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Though experts were quick to declare that the election of Barack Obama represented the emergence of a "post-racial" America, the

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问题     Though experts were quick to declare that the election of Barack Obama represented the emergence of a "post-racial" America, the macro-economy has provided a corrective. During the American economy’s last deep recession, in the early 1980s, black unemployment soared to twice the level among whites, passing 21％ in 1983. And according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, time has changed little. The current unemployment rate among black Americans is almost 16％; among whites the figure is under 10％.
    The widening gap between blacks and whites persists across demographic lines. The current "mances-sion" has hit male-dominated professions hardest. But white men face a relatively mild unemployment rate of just over 10％ compared with over 18％ among black men. For the worst-off, the data are catastrophic. Among young black men without a high-school diploma, nearly half have no jobs. These rates are based on a labor-force number which excludes those in prison; if there were not five times as many blacks behind bars as whites, the figures would look even worse.
    There is no shortage of explanations for the gap. States with weaker labor markets, like South Carolina and Michigan, also tend to have larger black populations than low-unemployment states like Iowa and Montana. Predominantly black neighborhoods are often a long way from where jobs are concentrated, in largely white suburbs, so those without cars cannot get to them.
    Blacks are also at a disadvantage when it comes to relying on friends and family connections to find jobs; there is not the same network of family businesses that whites and Latinos have. Some studies have found that this factor may explain as much as 70％ of the difference in black and white unemployment rates, and may also explain the difference between black and Latino jobless rates. Among young men, for instance, the near-20％ Hispanic unemployment rate is much closer to that for whites (17％) than blacks (30％).
    What is clear is that the unemployment problem in black communities will not end with the recession. The employment-to-population ratio among black adults is only just above 50％, and it is closer to a shocking 40％ for young black men; for adult whites it is 59％. Black workers are also unemployed for about five weeks longer, on average, than the rest of the population. Some 45％ of unemployed blacks have been out of work for 27 weeks or longer, compared with just 36％ of unemployed whites. That means continued loss of skills, and a longer and harder road back into the workforce.
According to Paragraph 1, the macro-economy shows that racism ________.
选项 A、fails to disappear with time
B、caused the last recession
C、is more serious than before
D、leads to high unemployment rate
答案A
解析 根据题干可直接定位到第一段。第一段交代了黑人较高的失业率状况并没有因为奥巴马当选总统而好转，可知就业中的种族主义并没有随着时间的流逝而消失，A项“未能随时间的过去而消失”与之相符，故为正确答案。第一段并没有对经济衰退的原因和高失业率的原因进行分析，B项“引发上一次经济衰退”和D项“导致高失业率”都属于无中生有，为强加的因果关系，故错误；文中只是对失业情况的历史和现状进行对比，没有对种族歧视问题进行对比，所以得不出more serious的结论，C项也不对。
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