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[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语(二)模拟题40 Section Ⅰ Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.  1 job applications to eliminate discrimination is not easy. Ten big employers in the public and private sectors—including the civil service, HSBC and Deloitte—have agreed to start 2 on a name-blind basis in Britain; others may also follow suit. In such schemes, those drawing up shortlists of applicants cannot see their 3 , with the aim of 4 racial and sexual bias. But do they work?  In France a law passed in 2006 made the anonymising of applicants CVs 5 for firms of over 50 employees. But the government was slow in laying 6 the conditions for how the law would operate, and only started 7 it last year. In Sweden and the Netherlands there have been some trials.  Discrimination against job applicants based on their names is well 8 , particularly among ethnic minorities. An experiment in Germany found that candidates with German-sounding names were 14% more likely to be called 9 an interview than candidates with Turkish ones. A review of various studies, by the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA), a German outfit, found that anonymised job applications 10 the chances of ethnic-minority candidates being invited to a /an 11 A Swedish study found that it led to more 12 candidates being hired.  However, the results from other trials are not 13 . A second Swedish experiment found that only women, not immigrants, were boosted by anonymous recruitment. According to the IZA, experiments in the Netherlands showed no 14 in the likelihood of ethnic-minority candidates being offered a job if their CVs were seen anonymously, suggesting that discrimination had 15 at the interview stage.  Ensuring that a candidate is completely 16 is also tricky. A 2012 French s