Today the world's economy is going through two great changes, both bigger than an Asian financial crisis here or a European monetary union there. The first change is that a lot of industrial_62_is moving from the United States, Western Europe and Japan to _63 _countries in Latin America, South-East Asia and Eastern Europe. In 1950, the United States alone _64_ for more than half of the world's economy output. In 1990, its _65_ was down to a quarter. By 1990, 40% of IBM's employees were non-Americans; Whirlpool, America's leading _66_ of domestic appliances, cut its American labor force _67_ 10%. Quite soon now, many big western companies will have more _68_ (and customers) in poor countries than in rich _69_ . The second great change is _70_ , in the rich countries of the OECD, the balance of economic activity is _71_ from manufacturing to _72_ . In the United States and Britain, the_73_ of workers in manufacturing has _74_ since 1900 from around 40% to barely half that. _75_ in Germany and Japan, which rebuilt so many _76_ after 1945, manufacturing's share of jobs is now below 30%. The effect of the _77_ is increased _78_ manufacturing moves from rich countries to the developing ones, _79_ cheap labor _80_ them a sharp advantage in many of the _81_ tasks required by mass production.

　　62. A) product B) production C) products D) productivity

　　63. A) other B) small C) capitalistic D) developing

　　64. A) accounted B) occupiedC) played D) shared

　　65. A) output B) developmentC) share D) economy

　　66. A) state B) consumerC) representative D) supplier

　　67. A) by B) atC) through D) in

　　68. A) products B) marketC) employees D) changes

　　69. A) one B) ones C) times D) time

　　70. A) what B) like C) that D) how

　　71. A) ranging B) varyingC) swinging D) getting

　　72. A) producing B) productsC) servicing D) services

　　73. A) proportion B) numberC) quantity D) group

　　74. A) changed B) goneC) applied D) shrunk

　　75. A) Furthermore B) EvenC) Therefore D) Hence

　　76. A) armies B) weaponsC) factories D) countries

　　77. A) question B) shiftC) manufacturing D) rebuilding

　　78. A) with B) asC) given D) if

　　79. A) while B) whoseC) who's D) which

　　80. A) give B) is givingC) gives D) gave

　　81. A) repetitive B) variousC) creative D) enormous

　　參考答案：

　　BDACD ACBCB DADBC CBBCA

　　六級閱讀選詞填空模擬練習2：

　　I've twice been to college admissions wars, and as I survey the battle field, something different is happening. It's one upmanship among parents. We see our kids college 36 as trophies ( 戰利品) attesting to how well we've raised them. But we can't acknowledge that our obsession is more about us than them. So we've contrived various 37 that turn out to be haft truths, prejudices or myths.

　　We have a full blown prestige panic; we worry that there won't be enough trophies to go around. Fearful parents urge their children to apply to more schools than ever.

　　Underlying the hysteria is the belief that scarce 38 degrees must be highly valuable. Their graduates must enjoy more success because they get a better education and develop better contacts. All that's 39 and mostly wrong. Selective schools don't systematically 40 better instructional approaches than less-selective schools. Some do; some don't. On two measures--professors feedback and the number of essay exams--selective schools do slightly worse.

　　By some studies, selective schools do enhance their graduates lifetime earnings. The gain is reckoned at 2 percent to 4 percent for every 100 point increase in a school's average SAT scores. But even this advantage is probably a 41 fluke (偶然;僥幸). A well kno,vn study by Princeton economist Alan Krueger and Stacy Berg Dale of Mathematica Policy Research examined students who got into highly selective schools and then went elsewhere. They earned just as much as graduates from other schools.

　　Kids count more than their colleges. Getting into Yale may 42 intelligence, talent and ambition.But it's not the only indicator and, 43 , its significance is declining. The reason: so many similar people go elsewhere. Getting into college isn't life's only competition. In the next competition--the job market, graduate school--the results may change. Old boy networks are breaking down. Krueger studied admissions to one top Ph.D. program. High scores on the Graduate Record Exam helped explain who got in; Ivy League degrees didn't.

　　So, parents, lighten up. The stakes have been vastly exaggerated. Up to a point, we can 44 our pushiness(一意孤行). America is a competitive society; our kids need to adjust to that. But too much pushiness can be 45 . The very ambition we impose on our children may get some into Harvard but may also set them up for disappointment. One study of students 20 years out found that, other things being equal, graduates of highly selective-schools experienced more job dissatisfaction. They may have been so conditioned to being on top that anything less disappoints.

　　A)advantageous

　　B)contrarily

　　C)destructive

　　D)elite

　　E)employ

　　F)jlmction

　　G)justifications

　　H)literally

　　I) manipulate

　　J)meditate

　　K)plausible

　　L)ranks

　　M)rationalize

　　N)signify

　　O)statistical

　　參考答案：

　　36.L 37.G 38.D 39.K 40.E 41.O 42.N 43.B 44.M 45.C