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Passage 10
Back in the carefree days of the Noughties boom, Britain’s youngsters were swept along by the buy-now-pay-later culture embraced by consumers up and down the country. During a decade of near?full employment, many _1_ quickly from one job—and one credit card—to another, and rainy days were such a distant memory that they _2_ seemed worth saving for.
But with the supply of cheap credit _3_ up and a generation of school and university leavers about to _4_ the recession-hit job market, thousands of young people with no memory of the early 1990s recession are shocked into the _5_ that the world of 2009 is very different.
Katie Orme, 19，who lives in Birmingham, says she has decided never to get a credit card after seeing the problems that her parents and 22year-old sister have had with debt—just one of the _6_ lessons that she has had to learn.
Orme finished her A-levels a year ago, and has been searching for a job—and living at home with her parents—ever since. She has had to _7_ on to support herself and is now on a 12-week internship (实习期）at the Prince’s Trust to improve her _8_ . The Trust says that the number of calls from _9_ people such as Orme has shot up by 50% over six months. “It’s so hard to get a job at the moment,” she says, “it’s better to go and get more qualifications so when more jobs are _10_ you will be better suited.”
A) sign B) skipped C) available D) mostly
E) anxious F) mug G) hardly H) remedy
I) realization J) dynamic K) resume L) tough
M) neglected N) drying O) flood

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Passage 10
解题思路
1.[B]此处应为过去式的动词作谓语。空格后的from one job…to another表明此动词应能表示某种动作去向，词库中的动词skipped可与空格后的from…to…搭配，表示很多人随意换工作,符合文中语境。
2.[G]空格位于主语与谓语之间，应为副词。结合上文的内容可知，当时的英国人不用担心失业，此句中such...that…引出一种结果。既然穷困时期那么遥远(a distant memory),也就没有必要节俭了，因此，表否定含义的hardly符合句意。
3.[N]结合句首的with和空格后的介词up推知此处应为动词的分词形式。词库中可与up搭配的分词只有drying一词，drying up表示低利率信贷供给日趋“枯竭”，这正好体现了2009年的经济状况已大不如之前，故drying为本题答案。
4.[O]不定式标记词to提示此处应为动词原形。由本段开头的But—词可推断2009年的经济状况与上文提到的繁荣时期的经济状况相反，这一段应该是说人们很难找到工作，由此可推断空格处应为flood,体现出人多职位少的情况。
5.[I] the提示此处应为名词。随着经济状况的改变，年轻人应该会“发现”世界已与以前不同了，因此，本题答案应为 realization。
6.[L]此处应为修饰lessons的定语,可为名词、形容词或分词。父母和姐姐饱受债务缠身对于凯蒂?奥勒姆应该是沉痛的教训，tough符合句意。
7.[A] has had to提示空格处应填入动词原形,且能与on构成搭配。上句讲到凯蒂?奥勒姆在找工作，本句讲到她得养活自己，现在巳在一家信托公司实习。动词词库中只有sign可与介词on搭配，sign on “签约受雇” 符合句意。
8.[K] her提示此处应为名词。凯蒂?奥勒姆正在做一份实习工作，通过这份工作她的“能力”、“经验”等可以得到提升，故选用resume —词，improve her resume意为“充实她的简历”。
9.[E]此处应为名词、形容词或分词，作定语修饰people。根据上文提到的经济衰退情况和后文凯蒂?奥勒姆所讲的so hard to get a job可推知，诸如凯蒂?奥勒姆这些人对找工作很“担忧”，anxious符合上下文语境。
10.[C]此处应填入名词、形容词或分词作表语。凯蒂?奥勒姆建议拿到更多的资格证，以便能更好地胜任工作，这个前提是有工作机会，available“可得到的”符合句意。