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阅读理解 Dear editor, I appreciate your comments about age discrimination and suppor

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阅读理解 Dear editor, I appreciate your comments about age discrimination and suppor

阅读理解

Dear editor,

I appreciate your comments about age discrimination and support them completely.At age 65 I work and teach at a large Beijing university which hired me after some concern about my age.

I teach subjects in which my many years of experience are very useful.I teach Managerial Economics, Business Analysis, Intellectual Property Law and Business English.

As a teacher, I am much more valuable to my students because of my many years of experience as a lawyer and as a businessman.

During a recent visit to Hong Kong, I was impressed by posters in the subway system which said “Consider experience not age when hiring”.

As you knew and pointed out in your article, experience is not something which can be acquired without years of life.

As a lawyer in the United States for many years, I know that laws against employment discrimination do not fix the problems but at least they indicate that government is opposed to such discrimination.

Recently Beijing was host to a number of Nobel laureates.Not a single one of them was under the age of 60.

Some have said that youth is “wasted” on the young.Experience should not be wasted simply because it is something that the old have and the young do not.

Jim Gaylord, Beijing

(1)

What kind of programs has the writer watched before he writes the letter?

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A.

A program which disagrees to the age discrimination.

B.

A program which agrees to the age discrimination.

C.

A program which supports the age discrimination.

D.

A program which values the age discrimination.

(2)

In the writer’s opinion, ________ is the most important factor when hunting for jobs.

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A.

age

B.

experience

C.

ability

D.

healthy

(3)

Which of the following is true about the writer according to the letter?

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A.

He is against the government’s opinion about job discrimination.

B.

Before he works as a teacher he worked as a lawyer and businessman in China.

C.

He knows that government’s efforts alone can’t solve the problem of employment discrimination.

D.

The university which hired him didn’t consider his age at all.

(4)

Which of the following words can take the place of the word “laureates”?

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A.

Winners.

B.

Makers.

C.

Designers.

D.

Announcers.

试题答案

答案:1.A;2.B;3.C;4.A;

解析:

解答此题我们可以采用排除法,A项根据“他支持节目观点”可以排除,B项根据他是在美国做律师和商人这个信息排除,而D项实际上也与文意不符,因为在给他工作之前该大学也担心他的年龄问题。

提示:

(1)

推理判断题。根据作者的意思可知,这个节目是反对年龄歧视的,所以他持支持态度。

(2)

细节理解题。作者认为经验是非常重要的,比年龄更加重要。

(4)

词义推测题。根据上下文语境可知这里画线单词应该是“获得者”的意思,也就是winner的同义词。