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Despite the stagnancy of the economy, high-technology companies are still crying out for skilled workers. The Information Techno

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问题     Despite the stagnancy 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【B1】______ next year. The lack of qualified workers【B2】______ a huge threat to the US economy.
    The most commonly cited reason for this state of affairs is that the country’s agrarian-age (农耕时代) education system fails to prepare students in the【B3】______ and secondary grades for twenty first century work. Yet an【B4】______ and outmoded education system is only part of the problem. A less tangible but【B5】______ powerful cause is an antique classification system that【B6】______ the workforce into two camps: white-collar knowledge workers and blue-collar【B7】______ laborers.
    Blue-collar workers emerged in the United States during the Industrial Age as work【B8】______ from farms to factories.【B9】______ .Corporations increasingly require a new layer of knowledge worker: a highly skilled multi-disciplined talent, who combines the mind of the white-collar worker with a solid grounding in mathematics and science (physics, chemistry, and biology). These "gold-collar" workers--【B10】______ --apply that knowledge to technology.
   【B11】______ . The maintenance technician who tests and repairs aircraft systems at American Airlines; the network administrator who manages systems and network operations at Procter ＆ Gamble; the engineering technologist who assists scientists at Sandia National Laboratories; and the advanced-manufacturing technician at Intel can all be regarded as gold-collar workers.
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答案White-collar office workers became a significant class in the 20th century, outnumbering the blue-collar workers by mid-century
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