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考研英语（阅读）-试卷27
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2. Reading Comprehension
Section II Reading Comprehension
路寻Part ADirections: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D.
As college niors hurtle into the job hunt, little lies on the resume—for example, claiming a degree when they"re three credits shy of graduation—em harmless enough. So new grads ought to read this memo now: tho 20-year-old falhoods on cream-colored, 32-lb. premium paper have ruined so many high-profile executives that you wonder who in the business world hasn"t got sume listing two fabricated degrees led to the resignation of David Edmondson, CEO of RadioShack, in February. Untruthful resume have also hindered the careers of executives at the U.S. Olympic Committee. The headlines ha
ven"t dented job ekers" desire to dismble even as employers have grown increasingly able to detect deception. InfoLink Screening Services, a background-**pany, estimates that 14% of job applicants in the U.S. lie about their education on their resumes. Employees who lie to get in the door can cau untold damage on a business, experts say, from staining the reputation and credibility of a firm to upending co-workers and projects to igniting shareholder wrath—and that"s if the he is found out. Even when it isn"t, the falsified resume can indicate a deeply rooted inclination toward unethical behavior. "There"s a lot of evidence that tho who cheat on job applications also cheat in school and in life," says Richard Griffith, director of the industrial and organizational psychology program at the Florida Institute of Technology. "If someone says they have a degree and they don"t, I"d have little faith that person would tell the truth when it came to financial statements and so on." Employers" fears have sparked a boom in the background-screening industry. But guarding the henhou does little good if the fox is already nestled inside. To unmask the deceivers among them, some employers are conducting checks upon promotion. Verified Person markets its ability to provide ong
08年汶川地震oing employee screening through automated criminal checks. With this incread **es a thorny new dilemma; figuring out whether every lie is really a fireable offen. Many boss feel that a worker"s track record on the job speaks more strongly than a stretched resume, says John Challenger of the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Rather than booting talented workers, Challenger suggests, employers should offer a pardon period "A moratorium would let anyone who needs to come clean," he says And the culprit could always go back to school and finish that degree—maybe even on company time.
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1. By citing the examples of David Edmondson, the author intends to show that_____.夜游三亚湾
