找工作的人数增长缓慢是抑制失业率过高的原因。即02题C选项：找工作的人越来越少。
成千上万的女人做两份甚至更多的兼职，或是同意减少服务业的工作时间。03题A选项是做全职时外加兼职，文章中并没有提到，故选择D选项：同意减少她们的工作时间。
然而这次经济衰退在许多方面与以往一样，比如新的失业人员仍多为周期性产业的蓝领。即04题D选项：体力劳动者仍是经济危机的首要受害者。
毫无疑问，就业和失业的黯淡前景在政治、社会和心理方面都有爆炸性影响。即05题B选项：失业率会引起严重的社会问题。 “When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results,” Calvin Coolidge once observed. As the U. S. economy crumbles, Coolidge’s silly maxim might appear to be as apt as ever: the number of unemployment insurance claims is rising, and overall
joblessness is creeping upward. But in today’s vast and complex labor market, things aren’t always what they seem. More and more people are indeed losing their jobs but not necessarily because the economy appears to be in recession. And old-fashioned unemployment isn’t the inevitable result of job loss. New work, at less pay, often is.
Call it new-wave unemployment: structural changes in the economy are overlapping the business downturn, giving joblessness a grim new twist. Small wonder that the U. S. unemployment rate is rising. Now at 5.7 percent, it is widely expected to edge toward 7 percent by the end of next year. But statistics alone can’t fully capture a complex reality. The unemployment rate has been held down by slow growth in the labor force—the number of people working or looking for work—since few people sense attractive job opportunities in a weak economy. In addition, many more people are losing their jobs than are actually ending up unemployed. Faced with hungry mouths to feed, thousands of women, for example, are taking two or more part-time positions or agreeing to shave the hours they work in service-sector jobs. For better and for worse, work in America clearly isn’t what it used to be. Now unemployment isn’t, either.
Like sour old wine in new bottles, this downturn blends a little of the old and the new reflecting a decade’s worth of change in the dynamic U. S. economy. Yet, in many respects the decline is following the classic pattern, with new layoffs concentrated among blue-collar workers in the most “cyclical” industries, whose ups and downs track the economy most closely.
As the downturn attracts attention on workers’ ill fortunes, some analysts predict that political upheaval may lie ahead. Real wages for the average U. S. worker peaked in 1973 and have been falling almost ever since. As a result, a growing group of downwardly mobile Americans could soon begin pressing policymakers to help produce better-paying jobs．Just how loud the outcry becomes will depend partly on the course of the recession．But in the long run，there’s little doubt that the bleak outlook for jobs and joblessness is “politically, socially and psychologically dynamite”.
Passage B
[题目来源]选自2011年1月23日托福考试阅读，原题为“身体中的荷尔蒙”（HORMONES IN THE BODY）。 [答案详解]CDDDA
荷尔蒙是一个身体组织产生的化学物质，推动体内其他部分的运转。即01题C选项：影响体内各个部分。
某些胰腺直接往血液里分泌荷尔蒙。器官和胰腺的腺外分泌系统在血液之外作用。即02题D选项，是否向血液内分泌化学物质。
荷尔蒙的影响并不明显，但影响深远且难以察觉。它们调节情绪和人的行为，甚至包括某些我们觉得可控的日常行为。即03题D选项：荷尔蒙产生的影响不易度量，但它在很大程度上影响了人的心理和行动。
此句话是荷尔蒙替代疗法（HTR）的目标：荷尔蒙的数量和比例随年龄而变化，因此科学家做了许多研究，来改变内分泌系统，希望可以减轻因年龄增长造成的疾病。即05题A选项。