Employment experts say you’ll have to ask if you want a pay boost.(翻译)
Employment experts say you’ll have to ask if you want a pay boost.(翻译)
Employment experts say you’ll have to ask if you want a pay boost.(翻译)
Passage two 2016年6月英语六级卷一试题
What can be done about mass unemployment? All the wise heads agree: there’re no quick or easy answers. There’s work to be done, but workers aren’t ready to do it—they’re in the wrong places, or they have the wrong skills, Our problems are “structural, ”and will take many years to solve.
But don’t bother asking for evidence that justifies this bleak view. There isn’t any. On the contrary, all the facts suggest that high unemployment in America is the result of inadequate demand. saying that there’re no easy answers sounds wise. But it’s actually foolish: our unemployment crisis could be cured very quickly if we had the intellectual clarity and political will to act. In other words, structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursing real solutions.
The fact is job openings have plunged in every major sector, while the number of workers forced into part-time employment in almost all industries has soared. Unemployment has surged in every major occupational category. Only three states. With a combined population not much larger than that of Brooklyn, have unemployment rates below 5%. So the evidence contradicts the claim that we’re mainly suffering from structural unemployment. Why, then, has this claim become so popular?
Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.
I’ve been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; it was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now. Unemployment cannot be brought down rapidly, declared one 1935 analysis, because the workforce is“unadaptable and untrained. It cannot respond to the opportunities which industry may offer. ”A few years later, a large defense buildup finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy’s needs—and suddenly industry was eager to employ those“unadaptable and untrained”workers.
But now, as then, powerful forces are ideologically opposed to the whole idea of government action on a sufficient scale to jump-start the economy. And that, fundamentally, is why claims that we face huge structural problems have been multiplying: they offer a reason to do nothing about the mass unemployment that is crippling out economy and our society.
So what you need to know is that there’s no evidence whatsoever to back these claims. We aren’t suffering from a shortage of needed skills, We’re suffering from a lack of policy resolve. As I said, structural unemployment isn’t a real problem, it’s an excuse—a reason not to act on America’s problems at a time when action is desperately needed.
51. What does the author think is the root cause of mass unemployment in America?
A)Corporate mismanagement.
B)Insufficient demand.
C)Technological advances.
D)Workers’ slow adaptation.
52. What does the author think of the experts’ claim concerning unemployment?
A)Self-evident.
B)Thought-provoking.
C)Irrational.
D)Groundless.
53. What does the author say helped bring down unemployment during the Great Depression?
A)The booming defense industry.
B)The wise heads’ benefit package.
C)Nationwide training of workers.
D)Thorough restructuring of industries.
54. What has caused claims of huge structural problems to multiply?
A)Powerful opposition to government’s stimulus efforts.
B)Very Serious People’s attempt to cripple the economy.
C)Evidence gathered from many sectors of the industries.
D)Economists’ failure to detect the problems in time.
55. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
A)To testify to the experts’ analysis of America’s problems.
B)To offer a feasible solution to the structural unemployment.
C)To show the urgent need for the government to take action.
D)To alert American workers to the urgency for adaptation.
A.employee
B.employer
C.employment
D.laid-off
Minister Zheng's main purpose is to______
A.describe the difficult employment situation
B.urge his departments nationwide to do help solving the problem
C.warn people of unemployment problem
D.explain the present employment situation
What is the most appropriate title for this passage about China's employment'
A.Tough Year for Job Seekers.
B.College Graduates Challenged by Employment.
C.Too Many Workers Laid Off This Year.
D.Minister Is Hopeful of Employment Prospective.
A.fewer women found employment in the service sector than in factory work
B.the wages paid to workers in the service sector were much lower than those paid in the industrial sector
C.women’s employment in the service sector tended to be much more short—term than in factory work
D.employment in the service sector seemed to have much in common with the unpaid work associated with homemaking
The main reason that boys are seldom trained to follow their father's business is ______.
A.that children also like to have jobs outside
B.that there is a wide choice of employment for children
C.that father do not like to pursue employment at home anymore
D.that children nowadays rarely see their places of work
I think it's high time you made up your mind to choose a(n)().
A、ambition
B、carrier
C、employment
D、career
A.come off
B.come around
C.come up
D.come through
Degree of the worker's contribution is greater when ______.
A.a factory possesses more experts
B.a factory has many small production lines
C.workers enjoy more freedom
D.workers work at a large production line
【B4】 its economy continues to recover, the U.S. is increasingly becoming a nation of part-timers and temporary workers. This " 【B5】 " work force is the most important 【B6】 in American business today, and it is 【B7】 changing the relationship between people and their jobs. The phenomenon provides a way for companies to remain globally competitive 【B8】 avoiding market cycles and the growing burdens 【B9】 by employment rules, healthcare costs and pension plans. For workers it can mean an end to the security, benefits and sense of 【B10】 that came from being a loyal employee.
【B1】
A.swarm
B.stride
C.separate
D.slip