A. little lies on the resume em risk-free to **pany
B. falhoods on the resume may lead to career collap
C. high-profile executives have to be careful about their background
D. fabricated degrees can sometimes bring positions to nior executives
2. By saying "The headlines haven"t dented job ekers" desire to dismble" (Para. 2), the author means that _____.
A. the news hasn"t prevented job applicants from being dishonest
B. the headings have made job ekers more eager to hide their true feelings
C. the news hasn"t any kind of impacts on job applicants at all
D. the headings have succeeded in persuading job ekers to give up lying
3. If a lie is found out, one conquence will probably be _____.
A. the incread number of laid-off coworkers
B. the interference of stakeholders
C. the possibility of more unethical behaviors
D. the ruined image of **pany
4. Falhood on resume shows that the job eker may _____.安全知识问答
A. have extreme views towards working
B. be more likely to cheat in other fields
C. stay honest in financial statements
D. ek other ways to convey the truth
5. According to Challenger, when the boss screen out deceivers in **panies, they tend to_____.
A. fire them immediately without listening to any excus
B. evaluate their personality again through background-screening
C. give them a period of time to make a remedy
D. offer all talented employees the opportunities to finish degree
After clashes between riot police and protesters, workers at the Keihin Hotel in Tokyo were forcibly ejected on January 25th. They had been fired in October when the hotel went bankrupt, but decided to keep it running—an example of the lengths to which people will go to keep their jobs in Japan, where unemployment is suddenly rising at an alarming rate. Over 150,000 people are expect-ed to lo their jobs between October and March. Hisashi Yamada of the Japan Rearch Institute expects 1.5 million job loss by the end of next year, lifting the unemployment rate from 4% last year to over 6%. Though low by international standards, yet that is exceptionally high in Japan. Hardest hit will be "non-regular" workers—tho who work part-time, as day-laborers, for a fixed duration, or under agency contracts. "Regular" workers enjoy benefits such as housing, bonus, training and (usually) lifetime employment, but non-regular workers earn as little as 40% of the pay for the same work, and do not receive training, pensions or unemployment insurance. In the past 20 years their numbers have grown to one-third of all workers. For years most Japane ignored their predicament. But now their problems have erupted into plain sight. In January around 500 recently fired, homeless p
eople t up a tent village in Hibiya Park—a highly visible spot in the centre of Tokyo. Politicians and television news crews flocked to the scene. The embarrasd city government eventually found accommodation for the park"s homeless in unud city-owned buildings, though it put them up for only a week. The problem is that Japan lacks a social safety net, says Makoto Yuasa, the organizer of the Hibiya tent village, who dropped out of a PhD program at Tokyo University to help homeless people. Becau families or companies traditionally looked after people, the state did not have to. Moreover, there is a stigma in Japan if an unemployed person asks for help: "If you don"t work, you don"t derve to eat", the saying goes. Yet there are signs of change. The main political parties recognize the need to establish better support and training for non-regular workers. And there is even a new government program to help unemployed foreign workers, such as Brazilians who worked at car factories, so that they do not leave Japan if they are laid off. With a shrinking population and workforce, losing skilled hands would **pound the country"s woes when the economy eventually recovers.
6. We can infer from the event of Keihin Hotel in Japan that _____.
A. workers would try every means to keep their jobs
B. the protesters are fired becau of veral conflicts
C. the hotel has to be shut down to avoid further clashes
D. unemployed workers cau instability in the society
7. The main difference between regular workers and non-regular workers lies in ____ .
A. working environment B. legal status
C. job benefits D. labor intensity
8. The word "predicament" (Para. 3) most probably means_____.
A. plight B. inferiority大脚越野车
C. poverty D. miry
9. The text suggests that tent village in Hibiya Park has_____.
A. shown most laid-off workers in Tokyo were homeless
B. helped 500 homeless or jobless people to find a living place
C. changed the traditional view of working in Japan
D. pushed the city government to address the social curity problem
农村种植项目10. Which of the following is true according to the text?
A. The unemployment rate in Japan is relatively **pared with other nations.
B. The prent unemployment rate in Japan is among the highest in its history.
C. The government has not yet recognized the need to help non-regular workers.
D. The government is reluctant to take measures to keep the technical workers.
The realization that colds can kill has renewed interest in finding vaccines and treatments. The trouble is that **mon cold is caud not by one virus but by hundreds of
different ones. This means a vaccine or drug that works against one of the virus, or one family of virus, is usually ineffective against all the others. What"s more, becau colds are usually so mild, if treatmentscau even minor side effects they can be wor than the dia. Such treatments will never get approval for general u, which is why **panies instead focus on drugs that relieve symptoms. Nevertheless, some drugs and vaccines are being developed against the cold virus most likely to turn nasty.A vaccine against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), a virus which can cau rious illness in young children and the elderly, is going through clinical trials. It consists of a weakened strain of the virus given as a nasal spray. A treatment for RSV infections, bad on RNA interference, is also in development. However, treatments for specific virus are uless unless your cold is caud by the virus in question—and doctors have no quick way to work out which virus is to blame for a cold. Systems to do this are under development, mostly bad on looking for specific DNA or RNA quences, but none are near to reaching the market. An alternative approach would be to keep taking drugs that prevent infection throughout the cold ason, such as a derivative of the anti-smallpox dr
ug cidofovir which has been shown to combat adenovirus, virus that can cau upper respiratory infections. But again, as adenovirus are only responsible for a few percent of colds, the benefits hardly justify the expen and risk of side effects from remaining on a drug permanently. Short of everyone on the planet isolating themlves for two or three weeks, so existing cold virus run out of hosts and die out, it is hard to e how we can ever defeat **mon cold. Even then, new cold virus would evolve in time from animal virus. Some even question whether it is desirable to try to eliminate colds. "It"s blind speculation," says Joel Weinstock of Tufts University in Boston in the US, "but **mon cold may protect us from more rious virus." An occasional sniffle might be a price worth paying if it keeps our immune defens primed.
