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The rise of "temp" work has further magnified the decreasing rights and alienation of the worker. It is common corporate practic

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问题     The rise of "temp" work has further magnified the decreasing rights and alienation of the worker. It is common corporate practice to phase out full time employees and hire temporary workers to take on more workload in less time. When facing a pressing deadline, a corporation may pay $15 to $20 per hour for a temp worker, but the temp worker will only see $7 or $8 of that money. The rest goes to the temp agency, which is usually a corporate chain, such as Kelly Services, that blatantly (公然地) makes its profits out of other people’s labor. This increases profits of the corporations because they can increase a workload, get rid of the employee when they’re finished, and not worry about paying benefits or unemployment for that employee.
    "I have had to work with temps, a few times in my current position, and the workers only want one thing—a full time job with benefits. We really wanted to hire one temp I was working with, but we could not offer her a full time job because it would have been a breach in our contract with the temp agency that employed her," said an operation manager.
    To hire a temp full time, a corporation would have had to pay the agency over a thousand dollars. Through this practice and policy, the temp agency locks its temporary workers into a horrible new form of servitude (奴役) from which the worker cannot break free.
    Furthermore, corporate powers push workers to take on bigger workloads, work longer hours, and accept less benefit by instilling a paranoia (多疑症) in their workforce. The capitalist, bosses assume dishonesty, disloyalty, and laziness amongst workers, and they breed a sense of guilt and fear through their assumptions. Where guilt doesn’t seep in, bitterness, anger, and depression take over. The highest priorities of Big Business are to increase profits and limit liabilities. Personal relations and human needs are last on their list of priorities. So what we see is a huge mass of people who are alienated, dis-empowered, overworked, mentally and physically ill and who spend the vast majority of their time and energy on their basic survival. They are denied any chance to really "live", because they are forced to make profits for the capitalists in power.
Which of the following could serve as the best title for the passage?
选项 A、Temp Workers and Their Work.
B、How Temp Workers Are Exploited.
C、Temp Agency—the Wicked Master.
D、Temp Work—the Modern Servitude.
答案D
解析 考查题目标题需通读全文。本文通过描述公司和临时工中介公司对临时工的剥削，表明临时工的悲惨境遇，末段最后两句对此作了总结，由此可见，选项D为本文主题。选项A只概括了临时工的工作，但没有突出临时工的境遇，不能解释本文较深层的意义；选项B中的临时工中介公司并不是本文的主题，只是雇用临时工制度中的一部分；本文并没有详细说明临时工受剥削的方武，而是对临时工制度作了全面的分析，因此选项C也不恰当。
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