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1 One argument used to support the idea that employment will continue to be the dominant form of work, and that employment w
1 One argument used to support the idea that employment will continue to be the dominant form of work, and that employment w
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2008-12-13
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1 One argument used to support the idea that employment will continue to be the dominant form of work, and that employment will eventually become available for all who want it, is that working time will continue to fall. People in jobs will work fewer hours in the day, fewer days in the week, fewer weeks in the year, and fewer years in a lifetime, than they do now. This will mean that more jobs will be available for more people. This, it is said, is the way we should set about restoring full employment.
2 There is no doubt that something of this kind will happen. The shorter working week, longer holidays, earlier retirement, job-sharing — these and other ways of reducing the amount of time people spend on their jobs — are certainly likely to spread. A mix of parttime paid work and part-time unpaid work is likely to become a much more common work pattern than today, and a flexi-life pattern of work — involving paid employment at certain stages of life, but not at others — will become widespread. But it is surely unrealistic to assume that this will make it possible to restore full employment as the dominant form of work.
3 In the first place, so long as employment remains the overwhelmingly important form of work and source of income for most people, it is very difficult to see how reductions in employees’ working time can take place on a scale sufficiently large and at a pace sufficiently fast to make it possible to share out the available paid employment to everyone who wants it. Such negotiations as there have recently been, for example in Britain and Germany, about the possibility of introducing a 35-hour working week, have highlighted some of the difficulties. But, secondly, if changes of this kind were to take place at a pace and on a scale sufficient to make it possible to share employment among all who wanted it, the resulting situation — in which most people would not be working in their jobs for more than two or three short days a week — could hardly continue to be one in which employment was still regarded as the only truly valid form of work. There would be so many people spending so much of their time on other activities, including other forms of useful work, that the primacy of employment would be bound to be called into question, at least to some extent.
选项
A、support reductions in employees’ working time.
B、indicate employees are unwilling to share jobs.
C、prove the possibility of sharing paid employment.
D、how that employment will lose its dominance.
答案
B
解析
<1>This,it is said,is the way we should set about restoring full employment.注意it is said这一插入成分所传达的信息,即this is the way we should set about restoring full employment这一句话的意思不是本文作者的观点,相反作者持有怀疑。
<2>flexi-life pattern of work具有弹性的工作生活模式
<3>Such negotiations as there have recently been,for example in Britain and Germany, about the possibility of introducing a 35-hour working week,have highlighted some of the difficulties.注意分析此句的语法结构。as there have recently been,for example in Britain and Germany为negotiations的定语从句,as为关系代词(先行词带such限定词时用as而不是that或which)。介词短语about the possibility of introducing a 35-hour working week为negotiations的后置定语。highlight表示“强调”、“使突出”、“使注意力集中于……”。
<4>call...into question对……提出疑问,对……表示,怀疑或异议。
此题为细节理解题。据第3段第1句、第2句可知。第2句中some of the difficulties所指的问题之一就是目前尚难以share out the available paid employment to everyone who wants it 这一问题,而这一问题与employment remains the overwhelmingly important form of work and source of income for most people有关。
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