Are you at risk of losing your job to a computer？Check the federal Bureau of Labor

　　Statistics‘Occupational Outlook Handbook，which is available online at bls.gov .

　　41、From the first paragraph we can infer that all of the following persons are easily thrown into unemployment EXCEPT.

　　A. secretaries 　　B. stock clerks 　　C.  managers 　　D.   wholesalers

　　42、In the second paragraph the author mentions the tollbooth collector to

　　A. mean he will get benefits from the telecomm field

　　B. show he is too old to shift to a new position

　　C.  console him on having been replaced by a machine

　　D.   blame the PC for his unemployment

　　43.By saying“┅compumation could drive an even deeper wedge between the rich and poor”（line 5. Para 4）the author means

　　A. people are getting richer and richer

　　B. there will be a small gap between rich and poor

　　C.  the gap between rich and poor is getting larger and larger

　　D.   it‘s time to close up the gap between the rich and poor

　　44、What is the author‘s attitude towards computers？

　　A. positive 　　B. negative 　　C.  neutral 　　D.   prejudiced

　　45、Which of the following might serve as the best title of passage？

　　A. Blaming the PC

　　B. The booming telecomm field

　　C.  Internet distance leaning

　　D.   Keeping up with compumation

　　Question 46 to 50 are based on the following passage：

　　Tens of thousands of 18 -year-olds will graduate this year and be handed meaningless diplomas. These diplomas won‘t look any different from those awarded their luckier classmates .Their validity will be questioned only when their employers discover that these graduates are semiliterate（半文盲）

　　Eventually a fortunate few will find their way into educational– repair shops—adult–literacy programs，such as the one where I teach basic grammar and writing. There，high-school graduates and high-school dropouts pursuing graduate-equivalency certificates will learn the skills they should have learned in school，They will also discover they have been cheated by our educational system.

　　I will never forget a teacher who got the attention of one of my children by revealing the trump card of failure. Our youngest，a world-class charmer，did little to develop his intellectual talents but always got by Until Mrs. Stifter.

　　Our son was high -school senior when be had her for English .“He sits in the back of the room talking to his friends.”she told me，“Why don‘t you move him to the front row？”I urged，believing the embarrassment would get him to settle down，Mrs. Stifter said，“I don’t move seniors. I flunk（使┅不及格）them.”Our son‘s academic life flashed before my eyes. No teacher had ever threatened him. By the time I got home I was feeling pretty good about this .It was a radical approach for these times，but well，Why not？“She’s going to flunk you.”I told my son.