填空题

In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time，you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally，when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
The social effects of job-sharing are likely to be beneficial, since it attempts to match work opportunities to a wider variety of lifestyles. The (36) of one full-time and one part-time spouse might become much more common：which was the husband and which was the wife would (37) according to taste，time of life and career requirements.
What exactly is job-sharing The Equal Opportunities Commission (38) it as“a form of part-time employment where two people (39) share the responsibility of one full-time position. ”Salary and benefits are (40) between the two sharers. Each person’s terms and conditions of employment are the same as those of a full-timer. If each works at least 15 hours a week, then they enjoy certain (41) rights that ordinary part-time workers do not have.
Part-timers usually earn less per hour than a full-timer, and have fewer benefits and less job (42) . They have virtually no career prospects. Employers often think that working part-time (43) that a person has no ambitions and so offer no chance of promotion.
(44) and that does not mean just married women. As Adrienne Broyle of“New Ways to Work”—formerly the London Job-sharing Project points out：“ (45) ”.
“A growing number of men want to job-share so that they can play an active role in bringing up their children. It allows people to study at home in their free time， (46) . Job-sharing is also an ideal way for people to ease into retirement”.