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三、Cloze(30 points)
21、根据短文，回答21-40题。
　　Most of you graduating today will be employees all your working life，working for some．body else and for a paycheck．And SO will most，___21___ not all，of the thousands of other youngAmericans graduating this year in all the other school and colleges across the country．
　　___22___has become a society of employees．A hundred years or so ago only one 23 everyfive Americans all work was employed,i．e．，worked for somebody,else．Today only 20％of A．mericans are not employed but working for themselves．And ___24___ fifty years a90“being em—ployed”meant___25___as a factory laborer or as a farm hand，the employee of today is increasing—ly a middle-class person with a ___26___ formal education，holding a professional or managementjob requiting___27___and technical skills．___28___，two things have characterized American socie．ty during these last fifty years：the middle and upper classes have become employees；and middle—class and___29___employees have been the fastest growing groups in our working population．grow-ing SO fast that the industrial worker，that ___30___ child of the Industrial Revolution．has beenlosing in numerical importance ___31___the expansion of industrial production．
　　This is one of the most profound social changes any country ___32___．It is，however，a per-haps ___33___ 9reater change for the individual young man___34___to start．Whatever he does，inau____35__，he will do it as an employee；wherever he aims，he will have to try to reach it___36___being an employee．
　　As an employee you work with and through other people．This means that your success asan employee will ___37___ 0n your ability to communicate with people and to present your ownthoughts and ideas to them ___38___ they will both understand what you are driving ___39___ and．be persuaded．The letter，the report or memorandum(记录)，the ___40___ spoken“presentation”to a committee are basic tools of the employee．
第21题答案为：
A．but
B．if
C．nearly
D．fortunately


22、第22题答案为：
A．Ours
B．Mine
C．Our
D．It


23、 第23题答案为：
A．except
B．of
C．out of
D．among


24、 第24题答案为：
A．when
B．where
C．what
D．wherever


25、 第25题答案为：
A．to work
B．working
C．to working
D．work


26、 第26题答案为：
A．substantial
B．material
C．substantive
D．important


27、 第27题答案为：
A．mechanical
B．liberal
C．practical
D．intellectual


28、 第28题答案为：
A．Therefore
B．Instead
C．Indeed
D．After all


29、 第29题答案为：
A．upper—class
B．lower．class
C．low-class
D．the rest


30、 第30题答案为：
A．old
B．older
C．oldest
D．small