2016年南京一模、盐城一模英语试题及答案(5)

Her first book, War’s Unwomanly Face, came out in 1985. It was repeatedly reprinted and sold more than two million copies. The book was finished in 1983 and published (in short edition) in Oktyabr, a Soviet monthly literary magazine, in February 1984. In 1985, the book was published by several publishers, and the number of printed copies reached 2,000,000 in the next five years. This novel is made up of monologues (独白) of women in the war speaking about the aspects of World War II that had never been related before. Another book, The Last Witnesses: the Book of Unchildlike Stories, describes personal memories of children during war time. The war seen through women’s and children’s eyes revealed a new world of feelings. In 1993, she published Enchanted with Death, a book about attempted and completed suicides due to the downfall of the Soviet Union. Many people felt inseparable from the Communist ideology and unable to accept the new order surely and the newly interpreted history.
Her books were not published by Belarusian state-owned publishing houses after 1993, while private publishers in Belarus have only published two of her books: Voices from Chernobyl in 1999 and Second-hand Time in 2013, both translated into Belarusian. As a result, Alexievich has been better known in the rest of world than in Belarus.
66. According to the passage, Alexievich was able to win the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature mainly because ________.
A. she is superior to other writers in literature
B. she is the greatest journalist all over the world
C. she witnessed the most dramatic events in Belarus
D. her works reflected the suffering and courage in her time
67. Who played a significant role in Alexievich’s literary world?
A. Ales Adamovich and Vasil Bykaŭ. B. Dmitry Bykov and Ales Adamovich.
C. Uladzimir Kalesnik and Janka Bryl.   D. Vasil Bykaŭ and Uladzimir Nyaklyayew.
68. Which of the following is TRUE about Alexievich’s first book?
A. It was not until 5 years later that the book was well received.
B. It is written from the viewpoint of women and children involved in the war.
C. It was first published by Belarusian state-owned publishing houses in 1984.
D. It reveals something unknown about World War II to the public.
69. What can we know from the theme of Alexievich’s works?
A. She discusses who is to blame for the wars in her works.
B. She takes a practical view of the future for her motherland.
C. Her works show sorrow and sympathy for war victims and her country.
D. Her works merely focused on the disasters the Belarusian experienced.
70. What can be inferred from the passage?
A. Some people were dependent on the Soviet Union with affection.
B. Women and children are the main characters of Alexievich’s works.
C. Voices from Chernobyl published in 1999 was written in Belarusian.
D. Alexievich has been highly respected by the Lukashenko administration.
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The recession (经济衰退) of 2008-09 was remarkable in rich countries for its intensity, the subsequent recovery for its weakness. The labour market has also broken the rules, as new research from the OECD, shows in its annual Employment Outlook.
Young people always suffer in recessions. Employers stop hiring them; and they often get rid of new employees because they are easier to sack. But in previous periods, such as the recessions of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, older workers were also dismissed. This time is different. During the financial crisis in 2008, and since, they have done better than other age groups.
The researchers focus on movements in “non-employment” as a share of the total population in three age groups between the final quarters of 2007 and 2012. This measure has the advantage of including not just unemployment, where people are looking for work, but also inactivity, where people are not seeking jobs. Whereas the average non-employment rate in the OECD has risen by four percentage points among young people and by one-and-a-half points among 25- to 54-year-olds, it has fallen by two points among the 55-64 age group.
Why have older employees done so well? In some southern European countries they benefit from job protection not afforded to younger workers, but that did not really help them in past recessions. What has changed, says Stefano Scarpetta, head of the OECD’s employment directorate, is that firms now bear the full costs of getting rid of older staff. In the past early-retirement schemes provided by governments (in the mistaken belief that these would help young people) made it cheaper to push grey-haired workers out of the door. These have largely stopped.
Job losses among older workers have also been balanced by falls in inactivity, reflecting employment presssure that were already apparent before the crisis. Older workers are healthier than they used to be and work is less physically demanding. They are also more attractive to employers than former generations.
Today’s 55- to 64-year-olds are the advance group of the post-war baby-boomers who benefited from better education than their predecessors. Older workers now have a stronger motivation to stay in employment because of the impact of the crisis on wealth.
Many will argue that older workers have done better at the expense of the young. That view is wrongheaded. First, it is a mistaken belief that a job gained for one person is a job lost for another; there is no fixed “lump of labour”. And second, as the report shows, young and old people are by and large not substitutes in the workplace. They do different types of work in different types of occupation: younger people are attracted to IT firms, for example, whereas older folk tend to be employed in more traditional industries. There are plenty of things that should be done to help the young jobless, but shunting older workers out of the workplace is not one of them.