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  3. Ours has become a society of employees. A hundred years or so ago only one of every five Americans at work was employed, i. e.,

Ours has become a society of employees. A hundred years or so ago only one of every five Americans at work was employed, i. e.,

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问题     Ours has become a society of employees. A hundred years or so ago only one of every five Americans at work was employed, i. e., worked for somebody else. Today only one out of five is not employed but working for himself. And when fifty years ago "being employed" meant working as a factory laborer or as a farmhand, the employee of today is increasingly a middle-class person with a substantial formal education, holding a professional or management job requiring intellectual and technical skills. Indeed, two things have characterized American society during these last fifty years; middle-class and upper-class employees have been the fastest-growing groups in our working population—growing so fast that the industrial worker, the oldest child of the Industrial Revolution, has been losing in numerical importance despite the expansion of industrial production.
    Yet you will find little if anything written on what it is to be an employee. You can find a great deal of very dubious advice on how to get a job or how to get a promotion. You can also find a good deal of work in a chosen field, whether it be the mechanist’s trade or bookkeeping. Every one of these trades requires different skills, sets different standards, and requires a different preparation. Yet they all have employeeship in common. And increasingly, especially in the large business or in government, employeeship is more important to success than the special professional knowledge or skill. Certainly more people fail because they do not know the requirements of being an employee than because they do not adequately possess the skills of their trade; the higher you climb the ladder, the more you get into administrative or executive work, and the greater the emphasis on ability to work within the organization rather than on technical abilities or professional knowledge.
The word "dubious" (Line 2, Para. 2) most probably means
选项 A、valuable
B、useful
C、doubtful
D、helpful
答案C
解析 根据题干关键词dubious定位到第二段第一、二句Yet you will find little if anything written on what it is to be an employee. You can find a great deal of very dubious advice on how to get a job or how to get a promotion. (然而你很少会找到写怎样才能做一个好的雇员的那种书，你会看到很多值得怀疑的建议，告诉你怎样找到工作，怎样提升你自己的职位。)根据上下文可以判断C正确。
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