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A、They went to the Congress to ask for raising wages. B、They went around Congress to block raising wages. C、They formed a labor
A、They went to the Congress to ask for raising wages. B、They went around Congress to block raising wages. C、They formed a labor
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2023-01-30
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问题
For the first time in more than 6 years, the unemployment rate is below 6%. Over the past four and a half years, our businesses have created over 10 million new jobs. That is the longest uninterrupted stretch of private sector job creation in our history.
But while our businesses are creating jobs at the fastest pace since the ’90s, the typical family hasn’t seen a raise since the ’90s. Folks are feeling as squeezed as ever. That’s why I’m going to keep pushing policies that will create more jobs faster and raise wages faster, policies like rebuilding our infrastructure, making sure women are paid fairly, and making it easier for young people to pay off their student loans.
But one of the simplest and fastest ways to start helping folks get ahead is by raising the minimum wage. Right now, a worker on the federal minimum wage earns $7.25 an hour. It’s time to raise that to $10.10 an hour. Raising the federal minimum wage to ten dollars and ten cents an hour would benefit 28 million American workers.
But Congress hasn’t voted to raise the minimum wage in seven years. Seven years. And when it got a vote earlier this year, Republicans flat-out voted "no". That’s why since the first time I asked Congress to give America a raise, 13 states, 21 cities and D.C. have gone around Congress to raise their workers’ wages. Five more states have minimum wage initiatives on the ballot next month. More companies are choosing to raise their workers’ wages. A recent survey shows that a majority of small business owners support a gradual increase to ten-ten an hour, too. And I’ve done what I can on my own by requiring federal contractors to pay their workers at least ten-ten an hour.
On Friday, a coalition of citizens including business leaders, working moms, labor unions, and more than 65 mayors told Republicans in Congress to stop blocking a raise for millions of hard-working Americans. Because we believe that in America, nobody who works full-time should ever have to raise a family in poverty. And I’m going to keep up this fight until we win. Because America deserves a raise right now. And America should forever be a place where your hard work is rewarded.
19.According to the speaker, what is one of the fastest ways to benefit people?
20.What has the speaker already done on his own?
21.What did the group of citizens do on Friday?
选项
A、They went to the Congress to ask for raising wages.
B、They went around Congress to block raising wages.
C、They formed a labor union to support raising wages.
D、They told the Republicans to support raising wages.
答案
D
解析
选项都是以They开头。且时态都是一般过去时,故问题可能与他们过去的动作有关。录音提到一群市民周五联合起来要求议会中的共和党人 (Republicans)停止对提高工资议案进行阻碍。D项的support raising wages是原文stop blocking a raise的同义替换。市民们并不是去议会要求提高工资,而是告诉议会不要阻碍提高工资的议案,因此A项错误。市民们是赞成工资上涨的,并没有叫议会反对提高工资,因此B项错误;C项“市民成立工会支持工资上涨”没有在录音中提及。
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