They are among the 250, 000 people under the age of 25 who are out of work in the Netherlands, a group that makes up 40 percent of the nation’s unemployed．A storm of anger boils up at the government-sponsored （政府资助的） youth center, even among those who are continuing their studies．
“We study for jobs that don’t exist,” Nicollets Steggerda, 23, said．
After thirty years of prosperity, unemployment among 10 member nations of the European Community has reached as much as 11 percent, affecting a total of 12．3 million people, and the number is climbing．
The bitter disappointment long expressed by British youths is spreading across the Continent．The title of a rock song “No Future” can now be seen written on the brick walls of closed factories in Belgium and France．
One form of protest（抗议） tends to put the responsibility for a country’s economic troubles on the large numbers of “guest workers” from Third World nations, people welcomed in Western Europe in the years of prosperity．
Young Europeans, brought up in an extended period of economic success and general stability, seem to be similar to Americans more than they do their own parents．Material enjoyment has given them a sense of expectation, even the right to a standard of living that they see around them．
“And so we pass the days at the discos, or meet people at the café, and sit and stare,” said Isabella Cault．"There is usually not much conversation．You look for happiness．Sometimes you even find it．”
1.Unemployment in the Netherlands has affected _______
A．one million people B．250,000 people
C．1ess than half of the population D．about 0.6 million people
2.What Nicollete Steggerda said （Para．2） means that ________．
A．the students cannot get work after graduation
B．what the students learn is more than necessary
C．the students’ aim in study is not clear
D．school education is not sufficient
3.The underlined word ‘‘it” in the last paragraph most probably refers to ________．
A．material enjoyment B．a sense of expectation
C．happiness D．a job
Many people believe we are heading for environmental disaster _____we radically(彻底地) change the way we live.
A. but B. although C. unless D. until
----Is there any possibility of the film _____in Paris International Festival?
----Not in the least, because the audience generally think little of it.
A. being tried out B. tried out C. trying out D. to try out
The driver was at____ loss when ____word came that he was forbidden to drive for speeding.
A. a; the B. a; / C. the; the D. /; /
1.一些人订阅了多达两三种不同的报纸。
2.你在会上提出的建议值得考虑。
3.事实上，我使用这辆自行车越多，似乎我就越增肥。
4.他们告别了家乡，动身前往城市。
5.不要把自己直接暴露在强光下。
Motorists who used to listen to the radio or their favorite tunes on CDs may have a new way to entertain themselves, after engineers in Japan developed a musical road surface.
A team from the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute has built a number of“melody roads,”which use cars as tuning forks to play music as they travel.
The concept works by using grooves(凹槽).They are cut at very specific intervals in the road surface. The melody road uses the spaces between to create different notes.
Depending on how far apart the grooves are, a car moving over them will produce a series of high or low notes, and designers are able to create a distinct tune.
Paten documents for the design describe it as notches “formed in a road surface so as to play a melody without producing simple sound or rhythm and reproduce melody-like tones”.
There are three musical strips in central and northern Japan—one of which plays the tune of a Japanese pop song. Reports say the system was invented by Shizuo Shinoda. He scraped some markings into a road with a bulldozer before driving over them and found that they helped to produce all kinds of tones.
The optimal speed for melody road is 44kph,but people say it is not always easy to get the intended sound.
“You need to keep the car windows closed to hear well,”wrote one Japanese blogger.“Driving too fast will sound like playing fast forward, while driving around 12mph［20km/h］has a slow-motion effect, making you almost car-sick.”
1.According to the passage, melody roads use to create different notes.
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A．cars |
B．grooves |
C．spaces between intervals |
D．bulldozers |
2.We can learn from the passage that the highness of notes is depended on .
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A．how far the grooves are |
B．how big the grooves are |
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C．the number of the grooves |
D．the speed of the car |
3.The underlined word “optimal” in the passage might mean .
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A．fastest |
B．possible |
C．best |
D．suitable |
4.In order to hear the music well, you have to .
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A．drive very fast |
B．drive slowly |
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C．open the windows wide |
D．keep the windows closed |
5.What’s the best title of the passage?
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A．A New Type of Music |
B．Melody Roads in Japan |
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C．A Musical Road Surface |
D．A New Invention in J |
