Unemployment may be one of the biggest problems our people as well as our government a
re faced with today. According to an official report, in Shanghai alone, since 1986, nearly 1,000,000 adult workers have lost their jobs because of factory closings and cutbacks-----either temporarily laid off or permanently forced to retire.
Many people, especially the policy makers, believe that forcing adult workers, those who are over 45, to retire is an effective means to relieve the tension of unemployment, for it can provide more job opportunities for the jobless young. But they fail to notice that forcing a person who is still able to work and has a family to support to retire brings serious financial problems as well as emotional and physical ones. They also fail to realize that actually workers aged 45-60 tend to be more stable, more skillful and more experienced than workers of any other ages, that to some extent this age is the prime time for one’s productivity and creativity. To force them to retire is a huge waste of the nation’s best resources. On the contrary, if we turn our attention to the other end of the age problem, a more effective way might emerge. Today, only 30% of school- leavers are allowed to go to college, leaving the majority of the young people under 18 and without adequate preparation to join the labor force. If, however, more of them are able to attend college and begin full-time employment at a later age, more job opportunities will be created as the number of years that an average person works full time shrinks.
Most importantly, we should not be content merely to solve the problem of unemployment, but rather, we should improve the quality of the workforce at the same time by retaining the skilled adults and recruiting(补充，招收) the well-educated young.
（1）The best title for this passage might be（）.
A. How to Solve the Problem of Unemployment？
B. Should People Be Forced to Retire？
C. Why Don’t We Educate the Young？
D. Are the Policy Makers Wise？
（2） Forcing a middle-aged person to retire might cause（）.
A. financial problems
B. a huge waste of the nation’s talent resources
C. emotional and physical problems
D. all of the above
（3）The word “prime” in Paragraph 2 Line 6 can be best replaced by “ （）”.
A. first
B. early
C. major
D. spring
（4）Which of the following suggestions does the writer make？
A. Young people should work harder in order to go to college.
B. Colleges should be open to more high school-leavers.
C. The old should be allowed to work as long as they want to.
D. Policy makers should create more job opportunities.
（5）What is the writer’s attitude to the described situation？
A. Concerned.
B. Hopeless
C. Indifferent
D. Content.
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