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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.
What does the author say about overall job growth?
选项 A、It doesn’t have much effect on individual job seekers.
B、It increases people’s confidence in the economy.
C、It gives a ray of hope to the unemployed.
D、It doesn’t mean greater job security for the employed.
答案A
解析 本题询问作者对于整体职位增长的看法。文章在第2、3段都谈到了职位增长(job growth)的影响：第2段第1句说到职位增长没有人员更替对求职者的影响大，最后一句用数据说明在2007年经济形势好的情况下，职位增长带来的职位空缺也不是特别多；第3段说即使现在职位增长为零，每个月都会有400万个求职者找到工作。第4段第1句作者用双重否定指出，这并不是说整体的职位增长对个人就业没有影响。言下之意是，整体职位增长对求职者有一定影响，但影响不大，A“对单个求职者影响不大”与此相符。从第2、3段可知整体职位增长因经济形势好坏有少有多；第4段第2句作者用虚拟语气指出。如果总体就业率更高(if total employment were higher)，人们会有更多的工作可以选择。但B“增加了人们对经济的信心”和C“给失业者带来一线希望”都把就业率更高(higher)这个条件推广至可多可少的整体职位增长，故不对；文章并没有提到D项job security(工作保障)跟“总的职位增长”的关系，故排除。
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