MOCK EXAM.-EXAMEN MODELO Highest unemployment rate in decades!

Module 7

Official figures show October was the 22nd consecutive month of unemployment growth, 10% boltonchronicle.com
riday !th "ovember 200# 1$.1$ %M& &he '( unemploy) ment rate has gone beyond 10% for the first time since the early 1#*0s. &his shows the difficult situation for the wor+ing class in the world,s biggest economy. Monthly figures from the '( department of labour revealed that employers- decision of cutting 1#0,000 .obs in October was worse than e/pected. &he unemployment rate rose to 10.2% from (eptember,s #.*%, which is its highest level since 0pril 1#*1. 2all (treet analysts had e/pected .ob losses of closer to 173,000 and were hoping that the percentage rate of unemployment would remain in single figures. &his information came out before the opening of the financial mar+ets in "ew 4or+ but stoc+ e/change mar+ets in 5urope immediately deteriorated. 6espite the good results in the mar+et yesterday, this increase of the unemployment rate will perhaps throw cold water on that. Financial Times editor 7ete 8romberg described the double)digit rate as 9really depressing9 and said he did not predict any move by the ederal :eserve to raise interest rates before the early part of 2011. 'nemployment has been 7resident Obama-s main concern since the beginning of his 7residency. &he ;773,000 million <=31!,000 million> economic stimulus pac+age was a clear attempt to start activity. 0nother important decision was to promote public pro.ects all over the '(0 with the intent of creating .obs. ?onsidering the unemployment figures in October, these measures have proved ineffective. &he sectors with the most .ob losses were construction, where employers cut !2,000 .obs in October, and industries, where !1,000 positions disappeared. (M5s1 lost $0,000 .obs and in the free time industry 17,000 people lost their .obs. 8ut education, health and professional services showed an increase in employment. 5conomists generally view unemployment as a slow indicator that tends to be one of the last factors to improve as a recession comes to an end.

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1. 2hat has not happened in the last 20 or 10 years@ 2. 2hy was this unemployment rise a surprise to e/perts@ 3. Aow did this unemployment rate really affect 5uropean stoc+ mar+ets@ 4. 2hat was the real conseBuence of Obama-s public pro.ect programme@ 5. 2hat types of .obs have not been affected by the unemployment rise@ Text A 6uring the good days of economic growth people used 11).. spend money on new cars, home appliances, holidays, etc. 8ut the present crisis has 12).. provo+ed partly 13).. a dramatic fall of consumer spending. Cn 14).. of 15).. money on things 16) .. they don-t really need, people prefer to save it. Text B My wife was loo+ing at 11). on the mirror and saidD Im getting old; its a 12). that I dont look young any longer. When I was much younger I didnt 13). to wear make-up, so I didnt spend any time making 14). up. C always as+ her not 15). wear so much ma+e)up because .ust a 16). ma+e)up is enough for her. C tell herD E 17). beautiful you are, 6arlingF 4ou-re the 18). beautiful woman in the world.G

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Schools in Spain are free from age 4 on. Enrollment for September generally begins around March. If its too late and the school you want your child to get into is full, the authorities are always required to find an opening at a public school for your child. There are three types of schools, public, pri ate, and mi!ed "#concertada$%, meaning the schools recei es some go ernment funding, and you pay less than you would at a pri ate school. &ote that for public and concertada schools, the go ernment has a say in the education. 'or e!ample, in (arcelona in )**+, a pri ate school might cost you +** euros,month with classes taught in -astellano and English instead of -atal.n, a concertada might cost )+* euros,month with /*0 of the classes in -atalan, a public school is free with 1**0 of the classes in -atal.n.