Directions: This part consists of a short
passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered
line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the
mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word,
cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a
word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in
the blank. If you delete a word, cross it and put a slash (/) in the blank.
Last year’s economy should have won the Oscar for the best
picture. Growth in gross domestic product was 4.1 percents; profits
soared; exports flourished; and
62.______ inflation stayed around 3 percent for the third
year. Though why so many Americans give the picture a lousy
63.______ rating The answer is jobs. The macroeconomic
situation was good, and the microeconomic numbers were not.
64.______ Yes, 3 million new jobs were there, but
not enough of them were temporary, good jobs paying enough to
65.______ support a family. Job security was
rampant (猖獗的). 66.______ Even as they
announced higher sales and profits, corporations acted as if they were in a
tailspin, cutting 516,069 jobs in 1994 alone, almost as much as in the
67.______ recession year of 1991.
Yet, unemployment went down. But over 1 million workers were so
encouraged that they left the labor
68.______ force. More than 6 million who wanted full-time job were only
partially employed; and another large group was either unqualified or
sheltered behind the euphemism of self-employment. We lost a million good
manufacturing jobs between 1990 and 1995, continuing the trend has
69.______ reduced the blue-collar work force from
about 30 percent in the 1950s to about half that today. White-collar
workers found out they are no longer immune. For the fast time,
70.______ they are let go in numbers virtually equal to those
for blue-collar workers. Many resorted to temporary work with lower pay,
fewer benefits but less status.
71.______ All that in a country where
people meet for the first time would say, “What do you do”