29. ______________________
正确答案： H
30. ______________________
正确答案： K
Section B
Directions: There are several passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice.
Passage One
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Job sharing refers to the situation in which two people divide the responsibility of one full-time job. The two people willingly act as part-time workers, enough hours between them to fulfill the duties of a full-time worker. If they each work half the job, for example, they each receive 50 percent of the job’s wages, its holidays and its other benefits. Of course, some job sharers take a smaller or larger share of the responsibilities of the position, receiving a lesser or greater share of the benefits.
Job sharing differs from conventional part-time work in that it occurs mainly in the more highly skilled and professional areas, which require higher levels of responsibility and employee commitment. Job sharing should not be confused with the term work sharing, which refers to increasing the number of jobs by reducing the number of hours of each existing job, thus offering more positions to the growing number of unemployed people. Job sharing, by contrast, is not designed to address unemployment problems; its focus, rather, is to provide well-paid work for skilled workers and professionals who want more free time for other activities. As would be expected, women constitute the bulk of job sharers. A survey carded out in 1988 by Britain’s Equal Opportunities Commission revealed that 78 per cent of sharers were female, the majority of whom were between 20 and 40 years of age. Subsequent studies have come up with similar results. Many of these women were re-entering the job market after having had children, but they chose not to seek part-time work because it would have meant lower status.
Job sharing also offered an acceptable shift back into full-time work after a long absence. The necessity of close cooperation when sharing a job with another person makes the actual work quite different from conventional one-position jobs. However, to ensure a greater chance that the partnership will succeed, each person needs to know the strengths, weaknesses and preferences of his or her partner before applying for a position. Moreover, there must be a
fair division of both routine tasks and interesting ones. In sum, for a position to be job-shared well, the two individuals must be well matched and must treat each other as equals.
31.
“Employee commitment” in Paragraph 2 refers to the employee’s ________. A) loyalty
B) qualification C) devotion D) technique
正确答案： A 32.
Work sharing is different from job sharing in that __________. A) it requires more working hours
B) it doesn’t matter with the unemployment problems C) it creates more job opportunities for the unemployed D) it offers a more satisfactory salary
正确答案： C 33.
Job sharing is popular with young mothers mainly because _________. A) they can take care of both work and family B) they are over ideal working ages
C) they seek equal opportunities with men D) they have difficulty finding full-time jobs
正确答案： A 34.
In job sharing the partners should __________. A) be social equals
B) know each other very well C) be intimate friends
D) have similar working experience
正确答案： B 35.
The main purpose of the passage is to ___________.
A) distinguish between job sharing and work sharing B) describe job sharing in general C) criticize job sharing as inefficient
D) discuss a way to tackle unemployment
正确答案： B
Passage Two
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths. At the top of the list is the notion that intelligence is measured by your ability to solve complex problems; to read, write and compute at certain levels; and to resolve abstract equations quickly. This vision of intelligence asserts formal education and bookish excellence as the true measures of self fulfillment. It encourages a kind of intellectual prejudice that has brought with it some discouraging results. We have come to believe that someone who has more educational merit badges, who is very good at some form of school discipline is “intelligent.” Yet mental hospitals are filled with patients who have all of the properly lettered certificates. A truer indicator of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of every day.
If you are happy, if you live each moment for everything it’s worth, then you are an intelligent person. Problem solving is a useful help to your happiness, but if you know that given your inability to resolve a particular concern you can still choose happiness for yourself, or at a minimum refuse to choose unhappiness, then you are intelligent. You are intelligent because you have the ultimate weapon against the big N.B.D. — Nervous Break Down.
Intelligent people do not have N.B.D.s because they are in charge of themselves. They know how to choose happiness over depression, because they know how to deal with the problems of their lives.
You can begin to think of yourself as truly intelligent on the basis of how you choose to feel in the face of trying circumstances. The life struggles are pretty much the same for each of us. Everyone who is involved with other human beings in any social context has similar difficulties. Disagreements, conflicts and compromises are a part of what it means to be human. Similarly, money, growing old, sickness, deaths, natural disasters and accidents are all events which present problems to virtually all human beings. But some people are able to make it, to avoid immobilizing depression and unhappiness despite such occurrences, while others collapse or have an N.B.D. Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don’t measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rare.
36.
According to the author, the conventional notion of intelligence measured in terms of one’s ability to read, write and compute ________.
A) is a widely accepted but wrong concept B) will help erase intellectual prejudice C) derives from all mental distress
D) will contribute to one’s self accomplishment
正确答案： A 37.
We can infer from the passage that holding a university degree ________. A) may result in one’s inability to solve complex real life problems B) does not indicate one’s ability to write properly worded documents C) may make one mentally sick and physically weak D) does not mean that one is highly intelligent
正确答案： D 38.
The author thinks that an intelligent person knows ________. A) how to put up with some prevalent myths B) how to find the best way to achieve success C) how to obtain happiness and reject unhappiness D) how to persuade others to compromise
正确答案： C 39.
In the last paragraph, the author tells us that ________. A) difficulties are but a part of everyone’s life
B) difficulties in life are the root causes of depression and unhappiness C) everybody should learn to avoid trying circumstances
D) good feelings can contribute to eventual academic excellence
正确答案： A 40.
According to the passage, what kind of people are scarce?
A) Those who don’t emphasize bookish excellence in their pursuit of happiness. B) Those who are aware of difficulties in life but know how to avoid unhappiness.
C) Those who measure happiness by an absence of problems but seldom suffer from N.B.Ds. D) Those who are able to secure happiness though having to struggle against trying circumstances.
正确答案： B
Part III Vocabulary and Structure ( 10 minutes )
Directions: There are a number of incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence.
41.
I got a/an ________ with the company. A) interviewing B) interviewer C) interview D) interviewee
正确答案： C 42.
He was healthy ________ and mentally. A) physically B) bodily C) spiritually D) physical
正确答案： A 43.
When his ______ employers learned that he smoked, they said they wouldn’t hire him. A) respective B) retrospective C) prospective D) executive
正确答案： C 44.
Learning to do routine car maintenance oneself is often easier ________ competent people to do it.
A) than finding B) as finding