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1、2022年考博英语-外交学院考前提分综合测验卷（附带答案及详解）1. 单选题You cant help but hear commercials; every few minutes the program is interrupted to give you one advertising（ ）.问题1选项A.so on and so forthB.more or lessC.something or otherD.sooner or later【答案】C【解析】考查短语辨析。A选项so on and so forth“等等”；B选项more or less“或多或少”；C选项somethi
2、ng or other“什么的（表示模糊概念），常用于口语”；D选项sooner or later“迟早”。句意：你不由得去听一些广告，因为每隔几分钟节目就会被打断，给你一个广告什么的。C选项符合句意，因此C选项正确。2. 单选题Thomas Jeffersons achievements as an architect rival his contributions（ ）a politician.问题1选项A.suchB.thanC.asD.more【答案】C【解析】考查固定句式。Asas“与一样”。句意：托马斯杰斐逊作为建筑师的成就与他作为政治家的贡献不相上下。因此C选项正确。3. 单选题
3、How many really suffer as a result of labor market problems? This is one of the most critical yet contentious social policy questions. In many ways, our social statistics exaggerate the degree of hardship. Unemployment does not have the same dire consequences today as it did in the 1930s when most o
4、f the unemployed were primary breadwinners, when income and earnings were usually much closer to the margin of subsistence, and when there were no countervailing social programs for those failing in the labor market. Increasing affluence, the rise of families with more than one wage earner, the grow
5、ing predominance of secondary earners among the unemployed, and improved social welfare protection have unquestionably mitigated the consequences of joblessness. Earnings and income data also overstate the dimensions of hardship. Among the millions with hourly earnings at or below the minimum wage l
6、evel, the overwhelming majority are from multiple-earner, relatively affluent families. Most of those counted by the poverty statistics are elderly or handicapped or have family responsibilities which keep them out of the labor force, so the poverty statistics are by no means an accurate indicator o
7、f labor market pathologies.Yet there are also many ways our social statistics underestimate the degree of labor-market-related hardship. The unemployment counts exclude the millions of fully employed workers whose wages are so low that their families remain in poverty. Low wages and repeated or prol
8、onged unemployment frequently interact to undermine the capacity for self-support. Since the number experiencing joblessness at some time during the year is several times the number unemployed in any month, those who suffer as a result of forced idleness can equal or exceed average annual unemployme
9、nt, even though only a minority of the jobless in any month really suffer. For every person counted in the monthly unemployment tallies, there is another working part-time because of the inability to find full-time work or else outside the labor force but wanting a job. Finally, income transfers in
10、our country have always focused on the elderly, disabled, and dependent, neglecting the needs of the working poor, so that the dramatic expansion of cash and in-kind transfers does not necessarily mean that those failing in the labor market are adequately protected.As a result of such contradictory
11、evidence, it is uncertain whether those suffering seriously as a result of labor market problems number in the hundreds of thousands or the tens of millions, and, hence, whether high levels of joblessness can be tolerated or must be countered by job creation and economic stimulus. There is only one
12、area of agreement in this debatethat the existing poverty, employment, and earnings statistics are inadequate for their primary applications, measuring the consequences of labor market problems.1. Which of the following is the principal topic of the passage?2. The author contrasts the 1930s with the
13、 present in order to show that（ ）.3. Which of the following proposals best responds to the issues raised by the author?4. According to the passage, one factor that causes unemployment and earnings figures to over-predict the amount of economic hardship is the（ ）.5. Which of the following, if true, i
14、s the best criticism of the authors argument concerning why poverty statistics cannot properly be used to show the effects of problems in the labor market?问题1选项A.What causes labor market pathologies that result in suffering.B.Why income measures are imprecise in measuring degrees of poverty.C.How so
15、cial statistics give an unclear picture/of the degree of hardship caused by low wages and insufficient employment opportunities.D.Which of the currently used statistical procedures are the best for estimating the incidence of hardship that is due to unemployment.问题2选项A.unemployment now has less seve
16、re effectsB.more people were unemployed in the 1930sC.poverty has increased since the 1930sD.social programs are more needed now问题3选项A.New statistical indices should be developed to measure the degree to which unemployment and inadequately paid employment cause suffering.B.Consideration should be given to the wa
