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     Last Friday a storm swept through two villages in the New Territories, destroying fourteen homes.

Seven others were so badly damaged (破坏) that their owners had to leave them, and fifteen others

had broken windows or broken roofs. One person was killed, several were badly hurt and taken to

hospital, and a number of other people received smaller hurt. Altogether (总共) over two hundred

people were homeless after the storm.

      A farmer, Mr. Tan, said that the storm began early in the morning and lasted for over an hour.

     "I was eating with my wife and children," he said, "when we heard a loud noise. A few minutes later

our house fell down on top of us. We tried our best to climb out but then I saw that one of my children

was missing. I went back inside and found him, safe but very frightened."

     Mrs. Woo Mei Fong said that her husband had just left for work when she felt that her house was

moving. She ran outside at once with her children.

     "There was no time to take anything," she said, "A few minutes later, the roof came down."

     Soldiers helped to take people out of the flooded (水淹的) area and the welfare department (福利

机构) brought them food, clothes and shelter.

1. How many homes altogether were damaged in the storm?

A. Fourteen.

B. Twenty-one.

C. Twenty-nine.

D. Thirty-six.

2. Where was Mr. Tan when the storm first began?

A. He was in bed.                                  

B. He was inside the house.

C. He was outside the house.                

D. He was on the roof.

3. Mrs. Woo and her family didn't get hurt because ________.

A. her husband knew there would be a storm

B. they were all outside the house when the storm became worse

C. she felt the house moving and they ran out immediately

D. the welfare department helped her

4. The underlined word "shelter" in the last paragraph means ________.

A. something to eat

B. something to wear

C. somewhere to study

D. somewhere to stay

5. Which of the following may be the best title for this passage?

A. A Terrible Storm

B. A Lucky Woman

C. Good Soldiers

D. Clever People

答案

1-5   DBCDA

多项选择题

收入分配中的“控高”就要借鉴西方国家的做法，（），使高收入阶层的不合理收入得到有效遏制。

A.加快实行遗产税

B.加快实行赠与税

C.改革和完善个人所得税制度

D.加快实行累进税
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单项选择题

As summer rolls around, lawmakers in Washington are preparing to vote on a jobs bill that would include $1 billion for summer jobs for teens. Much of the urgency for the program stems from the private-sector plunge in summer jobs for teenagers over the past few years. It’s no secret that the recession walloped teens’ jobs as much as it did their parents. But some economists find the clamor for public jobs programs a little ironic, given last year’s midrecession minimum wage increase, which may have reduced teen employment even beyond the recessionary drop.

Before the minimum wage jumped to $ 7.25 an hour last summer, University of California-Irvine economist David Neumark estimated that it would lead to an additional 300 000 job losses for teens and young adults. The 2009 wage increase was set in motion in a better labor market in May 2007, when Congress voted to boost the minimum from $ 5.15 an hour to $ 7.25 an hour over the course of the next two years.

It’s hard to parse the jobs lost because of the recession and those lost because of the minimum wage increase--there’s no direct evaluation of the impact of the wage increase yet--but it’s likely that raising the wage floor contributed to the record-high teen unemployment rates, Neumark says. "Almost everyone accepts that minimum wages decrease employment or likely increase unemployment of the least-skilled," he says. Neumark advocated for delaying last year’s increase.

The unemployment rate for teenagers was 25.4 percent in April, compared with 9.9 percent overall, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Teens generally have higher unemployment rates. In November 2007, the month before the start of the recession, the unemployment rate for the overall population was 4. 7 percent, versus 16. 2 percent for workers aged 16 to 19. Teen employment has been declining for some time. The percentage of teens with jobs has fallen from about 57 percent in 1989 to about 40 percent in 2007 (both dates reflect healthy economies). The reasons are diverse. For one thing, increased school enrollment appears to account for about a third of that decline, according to the Economic Policy Institute. "For teens, there has been a remarkable long-term shift from summer employment to summer enrollment," reports EPI economist Heidi Shierholz.

One of the critical issues for job-seeking teens is the changing face of the competition, which is increasingly skilled. "Not only are they competing with each other for available positions, but they are competing with recent college graduates and job seekers who have two or more years of on-the-job experience and are willing to take almost any position that provides a steady paycheck," says John Challenger of outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

What is the main idea of the text（）

A. Economic recession would lead to an additional job losses

B. Washington votes on a jobs bill for increasing teenagers’ summer jobs

C. The increase in teen unemployment rates is attributed to the combination of the recession and other factors

D. Raising the wage floor contributed to the high teen unemployment rates
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