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Nanning: With the number of college graduates climbing to a record high this year—some 2. 12 million are entering the job market, an increase of 670 000, or 46. 2 percent, over last year, many people are asking if China’s first “McDonald’s generation”, born in the early 1980s, can stand the intense competition and find a place in the job market. They say this will be a test of both China’s job market and its carefree younger generation.

“Do not worry. We’ll get whatever we want, ”they tell each other to ease their own anxiety.

Born in the early days of the country’s reform and opening to the outside world, growing up in the market economy, the youngsters, familiar with McDonald’s and Mickey Mouse, love to eat hamburgers, and wear foreign brand jeans and T-shirts and worship Bill Gates. Compared with their parents, they enjoy more freedom in looking for a job—and with that freedom come burdens.

These college graduates are seen scouring recruitment information in newspapers and journals, the Internet and job markets nationwide.

Shortly after hotel management major Hao Wenhua, a young woman from Chongqing in Southwest China, failed the recruitment test of a five-star hotel in Guilin, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. She appeared at a job market in Nanning, approximately 300 kilometers from Guilin, looking rather tired.

Many businesses and companies say that they would take on experienced staff rather than the new graduates who are short of the experience of how to succeed in today’s fastpaced society.

1. Which of the following groups of people belongs to China’s first McDonald’s generation?

A. People who were born in the early days of China’s reform and opening to the outside world.

B. People who like to eat hamburgers and wear foreign brand clothes.

C. People who admire Bill Gates.

D. People who lack the experience of how to succeed in today’s fast changing world.

2. Which of the following explanation is closest in meaning with the underlined word “scouring”in the passage?

A. Studying.   　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　    B. Going through.

C. Collecting.　　   　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　   D. Copying.

3. What can we infer from the story of Hao Wenhua in the passage?  We can infer______.

A. that there are many chances to find jobs in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

B. that hotel management is not a good major in college

C. that there is intense competition in the job market

D. that many businesses and companies don’t like new college graduates

4. What is the best title for the passage?

A. Fierce competition in the job market

B. McDonald’s generation has grown up

C. McDonald’s generation faces job hunt

D. The number of college graduates climbs to the highest point

 

Answer 1

答案：1A2B3C4C
提示：

1题从文章第一段来看，出生在八十年代，正处改革开放时期的人们属于China’s first McDonald’s generation，故1题选A。 2题scouring的意思是“急速走遍”, 故2题选B项。 3题属于推断题，必须是文章中暗含且没有明确表达出来的意思，符合该要求的只有C项。4题属于文章主旨题，C项概括了本文的主要意思。