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This week, a gaggle of girls in hot pants and miniskirts will go on a long and highly publicized strike against their employer.

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问题    This week, a gaggle of girls in hot pants and miniskirts will go on a long and highly publicized strike against their employer. They will win their case, and in so doing, win a huge battle for working women everywhere—ushering in a new push for equal pay for women and striking a victorious blow for women’ s rights the world over. But in real life, the news isn’ t nearly that inspiring.
   On Wednesday, the U.S. senate failed to end debate on the paycheck fairness act. The so-called "commonsense law" would have strengthened anti-discriminatory law put in place by the Equal Pay Act, protected employees from being fired for asking about their colleagues’ compensation, and created negotiation skills training programs for girls and women.
   The American Association of University Women recently compared men and women with the same education, same grades, same kinds of jobs, and made the same life choices and found that women earn 5% less in the first year out of school. Ten years later, even if the women gave up having children, they earn 12% less. In another study, Catalyst found that female first-year MBA students earn $4,600 less than their male peers in their first job. In fact, in the 47 years since the Equal Pay Act was first adopted, the pay gap has decreased from more than 40 cents to just under 25 cents. We are literally halfway there.
   The republican senators voting against the act, said the act would have been bad for business. And they have been right, but not for the stated reasons. This recession is frequently called the "mancession" and that it has led to 36% increase in the number of families depending on women’s earning in the last year alone, sure, those businesses may be saving money by paying women less, but is it really in the interest of the American public to allow them to save at the expense of families? At 77 cents on the dollar, women will lose an average of $431,000 in pay over 40 years. Those losses could have been spent wisely. When you consider that women reinvest 90% of their income into their own community and family (just 30% to 40% that men invest), the impact could have been powerful. How is that for the common sense?
In Paragraph 3, the sentence "we are literally halfway there" means_____.
选项 A、we are preparing to do something
B、we will win the battle for working women everywhere
C、we really have made some progress in decreasing pay gap
D、we are on the way to the scene of the strike
答案D
解析 根据题干关键词定位到文章第三段最后一句We are literally halfway there。含义题的解题在于读懂句子之间的逻辑关系。该句上文用大量数字论证了男女在收入差距上逐渐减少的具体表现，而本句总结这一表现。通过推断可知，该句指出人们正在为同工同酬努力。D项“我们正在参与罢工的路上”，即“我们还要继续罢工，因为同工同酬还未实现”，符合题意。A项“我们正准备做一些事情”、B项“我们将为各地的职场女性争取胜利” 和C项“我们确实在减少工资差距方面取得了一些进展”均不符合题意，故选D。
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