1. A lot of cases of age discrimination are not found because
A. age discrimination law was just introduced recently.
B. other discriminated groups don't sue except the whites.
C. age discrimination cases are in large quantity and it is difficult to detect all of them.
D. many discriminated people don't sue and costs of a lawsuit outweigh potential benefits.
2. The labor market experiment in Boston shows that
A. younger male applicants are more likely to be hired than their female counterparts.
B. age discrimination is quite common in hiring process.
C. the author collected information by interviewing female applicants.
D. female applicants who are 50 years old will never have a chance to get a job.
3. What may lead to the increase of discrimination lawsuits during times of high unemployment?
A. The increase of age discrimination.
B. The decrease of age discrimination.
C. The decrease of opportunity cost to lawsuits.
D. The increase of opportunity cost to lawsuits, .
4. From the last paragraph, we learn that
A. employers could specify the ages of people they want to hire in the past.
B, all employers recruited workers through advertisement in the past.
C. legislation prohibiting discrimination can't free old workers from age discrimination.
D. the recent proposed congressional legislation is ineffective.
5. The author is __ when he analyzes the age discrimination issue.
A. pessimistic
B. partial
C. objective
D. doubtful
【答案解析】1.[D]因果推断题。第2段最后一句讲到许多年龄歧视案件没有被发现，第3段分析了其原因。第3段末句指出“因为诉讼费远远超过潜在的利益”，故选D。A在文章首段便提及，但不与题干构成因果关系;第3段指出中层管理者也有可能提起诉讼，故B也错;C项文中没有提到。
2.[B]细节判断题。根据Boston定位到第4段。该段首句指出年龄歧视起码在低级别的职位存在，通过接下来的实验调查可知，年龄歧视在招聘过程中很普遍，故选8。该实验没有对男应聘者和女应聘者进行对比，故A没有原文依据;文中指出 “我’’只是发出上千份虚假的应聘简历，故C错误;最后一句指出低于50岁的申请人，收到面试电话的几率比年龄较大的申请人高40%，故D与原文表述不符。
3.[C]细节推断题。根据high unemployment定位到第5段最后两句。根据最后两旬可知，高失业时期，诉讼机会成本低于好景时的机会成本，因此可推断高失业期诉讼机会成本较低可导致诉讼案件增加，C正确。A、B都没有提到关键词cost，D与原文的意思相反，故都排除。
4.[A]细节判断题。由最后一段第l句可知A正确。第l句指出过去的招聘广告会详述年龄要求，但并不能说明所有的雇主都会通过广告招聘工人，故8错误;文中并没有提到年龄歧视法案是否将年老的工人解救出来，故C没有原文根据;D与该段最后两句表述有出入。
5.[C]观点态度题。第l段讲到年龄歧视情况很多不被发现，接下来分析原因，讲到立法效果不明显等这些都是事实及现状，作者没有带自己的主观色彩，故对年龄歧视问题的分析是客观的，C正确。
