39. A understand the interrelations of man and nature 40. D come to terms with
Part B
Directions:
Read the following text and match each of the numbered items in the left column to its corresponding information in the right column. There are two extra choices in the right column. Mark your answers on the ANSWE SHEET.(10 minutes)
The decline in American manufacturing is a common refrain, particularly from Donald Trump. “We don’t make anything anymore.”he told Fox News, while defending his own made-in-Mexico clothing line.
Without question, manufacturing has taken a significant hit during recent decades, and further trade deals raise questions about whether new shocks could hit manufacturing.
But there is also a different way to look at the data.
Across the country, factory owners are now grappling with a new challenge: Instead of having too many workers, they may end up with too few. Despite trade competition and outsourcing. American manufacturing still needs to replace tens of thousands of retiring boomers every year. Millennials may not be that interested in taking their places. Other industries are recruiting them with similar or better pay.
For factory owners, it all adds up to stiff competition for workers - and upward pressure on wages. “They’re harder to find and they have job offers.”says Jay Dunwell, president of Wolverine Coil Spring, a family-owned firm. “They may be coming [into the workforce], but they’ve been plucked by other industries that are also doing as well as manufacturing.”Mr Dunwell has begun bringing high school juniors to the factory so they can get exposed to its culture.
At RoMan Manufacturing, a maker of electrical transformers and welding equipment that his father cofounded in 1980, Robert Roth keeps a close eye on the age of his nearly 200 workers. Five are retiring this year. Mr Roth has three community-college students enrooled in a
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work-placement program, with a starting wage of $17 after two years.
At a worktable inside the transformer plant, young Jason Stenquist looks flustered by the copper coils he’s trying to assemble and the arrival of two visitors. It
’s his first week on the job.
Asked about his choice of career, he says at high school he considered medical school before switching to electrical engineering. “I love working with tools. I loving creating.
” he says.
But to win over these young workers, manufacturing have to clear another major hurdle: parents, who lived through the worst US economic downtown since the Great Despreesion, telling them to avoid the factory. Millennials “remember their father and mother both were laid off. They blame it on the manufacturing recessions.” says Birgit Klohs, chief executive of The Right Place, a business development agency western Michigan.
There concerns aren’t misplaced: Employment in manufacturing has fallen from 17 million in 1970 to 12 million in 2015. When the recovery began, worker strangers first appeared in the high-skilled trades. Now shortages are appearing at the mid-skilled levels.
“The gap is between the jobs that take on skill and those that require a lot of skills.
” says rob
Spohr, a business professor at Montcalm Community College. “There’re enough people to fill the jobs at McDonalds and other places where you don’t need to have much skill. It’s that gap in between, and that’s where the problem is.”
Julie Parks of Grand Rapids Community College points to another key to another key to luring Millennials into manufacturing: a worker/life balance. While their parents were content to work long hours, young people value flexibility. “Overtime is not attractive to this generation. They really want to live their lives.” she says.
[A] believe that it is important to keep a close eye on the age of his workers
41. Jay Dunwell
[B] says that the manufacturing recession is to blame for the lay off of the young people’s parents.
42. Jason Stenquist
[C] says that for factory owners, workers are harder to find because of stiff competition.
43. Birgit Klohs
[D] says that he switched to electrical engineering because he loves working with tools.
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44. Rob Spohs [E] points out that the US doesn’t manufacture anything anymore.
45. Julie Parks [F] points out that there are enough people to fill the jobs that don’t need much skill.
[G] points out that a worker/life balance can attract young people into manufacturing.
【答案】
41. Jay Dunwell 答案C says that for factory owners, workers are harder to find because of stiff competition.
42. Jason Stenquist 答案D says that he switched to electrical engineering because he loves working with tools.
43. Birgit Klohs 答案B says that the manufacturing recession is to blame for the lay-off of the young people’s parents.
44. Rob Spohr 答案F points out there are enough people to fill the jo s that donskill.
45. Julie Parks 答案G points out that a work/life balance can attract young people into manufacturing.
Section III
Translation
Directions:
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written neat on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)
My dream has always been to work somewhere in an area between fashion and publishing. Two years before graduating from secondary school, I took a sewing and design course thinking that I would move on to a fashion design course. However, during that course I realized that I was not good enough in this area to compete with other creative personalities in the future, so I decided that it was not the right path for me. Before applying for university I told everyone that I would
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t need muc
’study journalism, because writing was, and still is, one of my favorite activities. But, to be honest, I said it, because I thought that fashion and me together was just a dream
—I knew that no one
could imagine me in the fashion industry at all! So I decided to look for some fashion-related courses that included writing. This is when I noticed the course “Fashion Media & Promotion.
”
46.【答案】我总是梦想着在一个与时尚和出版相关的地方工作。在中学毕业前的两年，我参加了一个缝纫和涉及课程，
并想着自己会继续去学习一个时尚设计课程。
将来也竞争不过其他富有创造力的人才，
然而，上课期间因此我断定对我
我意识到自己并不擅长这一领域，
而言，这并非正确的道路。申请大学之前，我告诉大家，我会学习新闻专业，因为写作曾经是，而且现在仍然是，我最喜欢的活动之一。但是，坦诚而言，我之所以这样说，是因为我认为时尚于我只是一个梦想——我知道根本没有人能够想象我会从事时尚行业。找一些与时尚有关而又包含写作的课程。恰在那时，我注意到了
因此我决定
“时尚媒体与推广”课程。
Section IV
Part A 47. Directions:
Writing
Suppose you are invited by Professor Williams to give a presentation about Chinese culture to a group of international students. Write a reply to
1)2)
Accept the initation, and
Introduce the key points of your presentation.
You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not use your own name. Use “Li Ming” instead. Do not write your address. (10 points). 47.【答案】
Dear Professor Williams,
I would like to extend my hearty gratitude to you for your invitation to give a lecture. And I am very delighted that I could have the opportunity to introduce Chinese culture to these international students.
The key factors for my lecture are as follows. To begin with, I would talk about the development of Chinese culture, since it can let these students understand China more comprehensively. Furthermore, I will introduce the communication of Chinese culture with foreign ones, which will help the students have an easier grasp of Chinese culture.
Once again, thank you very much for your invitation. I am looking forward to seeing you soon.
Sincerely yours,
Li Ming
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Part B
48. Directions:
Write an essay based on the following chart. In your writing, you should 1) interpret the chart, and 2) give your comments.
You should write about 150 words on the ANSWER SHEET. (15 points)
48.【答案】
Here is a line chart, telling us an interesting phenomenon. It goes without saying that the chart records the amount of museums and that of their visitors in China from 2013 to 2015, which successfully arouses our curiosity. As is clearly reflected by the chart, the numbers of museums and of tourists have witnessed great changes during the two years. Especially, the sum of visitors has experienced the most dramatic change, jumping from 637.8 million in 2013 to 781.1 million in 2015. Obviously, the various inclinations, clearly reflected by the chart, should be given more consideration
Theoretically, several reasons may trigger the trend that increasing people are in a large part willing to go to museums, but for my part, the following two are of great importance. On the top of list is that the improvement of living standard has offered people abundant time and money to visit museums. In addition, there is the other point that no one can deny. It is universally admitted
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