揭阳第一中学2012-2013高三第二次阶段考试

英语试题

Ⅰ语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中．选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

According to a recent report, some once-hot majors like English, Computer and Law for Chinese students entering college have now fallen out of favor. The reason is that more graduates studying in those fields end up __1__.

This year, a sample of 500,000 college __2__ from 2009 were surveyed and 220,000 questionnaires were received back for the 2010 report. Among the __3__ majors, Law graduates had the most difficulty finding jobs, with the __4__ unemployment rate of 17.7% of all the majors in 2009. English majors had the highest __5__ of the unemployed for three years, with 15,700 graduates still out of work.

“Such majors as Computer, English and Law were the most __6__ ones for Beijing students entering universities in 2005, but now these graduates are in a tight corner,” said Ba ran, a senior occupation counselor at a well-known company. Ba