2. 外语
  3. A. amounted B. appealing C. automatically D. epidemic E. existence F. gain G. imposes H. intermittent I.

A. amounted B. appealing C. automatically D. epidemic E. existence F. gain G. imposes H. intermittent I.

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问题    A. amounted  B. appealing    C. automatically    D. epidemic    E. existence
   F. gain    G. imposes    H. intermittent     I. lay      J. led
   K. lowers   L. pressing    M. productively    N. sack     O. worst-run
   The Economist calculates that around the world almost 290 million 15- to 24-year-olds are neither working nor studying: almost a quarter. of the planet’s youth. On the other hand, many of the "employed" young have only informal and 【C1】______jobs. In rich countries more than a third, on average, are on temporary contracts which make it hard to 【C2】______ skills. In poorer ones, according to the World Bank, a fifth are unpaid family labourers or work in the informal economy. All in all, nearly half of the world’s young people are either outside the formal economy or contributing less 【C3】______than they could.
   What has caused this 【C4】______ of joblessness? Young people have long had a raw deal in the labour market. Two things make the problem more 【C5】______ now. The financial crisis and its consequence had an unusually big effect on them. Many employers 【C6】______ the newest hires first, so a recession raises youth joblessness disproportionately.
   Second, the emerging economies that have the largest and fastest-growing populations of young people also have the 【C7】______ labour markets. Almost half of the world’s young people live in South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. They also have the highest share of young people out of work or in the informal sector.
   In rich countries with generous welfare states this 【C8】______ a heavy burden on taxpayers. One estimate suggests that, last year, the economic loss from disengaged young people in Europe  【C9】______ to $153 billion, or more than 1% of GDP. And failure to employ the young not only  【C10】______ growth today. It also threatens it tomorrow.
【C3】
选项
答案M
解析 空格所在处应填入副词修饰contributing“贡献”或者填入名词作宾语。上文提到这些年轻人工作的非正式性、短暂性，可知他们对社会的贡献相对就少，词库中的副词productively“生产力高地”符合要求，contributing less productively than they could指“没有充分发挥出应有的生产力”，故选M项。automatically“自动地，不由自主地”代入，语义不通，因此排除。
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