C Unemployment(失业)rose from 7.5&in June, 1996to 7.8% in July, 1996, the highest rate since January of that year , the Labor1 Department reported. The main reason was a large increase -----nearly 700, 000 in the labor force , with a record 61.9% of the population over sixteen years of age working or actively2 looking for work. That growth was caused mainly by an increase in the number of women in the labor force , an increase partly because of a continuation of long ----term and economic trends(经济趋势)and partly a reflection of pressure on families to increase their incomes.
45. According to the announcement, which of the following statements is correct?
46. Why did unemployment increase during the period discussed in the passage?
47. which of the following is said to be the main reason why more people are looking for work?
48. It can be inferred that the labor force described in the passage is made up of __________
D I found myself facing a dry-cleaning store which had once been one of the best restaurants in New York. On Sundays the old man would take my mother and me for dinner. There had been a balcony(走廊)where a baker5 (面包师)in a tall white hat baked fresh bread, and been whenever a customer entered, the baker would look down and put in a fresh batch(一炉).I could see the manager who always sat down with us while we ate. He had some disease, I suppose, because the right side of his face was swollen6 (肿的)out like a balloon, but he always wore a hard wing collar and a white tie, and never seemed sick. A Negro with a moustache was looking through the store window at me. For a moment I was anxious to go and tell him what I remembered. I did not go into the store, nor even toward our house, I went down town instead and sat in my room, trying to read.
49. Why did the writer stop in front of the store?
50. In America "old man" probably means _______.
51. What did the writer do when he walked away from the dry-cleaning store?
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