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Despite a cooling of the economy, high technology companies are still crying out for skilled workers. The Information Technology

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问题     Despite a cooling of the economy, high technology companies are still crying out for skilled workers. The Information Technology Association of America projects that more than 800,000 technology jobs will go unfilled next year. The lack of qualified workers poses a huge threat to the US economy.
    The most commonly cited reason for this state of affairs is that the country’s agrarian-age education system, separated from the needs of the business world, fails to prepare students in the primary and secondary grades for twenty-first-century work. Yet an inadequate and outmoded education system is only part of the problem. A less tangible but equally powerful cause is an antique classification system that divides the workforce into two camps: white-collar knowledge workers and blue-collar manual labourers.
    Blue-collar workers emerged in the United States during the Industrial Age as work migrated from farms to factories. White-collar office workers became a significant class in the twentieth century, outnumbering their blue-collar brethren by mid-century. But the white or blue paradigm has clearly outlived its utility. Corporations increasingly require a new layer of knowledge worker: a highly skilled multi-disciplinarian who combines the mind of the white-collar worker with the hands of the blue-collar employee. Armed with a solid grounding in mathematics and science(physics, chemistry, and biology), these "gold-collar" workers — so named for their contributions to their companies and to the economy, as well as for their personal earning ability — apply that knowledge to technology. Of course, the gold-collar worker already exists in a wide range of jobs across a wide range of businesses: think of the maintenance technician who tests and repairs aircraft systems at American Airlines; the network administrator who manages systems and network operations at P&G; the advanced-manufacturing technician at Intel.
    But until American business recognises these people as a new class of worker, one whose collar is neither blue nor white, demands that schools do a better job of preparing employees for the twenty-first-century workforce will be futile.
According to the passage, what leads to the lack of qualified workers in the US?
选项 A、The disadvantages of the agrarian-age education system.
B、The shortage of work opportunities due to the declining economy.
C、The cooling of American economy.
D、Both the education system and the workforce classification.
答案D
解析 第2段分析了美国专业工人短缺的原因。该段首先指出造成this state of affairs(指美国的专业工人短缺这_情况)最经常被提及的原因就是该国的agrarian—age education system(农业时代的教育体系)。同时在该段第2句中的yet提示美国专业工人短缺还有另一个原因，即an antiqueclassification system(古老的分级体系)。结合上述内容可知，造成美国专业工人缺乏的原因有两个，即the education system和the workforce cl
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