北京大学16春 大学英语3 第2组作业答案.doc

Get to the top of the hill. but you will see the whole city. A. A. Get to B. B. top of the hill C. C. but D. D. will 19. Is that the reason because you are in favor of the proposal? A. A. Is B. B. reason C. C. because D. D. in favor of 20. There was so much noise in the room that I could hardly hear myself to think. A. A. so much B. B. that C. C. hardly D. D. to think 21. As any middle-class parent knows, unpaid work experience can give youngsters a valuable introduction toa secure job. The government has recognized it too, abandoning rules in 2011 that had formerly stopped 16- to 24-year-olds from doing unpaid work while claiming unemployment benefit. But moving from that to forcing them to work without pay in order to collect these benefits has proved a big step. More than one million young people in Britain are unemployed, the highest number since the mid-1980s. Keen both to cut the welfare bill and to avoid the depressed future wages that may result from early unemployment, the government has introduced an am bitious program of reform to get youngsters off welfare and into work. A key part of it is ensuring that no one gets benefit from the government for long; ministers are keen to avoid what happened after the early-1980s recession ( 衰退), when unemployment con tinued in some parts of the country for a long time after the economy began to improve. To help young people into work, ministers had persuaded lots of employers, including bakery chains, bookshops, and supermarkets, to take on unemployed youths, who receive work experience but no pay, with the prospect ofa proper job for those who shine. Some 35,000 youngsters participated last year; half found paid work soon after finishing the scheme. The idea of getting young adults used to showing up for work is popular with voters: according toa survey published in February, about 60% of people support the program. Equally attractive was the option pelling them to work: under the existing arrangements youngsters co