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As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn’t good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth

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问题     As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn’t good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero. That’s bad for the economy, of course. And it may be especially discouraging if you happen to be looking for a job or hoping to change careers right now. But it actually shouldn’t matter to you nearly as much as you think.
    That’s because job growth numbers don’t matter to job hunters as much as job turnover (人员更替) data. After all, existing jobs open up every day due to promotions, resignations, terminations (解雇), and retirements. (Yes, people are retiring even in this economy.) In both good times and bad, turnover creates more openings than economic growth does. Even in June of 2007, when the economy was still moving ahead, job growth was only 132,000, while turnover was 4.7 million!
    And as it turns out, even today—with job growth near zero—over 4 million job hunters are being hired every month.
    I don’t mean to imply that overall job growth doesn’t have an impact on one’s ability to land a job. It’s true that if total employment were higher, it would mean more jobs for all of us to choose from (and compete for). And it’s true that there are currently more people applying for each available job opening, regardless of whether it’s a new one or not.
    But what often distinguishes those who land jobs from those who don’t is their ability to stay motivated. They’re willing to do the hard work of identifying their valuable skills; be creative about where and how to look; learn how to present themselves to potential employers; and keep going, even after repeated rejections. The Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that 2.7 million people who wanted and were available for work hadn’t looked within the last four weeks and were no longer even classified as unemployed.
    So don’t let the headlines fool you into giving up. Four million people get hired every month in the US. You can be one of them.
What do we learn from the passage about the unemployment figures in the US?
选项 A、They clearly indicate how healthy the economy is.
B、They provide the public with the latest information.
C、They warn of the structural problems in the economy.
D、They exclude those who have stopped looking for a job.
答案D
解析 推理判断题。在文章第五段最后一句中，作者给出了美国劳工统计局的数据，并且说明，那些没有工作且可以工作但不去找工作的人已经不再归入失业人员之列，故答案为D)。
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