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专业英语四级（完形填空）模拟试卷142

(题后含答案及解析)

题型有： 3. CLOZE

PART III CLOZE (15 MIN)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the

following passage. Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the

passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.

“Young people ought not to be idle. It is very bad for them,” said Margaret

Thatcher many years ago. She was right: there are few worse things (1)_____ society

can do to its young(2)_____ to leave them in uncertainty. Those who start their

(3)_____ on the unemployment pension are more likely to have lower wages and

more spells of joblessness(4)_____ in life,(5)_____ they lose out on the chance

to(6)_____ skills and self-confidence in their formative years. (7)_____ more

young people are idle than ever. (8)_____ how you measure them, the number of

young people without a job is nearly as large as the population of America. Two

factors(9)_____ a big part. First, the long slowdown in the West has

reduced(10)_____ for labour, and it is easier to (11)_____ hiring young people than it

is to fire older workers. Second, in emerging economies population growth is fastest

in countries with dysfunctional(失调的)labour markets,(12)_____ India and Egypt.

The most obvious way to(13)_____ this problem is to reignite growth. That is easier

said than done in a world plagued by debt, and is anyway only a(14)_____ answer.

The countries where the problem is worst suffered from high youth

unemployment(15)_____ their economies were growing.(16)_____ the recession

companies have continued to complain that they cannot find young people with the

right skills. This(17)_____ the importance of two other(18)______: reforming labour

markets and improving education. These are (19)_____ prescriptions, but ones that

need to be (20)_____ with both a new vigour and a new twist.

1． (1)

A．what

B．that

C．when

D．how

正确答案：B

解析：空格后的society can do to its young是修饰things的定语从句，由先行词things以及引导词在从句中作宾语．可选出that。 知识模块：完形

2． (2)

A．than

B．which