5.According to the article, which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Women are more assertive than men at work.. B. Men are more assertive(自信)than women at work. C. Men have traditionally been raised to assume more responsibility than women have. D. Men feel more compelled than women to advance.

4.Why was Anthony Shee, a flight attendant with US Air Inc., mistaken for a pilot?

A.Because men in women dominated fields sometimes find themselves mistaken for higher status professionals.

B. Because he told people he was a pilot instead of a flight attendant. C. Because he wants to be a pilot. D. Because he always wore a pilot’s uniform.

3.David Anderson says _________.

A. men make better secretaries than women do B. he received encouragement and acceptance from the women secretaries C. he encountered some discrimination and ridicule when he was working as a secretary D. men can do well in a female-dominated field?

2.The second paragraph suggests that _________.

A. young people have more rigid ideas about male or female work than their parents do B. both young people and parents have more rigid ideas about male or female work than their parents do C. parents have less rigid ideas about male or female work than their children do D. young people have less rigid ideas about male or female work than their parents do

1. "… Old is suddenly in" (Line 1, Para. 1) most probably means "______". 　A) America has suddenly become a nation of old people 　B) gerontology has suddenly become popular 　C) more elderly professors are found on American campuses 　D) American colleges have realized the need of enrolling older students 　2. With the aging of America, lawyers can benefit ______. 　A) from the adoption of the "elder law" 　B) from rendering special services to the elderly 　C) by enriching their professional knowledge 　D) by winning the trust of the elderly to promote their own interests 　3. Why can businessmen make money in the emerging elder market? 　A) Retirees are more generous in spending money. 　B) They can employ more gerontologists. 　C) The elderly possess an enormous purchasing power. 　D) There are more elderly people working than before. 　4. Who can make big money in the new century according to the passage? 　A) Retirees who are business-minded. 　B) The volunteer workers in retirement homes. 　C) College graduates with an MBA or law degree. 　D) Professionals with a good knowledge of gerontology. 　5. It can be seen from the passage that the expansion of America's elderly population ________. 　A) will provide good job opportunities in many areas 　B) will impose an unbearable burden on society 　C) may lead to nursing home abuse and age discrimination 　D) will create new fields of study in universities

Passage 7

For one thing, tightness in the job market seems to have given men an additional motive to take jobs where they can find them. Although female dominated office and service jobs for the most part rank lower in pay and status, “they’re still there,” says June O’Neill, director of program and policy research at the institute. Traditionally male blue collar jobs, meanwhile, “aren’t increasing at all.”

At the same time, she says, “The outlooks of young people are different.” Younger men with less rigid views on what compose male or female work “may not feel there’s such a stigma(侮辱)to work in a female dominated field.”

Although views have softened, men who cross the sexual segregation(隔离)line in the job market may still face discrimination and ridicule(嘲笑). David Anderson, a 36-year-old former high school teacher, says he found secretarial work “a way out of teaching and into the business world.” He had applied for work at 23 employment agencies for “management training jobs that didn’t exist,” and he discovered that “the best skill I had was being able to type 70 words a minute.”

He took a job as a secretary to the marketing director of a New York publishing company. But he says he could feel a lot of people wondering what I was doing there and if something was wrong with me.

Mr. Anderson’s boss was a woman. When she asked him to fetch coffee, he says, “the other secretaries’ eyebrows went up.” Sales manager who came in to see his boss, he says, “couldn’t quite believe that I could and would type, take dictation, and answer the phones.”

Males sometimes find themselves mistaken for higher status professionals. Anthony Shee, a flight attendant with US Air Inc., has been mistaken for a pilot. Mr. Anderson, the secretary, says he found himself being “treated in executive tones whenever I wore a suit.”

In fact, the men in traditional female jobs often move up the ladder fast. Mr. Anderson actually worked only seven months as a secretary. Then he got a higher-level, better-paying job as a placement counselor at an employment agency. “I got a lot of encouragement to advance,” he says, “including job tips from male executives who couldn’t quite see me staying a secretary.”

Experts say, for example, that while men make up only a small fraction of elementary school teachers, a disproportionate(不成比例)number of elementary principals are men. Barbara Bergmann, an economist at the University of Maryland who has studied sex segregation at work, believes that’s partly because of “sexism in the occupational structure” and partly because men have been raised to assert themselves and to assume responsibility. Men may also feel more compelled than women to advance, she suspects(猜想). 1.According to the passage, which statement is NOT true?

A. Men have taken jobs in female?ominated careers because these jobs were available. B. Physical labor jobs were not increasing. C. Men have taken jobs in female-dominated careers because these jobs pay more. D. Although the jobs in female-dominated careers pay lower, men still take them.

5. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

　　 A) Businessmen absorbed in their career are narrow-minded.

　　 B) Managers often find it hard to tell right from wrong.

　　 C) People engaged in technical jobs lead a more rewarding life.

D) Career seekers should not focus on immediate interests only.

Passage 6 　

For an increasing number of students at American universities, Old is suddenly in. The reason is obvious: the graying of America means jobs. Coupled with the aging of the baby-boom ( 生育高峰) generation, a longer life span means that the nation's elderly population is bound to expand significantly over the next 50 years. By 2050, 25 percent of all Americans will be older than 65, up from 14 percent in 1995. The change poses profound questions for government and society, of course. But it also creates career opportunities in medicine and health professions, and in law and business as well. "In addition to the doctors, we're going to need more sociologists, biologists, urban planners and specialized lawyers," says Professor Edward Schneider of the University of Southern California's (USC) School of Gerontology (老年学). 　Lawyers can specialize in "elder law," which covers everything from trusts and estates to nursing-home abuse and age discrimination (歧视). Businessmen see huge opportunities in the elder market because the baby boomers, 74 million strong, are likely to be the wealthiest group of retirees in human history. "Any student who combines an expert knowledge in gerontology with, say, an MBA or law degree will have a license to print money," one professor says. 　Margarite Santos is a 21-year-old senior at USC. She began college as a biology major but found she was "really bored with bacteria." So she took a class in gerontology and discovered that she liked it. She says, "I did volunteer work in retirement homes and it was very satisfying."　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

4. Studying the diverse wisdom of others can __________.

　　 A) create varying artistic interests

　　 B) help people see things in their right perspective

　 　C) help improve connections among people

　　 D) regulate the behavior of modern people

3. By saying “While it's true that…be they scientific or artistic” (Lines 1-3, Pars. 5), the author means that __________.

A) business management should be included in educational programs

B) human wisdom has accumulated at an extraordinarily high speed

C) human intellectual development has reached new heights

D) the importance of a broad education should not be overlooked

2. The students' criteria for selecting majors today have much to do with __________.

　 A) the influences of their instructors　 B) the financial goals they seek in life

　 C) their own interpretations of the courses D) their understanding of the contributions of others

1. According to the author's observation, college students __________.

　 A) have never been so materialistic as today

　 B) have never been so interested in the arts

　 C) have never been so financially well off as today

　 D) have never attached so much importance to moral sense