2006年江苏全省经济保持稳定较快增长。初步核算，全年实现地区生产总值21548.36亿元，比上年增长14.9%。其中，第一产业产值1544.90亿元，增长5.0%；第二产业产值12186.46亿元，增长16.0%；第三产业产值7817.00亿元，增长15.5%。人均生产总值28685元，按当年汇率折算达3598美元。经济结构调整和增长方式转变取得新进展。三次产业产值比例为7.2：56.5：36.3。高新技术产业产值10370亿元，占规模以上工业的比重达24.9%，比上年提高0.7个百分点。服务业（包括农林牧渔服务业）实现产值7894.52亿元，比上年增长15.4%，占生产总值的比重为36.6%，提高0.个百分点。所有制结构中，非公有制经济产值在生产总值中的份额达60.9%，其中私营个体经济比重为35%，分别提高1.4个和0.8个百分点。年末全省城市化水平达51.9%，提高1.4个百分点。产业布局调整取得新进展，沿沪宁线、沿江、沿东陇海线和沿海产业带发展态势良好。苏北、苏中一些主要经济指标的增幅高于全省平均水平。

2006年江苏省规模以上工业的产值约为（）。

A．38569亿元

B．3.92万亿元

C．40563亿元

D．4.16万亿元

In the following passage, there are 25 blanks representing words that are missing from the context. You are to put back in each of the blanks the missing word. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. The time for this section is 25 minutes.
Of all the employed workers in the United States, 12.5 million are part of a temporary workforce. The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics counts 9.2 percent of workers as those who have (1) they term "alternative employment arrangements." The government predicts that temporary staffing agencies (2) experience growth of 49 percent by 2010. If numbers increase at the rate (3) , these companies will add 1.9 million new jobs by 2010. That’s more than any (4) industry.
Temporary workers were the first ones to be affected by the recent economic recession, but they are (5) to be the first to regain positions as the economy picks up and companies work to rebuild. Employers use temporary workers as a resource because (6) offer
flexibility and come at a low cost. Many temporaries are categorized as "independent contractors" instead of employees, (7) allows the employer to avoid (8) certain taxes. Because they are not required to offer benefits to temporary workers, companies can save a great deal of money by hiring temps. Usually, temporary workers can qualify (9) benefits if they work for a staffing company for a certain length of time. Most temps, however, do not continue with one company long (10) to qualify for them because they regard the position as a step on the ladder to a (11) position later.
According to Richard Wahlquist, president of the American Staffing Association, 75 (12) of temporary workers hope for transition out of the temporary staffing category (13) a period of time. Wahlquist finds that temporary workers spend about 11 weeks on various assignments before their (14) out of the temporary workforce. Many use temporary positions to gain experience and skills (15) they move on to better jobs. Wahquist says that the temp workforce as a whole turns (16) 400 percent each year.
Tom Dilworth, research director at the Employment Policies Institute, explains (17) some workers like having temporary jobs (18) it affords them a great deal of elasticity with time and everything. Some temps only have a limited (19) of time to work and temp agencies can help coordinate jobs to fit their schedules. Other sometimes-employees use temporary jobs to get an (20) to a company from the inside, to get a foot in the door of a certain business or career. (21) others take temporary positions in hopes their employers will change them over to permanent positions eventually.
Nearly all the industries in the United States use temporary workers. (22) to Tim Costello, coordinator of the North American Alliance for Fair Employment, the growth of temporary labor threatens (23) job security of permanent workers who fear replacement,as well as the temps who are more accustomed to turnover. He predicts that there will continueto (24) a gradual shift from permanent employees to contingent staffing, and that such a (25) in workplace demographics will "lead to lower wages, poorer working conditions, and more instability."