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2017下半年英语六级选词填空模拟试题
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Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
At the height of Detroit's boom in the mid 20th century, this plant manufactured Packard automobiles, employing about 40,000 people. The promise of good pay and plenty of work at similar (36)_______ around the city attracted people like Tennessee native George McGregor in the 1960s.
Today, he's president of the United Auto Workers Local 22 in Detroit. "When I first came here, in the automobile factory, they were begging people to come. The hour (37) _______ was something like $3.25 an hour," he recalled. But the auto industry stopped begging when(38) _______ for American cars slowed and interest in foreign automobiles increased.
The Packard brand became (39)_______, and the hum of its once mighty factory is silent. Crumbling buildings are part of one of the largest vacant industrial complexes in the world. They (40) _______Detroit's boom-to-bust story. "There were about a dozen auto factories, and you know very large (41)_______ , and over time those have been shut down to now there's only one left," Scorsone said.
Economist Eric Scorsone, at Michigan State University, said although General Motors (42)_______ the most prominent set of buildings in downtown Detroit, the auto industry plays a much smaller role in the city's economy. "In fact, health care is the biggest employer now in the city," he said.
There were about 300,000 auto factory jobs in Detroit in the 1950s, when the (43) _______ was around 1.8million. Today, there are fewer than 27,000 jobs in plants operated by Chrysler and GM, and the overall population is just above 700,000. "We got three casinos and two auto factories," McGregor explained. "We went from (44)_______ . to gaming for jobs." McGregor's UAW Local 22 Detroit (45)_______. workers at the GM Hamtramck plant still in operation here.
A. inquire
B. people
C. demand
D. make
E. boasts
F. represents
G. employees
H. symbolize
I. plants
J. manufacturing
K. extinct
L. population
M. employers
N. standard
O. rate
参考译文
在20世纪中期底特律繁荣的鼎盛时期，生产帕卡德汽车的这个厂子员工多达40000人。在二十世纪六十年代，在这座城市周围类似的(36) 厂子中，这样有丰厚收入和诸多工作机会的前景吸引了像田纳西州乔治麦克格雷格这样的当地人。
现在，他是底特律“汽车工人联合会底特律22分会”的主席。 “我刚到这时，在汽车厂里，他们求着人们来。每小时(37) 工费大概有3.25美元，”他回忆道。但是当对美国汽车的(38) 需求降低而对外国汽车的兴趣提高时，汽车工业停止了乞求。
帕卡德这个品牌现在已经(39) 销声匿迹了，这个一度规模巨大的厂子的轰鸣声也不复存在。破败的大楼是这个全球最大的空置工业园区的一部分。它们(40) 代表了底特律的繁荣过往。 “这里曾有十几家汽车厂，你知道它们(41) 雇主很多。世易时移，现在几乎都关门了，只剩下一家了。”思科森说。
密歇根州立大学的经济学家埃里克思科森说：虽然通用汽车公司(42) 吹嘘它是底特律市区最显眼的建筑，但汽车工业在这座城市的经济中起的作用已经小了很多。 “实际上，医疗才是这个城市最大的雇主，”他说。
在二十世纪五十年代，底特律有约30万个汽车相关工作， (43) 人口大约有180万。而如今，克莱斯勒和通用汽车公司的厂子总共能提供不到2.7万个工作岗位，总人口也刚刚过70万而已。“我们有三家赌场和两家汽车厂，”麦克格雷格解释道： “我们为了获得工作机会从(44) 生产型岗位转到了彩头型岗位。”麦克格雷格的“汽车工人联合会底特律22分会” (45) 代表着还在通用汽车位于汉姆特拉姆克的厂子中坚守岗位的工人们。
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