【正文】 ___. the percentage of the bluecollar work force blue – collar jobs for international petition motor – can manufacturing in Henry Ford’s style the problem of unemployment politicians and labor leaders tend to dislike_____. in manufacturing economy increase in blue – collar work force petition in manufacturing production drop in the blue – collar job opportunities word ―prescription‖ in ―a prescription for unemployment‖ may be the equivalent to ______ remended as medical treatment way suggested to overe some difficulty measures taken in advance device to dire passage may have been excepted from ________ magazine about capital investment article on automation motorcar magazine article on global economy 第 41篇答案： AADCD 第 42篇： (Unit 11,Passage 2) What does the future hold for the problem of housing? A good deal depends, of course, on the meaning of “ future” . If one is thinking in terms of science fiction and the space age, it is at least possible to assume that man will have solved such trivial and earthly problems as housing. Writers of science fiction, from . Wells onwards, have had little to say on the subject. They have conveyed the suggestion that men will live in great fort, with every conceivable apparatus to make life smooth, healthy and easy, if not happy. But they have not said what his house will be made of. Perhaps some new building material, as yet unimagined, will have been discovered or invented at least. One may be certain that bricks and mortar(泥灰，灰漿 ) will long have gone out of fashion. But the problems of the next generation or two can more readily be imagined. Scientists have already pointed out that unless something is done either to restrict the world’s rapid growth in population or to discover and develop new sources of food (or both), millions of people will be dying of starvation or at the best suffering from underfeeding before this century is out. But nobody has yet worked out any plan for housing these growing populations. Admittedly the worst situations will occur in the hottest parts of the world, where housing can be light structure or in backward areas where standards are traditionally low. But even the minimum shelter requires materials of some kind and in the teeming, bulging towns the lowstandard ―housing‖ of flattened petrol cans and dirty canvas is far more wasteful of ground space than can be tolerated. Since the war, Hong Kong has suffered the kind of crisis which is likely to arise in many other places during the next generation. Literally millions of refugees arrived to swell the already growing population and emergency steps had to be taken rapidly to prevent squalor（骯臟） and disease and the spread crime. The city is tackling the situation energetically and enormous blocks of tenements（貧民住宅） are rising at an astonishing aped. But Hong Kong is only one small part of what will certainly bee a vast problem and not merely a housing problem, because when population grows at this rate there are acpanying problems of education, transport, hospital services, drainage, water supply and so on. Not every area may give the same resources as Hong Kong to draw upon and the search for quicker and cheaper methods of construction must never cease. is the author’s opinion of housing problems in the first paragraph? may be pletely solved at sometime in the future. are unimportant and easily dealt with. will not be solved until a new building material has been discovered. have been dealt with in specific detail in books describing the future. writer is sure that in the distant future ___. and mortar will be replaced by some other building material. new building material will have been invented. and mortar will not be used by people who want their house to be fashionable. new way of using bricks and mortar will have been discovered. writer believes that the biggest problem likely to confront the world before the end of the century ___. difficult to foresee. be how to feed the ever growing population. be how to provide enough houses in the hottest parts of the world. the question of finding enough ground space. the writer says that the worst situations will occur in the hottest parts of the world or in backward areas, he is referring to the fact that in these parts ___. of building are low. minimum shelter will be possible. is not enough ground space. population growth will be the greatest. of the following sentences best summarizes Paragraph 3? Kong has faced a serious crisis caused by millions of refugees. Kong has successfully dealt with the emergency caused by millions of refugees. Kong’s crisis was not only a matter of housing but included a number of other problems of population growth. parts of the world may have to face the kind of problems encountered by Hong Kong and may find it much harder to deal with them. 第四十二篇答案： AABDD 第四十三篇： (Unit 11, Passage 3) It is a curious paradox that we think of the physical sciences as ―hard‖, the social sciences as ―soft,‖ and the biological sciences as somewhere in between. This is interpreted to mean that our knowledge of physical system is more certain than our knowledge of biological systems, and these in turn are more certain than our knowledge of social systems. In terms of our capacity of sample the relevant universes, however, and the probability that our images of these universes are at least approximately correct, one suspects that a reverse order is more reasonable. We are able to sample earth’s social systems with some degree of confidence that we have a reasonable sample of the total universe being investigated. Our knowledge of social systems, therefore, while it is in many ways extremely inaccurate, is not likely to be seriously overturned by new discoveries. Even the folk knowledge in social s