2009年6月英语四级阅读冲刺倒计时(倒数14天)

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　　They are among the 250,000 people under the age of 25 who are out of work in the Netherlands, a group that accounts for 40 percent of the nation’s unemployed. A storm of anger boils up at the government-sponsored(政府资助的) youth center, even among those who are continuing their studies.

　　“We study for jobs that don’t exist.” Nicollete Steggerda, 23, said.

　　After three decades of prosperity, unemployment among 10 member nations of the European Community has exceeded 11 percent, affecting a total of 12.3 million people, and the number is climbing.

　　The bitter disappointment long expressed by British youths is spreading across the Continent. The title of a rock song “No Future” can now be seen written on the brick walls of closed factories in Belgium and France.

　　Recent surveys have found that the increasing argument in the last few years over the deployment(布局) in Europe of North Atlantic Treaty Organization missiles and the possibility of nuclear war have clouded European youths’ confidence in the future.

　　One form of protest tends to put the responsibility for a country’s economic troubles on the large numbers of “guest workers” from Third World nations, people welcomed in Western Europe in the years of prosperity.

　　Young Europeans, brought up in an extended period of economic success and general stability, seem to resemble Americans more than they do their own parents. Material enjoyment has given them a sense of expectation, each the right, to a standard of living that they see around them.

　　“And so we pass the days at the discos, or meet people at the café, and sit and stare.” Said Isabella Gcuit. “There is usually not much conversation. You look for happiness. Sometimes you even find it.”

　　1.Unemployment in the Netherlands has affected ____.

　　A)one million people

　　B)approximately 12.3 million of people

　　C)250,000 people

　　D)roughly 0.6 million people

　　2.What Nicollete Steggerda said(Para.2) suggests that ____.

　　A)school education is not sufficient

　　B)the students’ aim in study is not clear

　　C)the students can’t get work after graduation

　　D)the students lose their motivation in their study

　　3.British youths ____.

　　A)are trying to seek their fortune on the Continent

　　B)are indifferent to the unemployed on the Continent

　　C)have been the first to show their disappointment over joblessness

　　D)are sympathetic to the unemployed in France and Belgium