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As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn’t good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth

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问题     As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn’t good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero. That’s bad for the economy, of course. And it may be especially discouraging if you happen to be looking for a job or hoping to change careers right now. But it actually shouldn’t matter to you nearly as much as you think.
    That’s because job growth numbers don’t matter to job hunters as much as job turnover (人员更替) data. After all, existing jobs open up every day due to promotions, resignations, terminations (解雇), and retirements. (Yes, people are retiring even in this economy.) In both good times and bad, turnover creates more openings than economic growth does. Even in June of 2007, when the economy was still moving ahead, job growth was only 132,000, while turnover was 4.7 million!
    And as it turns out, even today—with job growth near zero—over 4 million job hunters are being hired every month.
    I don’t mean to imply that overall job growth doesn’t have an impact on one’s ability to land a job. It’s true that if total employment were higher, it would mean more jobs for all of us to choose from (and compete for). And it’s true that there are currently more people applying for each available job opening, regardless of whether it’s a new one or not.
    But what often distinguishes those who land jobs from those who don’t is their ability to stay motivated. They’re willing to do the hard work of identifying their valuable skills; be creative about where and how to look; learn how to present themselves to potential employers; and keep going, even after repeated rejections. The Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that 2.7 million people who wanted and were available for work hadn’t looked within the last four weeks and were no longer even classified as unemployed.
    So don’t let the headlines fool you into giving up. Four million people get hired every month in the U.S. You can be one of them.
Where do most job openings come from?
选项 A、Job growth.
B、Job turnover.
C、Improved economy.
D、Business expansion.
答案B
解析 本题询问大多数职位空缺源自何处。第2段第4句明确提到人员流动(turnover)所创造的新职位要比经济增长(economic growth)所创造的要多。B项Job turnover等同于该句中的turnover，故正确。从第2段第1句可知，新增职位数量(job growth numbers)没有人员流动量对求职者的影响那么大，第2段最后一句也用数据对比说明新增职位(job growth)创造的职位空缺很少，因此排除A；第2段第4句说明经济增长没有人员流动创造的新职位多，故C项“经济增长”排除；D项“业务发展”也许会带来新增职位(job growth)，但原文明确指出turnover带来的职位空缺更多，
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