大学英语四级-89
(总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)
一、Reading Comprehension(总题数：3，分数：100.00)
Last year"s economy in the United States should have won the Oscar for best picture. Growth in gross domestic product was 4.1 percent profits 1 up exports flourished and inflation (通货膨胀) stayed around 3 percent for the third year. So why did so many Americans give the picture only a B rating? The answer is jobs. The macroeconomic (宏观经济的) situation was good, but the microeconomic (微观经济的) numbers were not. Yes, 3 million new jobs were there, but not enough of them were 2 , good jobs paying enough to support a family.
Job insecurity was serious. Even as they 3 higher sales and profits, corporations acted as if they were operating at a 4 , cutting 516,069 jobs in 1994 alone, almost as many as in the bad year of 1991. Yes, unemployment went down. But over 1 million workers were so 5 they left the labor force. More than 6 million who wanted full time work were only partially 6 and anoth
er large group was sheltered behind serf-employment. We lost a million good manufacturing jobs between 1990 and 1995, continuing the 7 that has reduced the blue-collar work force from about 30 percent in the 1950s to about half that today.
White-collar workers found out they were no longer 8 . In 1995, for the first time, they were let go in numbers 9 equal to those for blue-collar workers. Many turn to 10 work—with lower pay, fewer benefits and less status. All this is a country where people meeting for the first time say, "What do you do?"
A. announced B. trend C. performed D. temporary
E. permanent F. virtually G. technical H. employed
I. exposure J. originally K. soared L. significance
M. secure N. discouraged O. loss（分数：30.00）
解析：K[解析] 此处需填不及物动词，可以和up构成词组。上下文都在讲经济发展良好，所以该词应表积极意义，词库中符合条件的词是soared。soared up意为“高涨，剧增”。
解析：E[解析] 此处需要形容词，与good并列修饰jobs。由此可知该词与good一样表积极意
义，可先排除temporary。词库中符合条件的形容词有secure和permanent。secure不能如此搭配，用法不对；permanent较为合适，表明薪水高的、稳定持久的工作。
解析：A[解析] 此处需要及物动词的过去式，作谓语。Even在这里有转折之意，所以根据主句中的谓语动词acted(行动，表现)可知该动词与言语行为有关，由此可知announced一词比较合适，意为“宣布”。
解析：O[解析] 此处需填可数名词，能与at a一起连用。根据句首的Even，可知此处应该与前面的higher sales and profits相反，由此很容易确定loss最为合适。at a loss意为“亏损”。
解析：N[解析] 此空在were后面，且由副词so修饰，所以有两种可能性，一种是形容词，另一种是分词。前文说到失业率下降，此处的形容词是100多万工人自己离职的原因，由此可确定该词表消极意义。词库中的四个形容词都不合适，而动词的过去分词形式中，discouraged符合条件，意为“灰心的，丧气的”。
解析：H[解析] 此空在were后面，且由副词partially修饰，所以为形容词或动词过去分词。上文提到unemployment下降，联系下文提到的self-employment，可知此处指“就业”，由此可确定答案为employed。
解析：B[解析] 此处需填可数名词。根据其后的that定语从句，显然trend最为合适，意为“趋势，势头”。
解析：M[解析] 此处需要形容词或动词过去分词。上下文都在说工作不稳定，所以答案显然是secure(安全的，有安全感的)。
解析：F[解析] 此处需要副，修饰。比较词库中的两个副词virtually和originally，显然virtually比较合适，意思是“实际上，事实上”。
解析：D[解析] 此处需要填入形容词。根据破折号后面对work的解释，可知该词表消极意义。上下文都在说工作不稳定，被裁员，所以可确定答案为temporary(临时的)。
They call them the new bread earners. They are women, and they are set to take over.
Women are beginning to rise 11 to the top in the workplace all over the developed world. New figures show that in almost a third of American 12 with a working wife, the woman brings home more money than her husband and that they now occupy half the country"s "high-paying, executive, administrative and 13 occupations", compared with 34 per cent 20
years ago.
The trend is 14 by two main factors, experts say—a 15 acceptance of men as househusbands and mass unemployment of male white-collar workers from the technology, finance and media industries in the last three years.
The University of Maryland has 16 a report that shows women to be the chief earner in 11 per cent of all US marriages.
Pushing a buggy (婴儿车) on a sunny afternoon in New York"s Central Park last week, Jonathan Blinderman, 33, said, he was 17 he had been able to see every moment of his daughter Lindsay"s first six months of life while his wife, Sage, was out working.
It is a sign of these times of 18 that when he mentions his status at parties he is either praised as a saint or 19 freeloaderas a slave-cure-freeloader (爱占便宜的奴隶). For the revolution is nowhere near complete.
But Maria Cancian, an economist at the University of Wisconsin, said 20 women were increasingly looking for househusbands.
A. caused B. proud C. carelessly D. mocked
E. produced F. managerial G. greedy H. precaution
I. argued J. transition K. ambitious L. tackled
M. growing N. steadily O. households（分数：30.00）
解析：N[解析] 此处需要副词作状语，修饰动词rise。根据其谓语动词are beginning，可知steadily较合适。rise steadily意为“稳步上升”。
解析：O[解析] 此处需要名词作介词of的宾语。根据下文的the woman和her husband，可知答案为households。
解析：F[解析] 此处需要形容词作定语，且与and前面的executive，administrative形成并列关系，因此答案为managerial。managerial occupations意为“经理的职位”。
解析：A[解析] 此处需要动词的过去分词，作谓语的一部分。根据其后的factors(因素)，可得出答案为caused。be caused by two main factors意为“由两个主要因素引起”。
解析：M[解析] 此处需要形容词作定语。前文提到“女性开始在工作场所稳步上升到高层位置”，所以可推断男性逐步接受做家庭主男，因此growing最为合适。a growing acceptance
意为“越来越接受”。
解析：E[解析] 此处需要及物动词的过去分词。文章前面已经指出女性是新的bread earner，本句提到有报告进一步证实，因此可知produced显然更合适。produced a report意为“拿出报告”。
解析：B[解析] 此处需要积极意义的形容词作表语。本句是家庭主男的一个例子，根据上下文语义的逻辑性，可知答案为proud。
解析：J[解析] 此处需要名词作介词of的宾语。根据上下文语义搭配，可知transition正确。times of transition意为“过渡时期”
解析：D[解析] 此处需要动词的过去分词，和praised并列作谓语的一部分，而且两者是反义关系。mocked显然最合适。
解析：K[解析] 此处需要形容词作定语，修饰主语women。根据下文“寻家庭主男”，可知这个形容词是肯定意义的，所以选用ambitious。ambitions women意为“有抱负的女性”。

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