from the cells in the rest of the body. So the blood that goes into the wall of an air sac con