阅读理解 Virtually all American workers are suffering as a result of the current eco

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Virtually all American workers are suffering as a result of the current economic crisis. Hardest hit of all according to official statistics, are black workers and their families. The recently released (发布) official Bureau of Labor Statistics (统计数字) (BLS) figures show unemployment for March to be 8 million, or 8.7 percent overall with 8 percent for whites and 14.2 percent for blacks. The figures for teenagers are 20.6 percent overall with 41.6 percent for black youths.

The BLS lists as employed the 3.9 million part-time workers, most of whom need and want full-time jobs. About half of these involuntary (非本意的) part-timers are blacks. The BLS does not count the millions of teenagers who have never had a job and have not registered (登记) for work. Many have looked for jobs without success. Others just don't look, knowing full well that there are no jobs available, let alone decent(体面的) jobs.

Surprisingly, the majority of both white and black unemployed workers are not eligible (合格的) for unemplayment benefits: 3.2 million out of the official 5.6 million unemployed during the last quarter of 1974 were ineligible. Fifty-seven percent of the blacks who lest their jobs during that quarter were ineligible for benefits. This figure was over 20 percent higher than the percentage for white workers.

What's happened in this period to small black business? Frequently lacking cash reserves, credit and management know- how and facing diminishing (逐渐缩小的) markets amidst (在…当中) soaring black unemployment, many black-owned businesses are being rocked especially hard by the economic ill winds. The majority of the 195,000 black 7 owned businesses, 94 percent of which are in dividudly owned and rim, are in real trouble. Eighty-five percent had gross (总的) annual receipts (收入)of less than $ 13,000 and less than 20 percent had any paid employees. It has been reported that 18 percent of black husinesses failed in 1974, compared to the less than one percent failes of white-owned businesses.

1．The official BLS figures show that ________.

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A．there are more unemployed teenagers than grown-ups

B．the percentage of unemployed blacks is higher than that of the white

C．most of the part-time workers lost their jobs

D．most of the unemployed are able to get the social benefits for the unemployment

2．The word “soaring” (in Line 4, para. 4) most probably means ________.

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A．severeB．pitifulC．miserableD．increasing

3．What is most striking in the details about the unemployed?

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A．Many teenagers can not find jobs.

B．The percentage of the unemployed is rising.

C．More blacks are suffering from the unemployment.

D．Most of the unemployed can not get the unemployment benefits.

4．Which of the following statements is NOT the result of the current economic crisis?

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A．The percentage of the unemployed blacks is higher than that of the whites.

B．Most of the unemployed workers can not get unemployment benefits.

C．Many black-owned-and-run businesses failed.

D．Many part-time workers can not find a full-time job.

5．From the passage we can infer that the author's attitude to the blacks is ________.

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A．indifferentB．surprisedC．miserableD．sympathetic

试题答案

答案：B;D;C;B;D