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Everyone complains that corporate America is【C1】______to hire additional workers. Far【C2】______attention has been paid to the fl
Everyone complains that corporate America is【C1】______to hire additional workers. Far【C2】______attention has been paid to the fl
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2014-10-24
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问题
Everyone complains that corporate America is【C1】______to hire additional workers. Far【C2】______attention has been paid to the flip side of the jobless recovery: the【C3】______improvement in American productivity.
When the economy【C4】______in 2008, there was little of the fall in labor productivity that normally【C5】______a recession, and this was not just a one-off "batting average" effect(in which average productivity rises because the worst performers are fired). Rather, it was a productivity boost that has continued【C6】______expert predictions that workers can only be【C7】______so hard for a short while.
In the third quarter of 2011, American labor productivity was 2.3% higher than in the same period a year earlier. Manufacturing productivity in that quarter rose by 2. 9% compared with a year earlier. America’s productivity growth has been more【C8】______than most other rich countries’—a feat【C9】______to its flexible labor market and a culture of enterprise.
Two things could keep productivity rising. First, workers are terrified of losing their jobs. This makes it easier to persuade them to put in extra hours or【C10】______new tasks. Second, tough times are forcing firms to【C11】______every brain cell to become more efficient. Sealed Air, for example, has made numerous incremental tweaks, such as【C12】______a machine that makes absorbent pads for supermarket meat trays so that its output increased from 400 units per hour three years ago to 550—with the same number of workers.
The【C13】______of firms to invest in such enhancements has varied【C14】______Some would rather hoard cash or buy back their own shares【C15】______spend it on more efficient machinery or information technology. Yet there are【C16】______that leading industrial firms are starting to increase their capital spending, says Jeff Sprague of Vertical Research Partners, a research outfit. In particular, he has noticed firms investing in "debottlenecking" which,【C17】______its name suggests, means removing hold-ups in production processes, sometimes with an additional production line.
【C18】______short, the recession has forced American firms to become more muscular. This should help them【C19】______when the good times return. It should also give them an edge【C20】______foreign rivals.
【C17】
选项
A、what
B、that
C、which
D、as
答案
D
解析
空格处的这句话是一个长难句,意思比较难理解,前半句活的意思是说某位研究者发现公司在“debottlenecking”上开始投资,后半句是对于debottlenecking的一个解释,它的意思是指“消除公司在生产过程中的阻碍”。首先因为空格前面有一个关系词which,因此这里不可能再填一个which或者that这样的关系词。而填what也不符合语法,因为空格处这个短语在这里既不是一个主语从句,也不是一个宾语从句。因此,正确答案应该选[D]。as its name suggests是一个常用的插入语,:卷思是“顾名思义”。
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