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1、Unit 12You cannot burn the candle at both ends.蜡烛不能两头点，精力不可过分耗学习内容题 材词 数建议时间得分统计做题备忘Part AText 1商业经济445/10Text 2文化教育471/10Text 3科普知识397/10Text 4社会生活400/10Part B社会生活598/10Part C科普知识381/10Part ADirections：Read the following texts. Answer the questions blow each text by choosing A,B,C or D.Text 1Opinio
2、n polls are now beginning to show that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to say. This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the available employment more widely.But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the f
3、uture work. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm? Should we not rather encourage many ways for self-respecting people to work? Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer? Should we not aim to revive the household and the neig
4、hborhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centers of production and work? The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most peoples work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it br
5、ought may have to be reversed. This seems a daunting thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospects of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom. Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many
6、people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from peoples homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people commute
7、d longer distances to their places of employment until, eventually, many peoples work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they live.Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In pre-industrial times, men and women had shared the productive work of the household
8、and village community. Now it became customary for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and families to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations still assume this norm today, and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between the sexes.It was not only wome
9、n whose work status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were excludeda problem now, as more teenagers become frustrated at school and more retired people want to live active lives.All this may now have to change.The time has certainly come to switch
10、some effort and resources away from the idealist goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs. 1. Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of the text?A Employment became widespread in the 17th and 18th centuries.B Un
11、employment will remain a major problem for industrialized nations.C The industrial age may now be coming to an end.D Efforts and resources should be devoted to helping people to take other forms of work.2. According to the author, what should we do to cope with high unemployment?A Create situation i
12、n which people work for themselves.B Continue to treat employment as the norm.C Endeavor to revive the factory and the office as centers of production.D Encourage people to work in normal working conditions.3. The word “daunting”(Line 3,Para. 3) most probably meansA shocking. B interesting.C confusi
13、ng. D stimulating.4. Which of the followings is a factor contributing to the spread of employment?A The enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries.B The development of work patterns.C Relief from housework on the part of women.D The development of economic freedom.5. What can be inferred from the tex
14、t?A Most people polled believe that we should pay attention to the high unemployment. B Many farmers lost their land when new facilities were being constructed.C In pre-industrial societies, housework was mainly carried out by women.D Some of the changes in work pattern have been reversed.Text 2Gett
15、ing ready to go back to school in the good old days of, say, 1997 meant a few trips to the mall and the stationery aisle and a quick check of the bus route. This year, for many parents, there are some new things to remember: The teachers e-mail address, the schools website and which night online homework-help chat will be offered. “The 1999-2000 school year will be the one where the majority of parents really feel the Internets influence on their childrens education at the everyday level,” says Jonathan Carson, chairman and CEO of the Family Education Co., which of
