时事英语02-7全真试题及标答(2)

高级时事英语期末试题

Task 2. Questions 8-14. Listen again to the recording and choose the best answer among the choices given. It is advisable to look through the questions before you begin to listen so that you know what you are listening for.

8. Jenny has been reading about ____

a) an unemployed teacher.

b) an unemployed doctor.

c) an unemployed economist.

9. The teacher was in Beijing ____

a) to get a residence permit.

b) on a training course.

c) to do some private teaching.

10. The teacher's wife ____

a) is in Beijing.

b) is in Heilongjiang.

c) is in Newcastle.

11. The teacher is ____

a) one of many people laid off.

b) the only professional person to lose his job.

c) able to get some private teaching.

12. Economic change leads to unemployment ____

a) only in China.

b) only in state-owned enterprises.

c) across the world.

13. Down sizing is ____

a) a Western term for laying off workers.

b) a Western term for moving firms further down the river.

c) both a) and b.