Goolsbee, now a professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, said the rising number of Americans out of work forever paints a troubling picture about the recovery (恢复).

“If we are on path to only be two-thirds recovered,” Goolsbee wrote, “and then have millions of businesses closed down and the jobs there lost fast, there will be years for us to try to get back onto the path we were on before.”

And those everlasting job losses will influence the economy. People out of work may cutback spending or even stop it. They are at risk of falling behind on car payments, credit card bills and bank loan (贷款). Those risks are magnified by the fact that the government has so far failed to provide additional economic recovery policies (政策) — even though the US economy is in great need of them.

“Good insurance (保险) policies for people out of work have helped them pay the loan much more easily,” Principal’s Shah wrote, “but with everlasting job losses clearly rising and still no sign of an additional economic recovery package, the trouble will become more widespread and obvious.”

The hope is that those recognized as jobless at present will in the end get a job somewhere else. Even though some restaurants, shops and small businesses have shut down, new companies are opening each day here and there. But there is a time limit at play because the time of continuously out of job influences the chances of getting another job. “The longer you’re out of the job market,” said PNC’s Faucher, “the more difficult it becomes to find a new one.” Many Americans who had a job loss or had a too long vacation without any payment are eagerly looking forward to another job.

【小题1】What does the underlined word “magnified” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Reduced.	B．Enlarged.
C．Avoided.	D．Unchanged.

【小题2】What’s Shah’s attitude towards the government’s present economy policies?

A．Supportive.	B．Confused.
C．Disappointed.	D．Uninterested.

【小题3】What can we learn about the Americans out of work?

A．Losing jobs gets them out of the job market.

B．They have more opportunities to have vacations.

C．They successfully get offers from new companies.

D．Losing jobs for long makes it harder to find a new one.

【小题4】What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．The jobless usually spend less.

B．Insurance companies offer necessary loans.

C．More job losses suggest a dark economy future.

D．The economy recovery depends on the government.