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郑州大学

Opinion polls are now beginning to show an unwilling general agreement that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to stay. This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the employment more widely.But we need to go further. We must ask some questions about the future of work. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm? Should we not rather encourage many other 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 make the household and the neighborhood, as well as the factory and the office, centres of production and work?The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people's 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 brought may have to be reversed. This seems a daunting thought, but, in fact, it could offer a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom.Employment became widespread when the enclosure of the 17th and 18th centuries made many 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 people’s homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people travelled longer distances to their places of employment until, in the end, many people’s work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they lived.Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. It became customary for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and family to his wife.All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away from the impractical goal of creating jobs for all to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.1. What is the main idea of the passage?2. Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a factor contributing to the spread of employment?3. It can be inferred from the passage that （）.4. What does the word “daunting” in the third paragraph mean?5. Which of the following is NOT suggested as a possible means to cope with the current situation?

The chairperson of a woman’s club being addressed by Adlai Stevenson during his campaign indulged in a lengthy introduction full of （） remarks.

Because of her dual nationality in the United States and Mexico, Maria was almost required to pay taxes in both countries until her accountant （） with a satisfactory solution for both countries.

Every （） of a motion picture is the responsibility of the director.

After the concert, the clean-up crew found the ground （） with papers, bottles and cans.

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