Unit 2 Jobs and Careers

Building Your Vocabulary 十选一

1、填空题:
genuine  identify  likely  characteristic   reflect‌recruit  competitive  confirm  prospect  consequence‌​There is a scar on the criminal’s face, so it’s not hard to ____ him.‌
答案: 【 identify

2、填空题:
genuine  identify  likely  characteristic   reflect‍recruit  competitive  confirm  prospect  consequence‍‌Don’t count on Mr. Wilson. He isn’t ____ to agree to take the position.‍
答案: 【 likely

3、填空题:
genuine  identify  likely  characteristic   reflect‏recruit  competitive  confirm  prospect  consequence‏​What are the ____ that distinguish yours from other universities?‏
答案: 【 characteristics

4、填空题:
genuine  identify  likely  characteristic   reflect‎‎recruit  competitive  confirm  prospect  consequence‎His speech won him a ____ round of applause from the audience.‎
答案: 【 genuine

5、填空题:
genuine  identify  likely  characteristic   reflect‌recruit  competitive  confirm  prospect  consequence‌‍After a two-month internship, Mary was ____ in a position in this company.‌
答案: 【 confirmed

6、填空题:
genuine  identify  likely  characteristic   reflect‏recruit  competitive  confirm  prospect  consequence‏The ____ for young people in this job are excellent although the starting salary is not satisfactory.‏
答案: 【 prospects

7、填空题:
genuine  identify  likely  characteristic   reflect‌​recruit  competitive  confirm  prospect  consequence‌Many workers in the country have been laid off as a ____  of the financial crisis and economic downturn.‌
答案: 【 consequence

8、填空题:
genuine  identify  likely  characteristic   reflect‌recruit  competitive  confirm  prospect  consequence‌It’s reported that the company will  ____ all its new employees from college graduates next year.‌
答案: 【 recruit

9、填空题:
genuine  identify  likely  characteristic   reflect‌recruit  competitive  confirm  prospect  consequence‌‍Many export-oriented industries have lost their ____ edge because of the high exchange rate. ‌
答案: 【 competitive

10、填空题:
annual     version     financial   entry  refugee​publication  detailed  full-time click  spot​‍He has a strong sense of responsibility, which ____ in his devotion to work.​
答案: 【 is reflected

Self-assessment Test

1、单选题:
‌Section B‎‌Directions: In this part there is a passage 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.‎‌‎Across the rich world, well-educated people increasingly work longer than the less-skilled. Some 65% of American men aged 62-74 with a professional degree are in the workforce, compared with 32% of men with only a high-school certificate. This gap is part of a deepening divide between the well-educated well-off and the unskilled poor. Rapid technological advance has raised the incomes of the highly skilled while squeezing those of the unskilled. The consequences, for individuals and society, are profound.‎The world is facing an astonishing rise in the number of old people, and they will live longer than ever before. Over the next 20 years the global population of those aged 65 or more will almost double, from 600 million to 1.1 billion. The experience of the 20th century, when greater longevity (长寿) translated into more years in retirement rather than more years at work, has persuaded many observers that this shift will lead to slower economic growth, while the swelling ranks of pensioners will create government budget problems.‎But the notion of a sharp division between the working young and the idle old misses a new trend, the growing gap between the skilled and the unskilled people, whereas older skilled folk are working longer. The divide is most extreme in America, where well-educated baby-boomers (二战后生育高峰期出生的美国人) are putting off retirement while many less-skilled younger people have dropped out of the workforce.‎Policy is partly responsible. Many European governments have abandoned policies that used to encourage people to retire early. Rising life expectancy (预期寿命), combined with the replacement of generous defined-benefit pension plans with less generous defined-contribution ones, means that even the better-off must work longer to have a comfortable retirement. But the changing nature of work also plays a big role. Pay has risen sharply for the highly educated, and those people continue to reap rich rewards into old age because these days the educated elderly are more productive than the preceding generation. Technological change may well reinforce that shift: the skills that complement computers, from management knowhow to creativity, do not necessarily decline with age.‎‎‌11. What is happening in the workforce in rich countries?‎

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