请认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意:每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。 任务型阅读11 请认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意:每个空格只填1个单词。 Made In The USA: An Export Boom In his State of the Union address two years ago, President Obama argued that in order to recover from the economic recession, one of the few things the U.S. needed to do was to export more goods around the world. That night, the president unveiled a new goal: to double U.S. exports over the next five years. It would be an increase that the president said would “support two million jobs in America.” Most economists dismissed the promise at the time as something unrealistic, but two years later, the U.S. is on pace to meet that goal. American exports are up 34 percent since the president gave that speech, and the number continues to rise. Competitive In A Global Market Marlin Steel, a metal working business in Baltimore, makes parts that ship all across the world. “We export to 36 countries,” owner Drew Greenblatt tells All Things Considered Host Guy Raz.“We're working around the clock, and we're growing.” It's not just advanced manufacturing exports on the rise, but pork, cattle and all kinds of agricultural exports are up as well. Even American craft beer has found an export market. Flying Dog CEO Jim Caruso says that increasingly, people all over the world are trying the beer from the Maryland-based brewery. Caruso says,“Even in those top beer-producing countries, a competitive American product is finding a market.” Services Are Exports, Too Another place exports are coming from is New York City—in particular, the 30th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper on 5th Avenue and 52nd Street. That's where the consulting firm Kurt Solomon lies. It doesn't actually produce a product for export; it provides management advice and strategy. “Four out of every five Americans is now employed in the service industry,” the nation's top trade official, Ron Kirk says, “Services are a significant part of our exports, and make up about a quarter of our exported goods.” These services can include everything from legal consulting, finance, information technology and even engineering. And There Are Other Factors So why has there been an increase of more than 30 percent for exports in almost everything? Part of the increase, at least for the manufacturing side, is due to better technology, says Tyler Cowen, an economist. “A lot of it is being driven by smart machines,” he tells Raz,“The U.S. has high wage rates, which is a disadvantage, but if machines are doing a lot of the work, that doesn't matter.” China factors a lot in America's export economy, too.“Wages in China have been going up as the country becomes more productive. Thus China is losing the cheap labor advantage it has held for some time.” Cowen says. Will Jobs Grow, too? “Companies have become more productive by dismissing workers and lowering costs.”Cowen says.“So I don't view exporting as a way of creating a very large number of jobs, but it will create more profits.” So not every business or worker is necessarily benefiting from the export boom in the U.S., and Cowen says that could ultimately lead to a polarization(两极) of economic outcomes. Made In the USA: An Export Boom
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小题1:recovery
小题2:employment
小题3:by
小题4:benefit
小题5:Factors
小题6:Competitive
小题7:located/based
小题8:accounting
小题9:Machines
小题10:advantage
题目分析:本文叙述了美国在经济的萧条期,美国总统却大胆地提出一定要推动经济的发展,走出经济的萧条期,在各行各业的共同努力下,经济发展了,出口额增加了,就业率提高了,但是有人认为这也可能会导致经济的两极化发展。
小题1:根据argued that in order to recover from the economic recession, recover市动词;recovery是名词,放在冠词之后。make a recovery from=" recover" from.
小题2:根据It would be an increase that the president said would “support two million jobs in America.提供更多的就业机会,就是提高就业率raise employment rate,故用employment.
小题3:根据American exports are up 34 percent since the president gave that speech, and the number continues to rise. rise by增长了,故用by.
小题4:根据not every business or worker is necessarily benefiting from the export boom in the U.S.;benefit sth/sb使某人或某物受益,故用benefit.
小题5:根据And There Are Other Factors可以推知用Factors.
小题6:根据a competitive American product is finding a market ;Competitive竞争的。故用Competitive.
小题7:根据the beer from the Maryland-based brewery;可知 located/based位于。
小题8:根据Services are a significant part of our exports, and make up about a quarter of our exported goods.accounting for 与make up占,同义词组,故用accounting.
小题9:根据if machines are doing a lot of the work, that doesn't matter;用机器代替人做,故用 Machines.
小题10:根据China is losing the cheap labor advantage ;take advantage of利用,是固定短语,故用advantage.
点评:任务型阅读这是阅读理解题和书面表达题的结合,试题的考查考生在限定的时间内能否在认真阅读所给的短文的基础上,对短文中的有效信息进行提炼、整合、综合概括,最终根据表格设计要求,在每个空格里填写一个恰当的单词。该题型从不同角度测试了考生的综合语言运用能力。