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Lloyd Slocum was unemployed for 18 months, but like hundreds of thousands of Americans, he’s working part time this holiday shop
Lloyd Slocum was unemployed for 18 months, but like hundreds of thousands of Americans, he’s working part time this holiday shop
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2016-03-01
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Lloyd Slocum was unemployed for 18 months, but like hundreds of thousands of Americans, he’s working part time this holiday shopping season, unloading trucks and stocking shelves for a Bealls store in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
"It gives you something to look forward to," says Slocum, 29.
He plans to use cash to buy his father a Christmas present and hopes to move on to a full-time position with Bealls/Burke’s stores, a Sunbelt chain.
Black Friday, the official start of holiday shopping heat, also kicks off the less-celebrated season of the part-time worker. Retailers(零售商)alone are hiring about 5000,000 seasonal employees this year, most of whom are part time, according to the National Retail Federation. Retailers’ recent shift to opening on Thanksgiving or midnight on Black Friday has intensified the need for part-time workers.
Holiday jobs offer financial and emotional lifeline for many of thenation’s jobless. They also point up a troubling reality: A near-record number of Americans are working part time throughout the year, even though they would prefer full-time jobs. It’s not just because of the sluggish economy(萧条的经济). Economists cite a broader, longer-term shift toward part-time work as employers cut expenses and more precisely match staffing with the ebbs and flows of customer demand.
The number of part-timers who really want full-time positions—so-called involuntary part-time employees—has risen from 8.4 million in January to 8.9 million last month, according to theBureau of Labor Statistics. The total has hovered at 8. 5 million to 9 million since early 2009—double the pre-recession level.
By contrast, the tally of unemployed Americans has stayed flat at about 13.9 million this year and is down from about 15 million in late 2009 as employers have added a modest 2 million or so jobs. The disparity underscores how the nation’s official 9% jobless rate doesn’t fully reflect the toll inflicted by a half-speed economic recovery.
Lloyd Slocum is one of those American who_____ .
选项
A、volunteer to unload trucks and stock shelves
B、seek only full time positions with retailers
C、prefer to be paid in cash to checks
D、offer to do part-time holiday jobs
答案
D
解析
细节题。根据第一段“Lloyd Slocum was unemployed for 18 months,but likehundreds of thousands of Americans,he’s working part time this holiday shopping season,unloadingtrucks and stocking shelves for…”这句不难得出答案为D。在这里顺便提一个常用解题的技巧:题干的表述往往是原文的某个句子的同义替换,如用“…is one of those American who…”替换了原文中“like hundreds of thousands of Americans…”。知道了这种命题规律,对于正确定位和作答是很有好处的。另外错选A的同学在以后解题的过程中要特别提防文字游戏的陷阱。A选项中的“volunteer”一词意为“做自愿者,免费干活”,而根据全文可知这些失业者在得不到全职工作的情况下,不得不先干一些part—time work,聊以生计,也给自己一些精神上的安慰,对于他们来说,干活不拿钱显然不符题意。
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