填空题

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”