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[考研类试卷]考研英语（阅读）模拟试卷14 Part A Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points) 0 The Recession Effects an Employed Smith Colleges career office sent its anxious job-hunting seniors a letter last month with a reassuring message : There are jobs, and you can find employment. Unfortunately, there are far fewer jobs than anticipated, according to a report out today from the National Association for Colleges and Employers (NACE). The companies surveyed for the groups spring update are planning to hire 22 % fewer graduates from the class of 2009 than they hired from the class of 2008, a big letdown from the groups projections in October that hiring would hold steady. Some 44% of companies in the survey, conducted last month, said they plan to hire fewer new graduates, and another 22% said they do not plan to hire at all this spring, more than double last years figure. If you were a student and were out there (interviewing) in the fall, you probably had a decent chance of getting a job, says Edwin Koc, director of strategic and foundation research at NACE. But frankly, the spring does not look good. Job prospects for college graduates, which had been on the rise since 2004, dropped in virtually every sector this year. The most dramatic decline was, not surprisingly, in finance, which hemorrhaged 71 % of expected job openings. Less expected but equally troubling is the 37% decline in hiring for professional services, which include accounting and engineering. Poor hiring estimates from this area speak to the depth of the recession in the college labor market for the class of 2009, the report says. Government is essentially the only industry planning to hire more new graduates this year than last, as the new Administration expands and a graying workforce retires. The increase in government recruiting is obvious to students. Last year, not