A.pay
B.ship
C.insure
D.pack
The newly built factory is in urgent need of a number of skilled and ______ workers.
A.consistent
B.conscious
C.confidential
D.conscientious
Which of the following is not conceit but a cry for reassurance? ()
A.An urgent need for contact with adult.
B.A child's efforts to be independent.
C.A child's unsureness.
D.A child's making statements about his own cleverness.
A.reveal their impact on people's habits
B.show the urgent need of daily necessities
C.indicate their effect on people's buying power
D.manifest the significant role of good habits
But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the future of work. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm? Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer? Should we not aim to revive the household and the neighbourhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centres of production and work?
The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people's work has taken the form. of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought about may have to be reversed. This seems a discouraging thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom.
Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people's homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people travelled longer distances to their places of employment until eventually, many people's work lost all connection with their home lives and places in which they lived.
Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. It became customary for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and family to his wife.
All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away from the impractical goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.
What idea did the author derive from the recent opinion polls?
A.New jobs must be created in order to rectify high unemployment figures.
B.Available employment should be restricted to a small percentage of the population.
C.The present high unemployment figures are a fact of life.
D.Jobs available must be distributed among more people.
Since the matter was extremely ______, we dealt with it immediately.
A) tough B) tense C) urgent D) instant
—When do we need to pay the balance? —______September
A.In
B.By
C.During
D.Within
Why do we say that lawyers are one of the most reactionary forces in American society?
A.They practice the art of distortion in an effort to win legal games where we need honest communications.
B.They promote conflict and blame when we need cooperation and self-responsibility.
C.They promote division where we need unity.
D.All of the above.
We don't need heating system, ______.
A.and nor we can afford it
B.we don't afford it
C.nor can we afford it
D.nor can it afford