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  3. Last year’s economy in the United States should have won the Oscar for best picture. Growth in gross domestic product was 4.1 pe

Last year’s economy in the United States should have won the Oscar for best picture. Growth in gross domestic product was 4.1 pe

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问题     Last year’s economy in the United States should have won the Oscar for best picture. Growth in gross domestic product was 4.1 percent profits【1】up exports flourished and inflation (通货膨胀) stayed around 3 percent for the third year. So why did so many Americans give the picture only a B rating? The answer is jobs. The macroeconomic (宏观经济的) situation was good, but the microeconomic (微观经济的) numbers were not. Yes, 3 million new jobs were there, but not enough of them were【2】, good jobs paying enough to support a family.
    Job insecurity was serious. Even as they【3】higher sales and profits, corporations acted as if they were operating at a【4】, cutting 516,069 jobs in 1994 alone, almost as many as in the bad year of 1991. Yes, unemployment went down. But over 1 million workers were so【5】they left the labor force. More than 6 million who wanted full time work were only partially【6】and another large group was sheltered behind self-employment. We lost a million good manufacturing jobs between 1990 and 1995, continuing the【7】that has reduced the blue-collar work force from about 30 percent in the 1950s to about half that today.
    White-collar workers found out they were no longer【8】. In 1995, for the first time, they were let go in numbers【9】equal to those for blue-collar workers. Many turn to【10】work—with lower pay, fewer benefits and less status. All this is a country where people meeting for the first time say, "What do you do?"
A. announced B. trend C. performed D. temporary
E. permanent F. virtually G. technical H. employed
I. exposure J. originally K. soared L. significance
M. secure N. discouraged O. loss
【5】
选项
答案N
解析 此空在were后面，且由副词so修饰，所以有两种可能性，一种是形容词，另一种是分词。前文说到失业率下降，此处的形容词是100多万工人自己离职的原因，由此可确定该词表消极意义。词库中的四个形容词都不合适，而动词的过去分词形式中，discouraged符合条件，意为“灰心的，丧气的”。
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