首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Despite a cooling of the economy, high technology companies are still crying out for skilled workers. The Information Technology
Despite a cooling of the economy, high technology companies are still crying out for skilled workers. The Information Technology
admin
2015-09-30
53
问题
Despite a cooling of the economy, high technology companies are still crying out for skilled workers. The Information Technology Association of America projects that more than 800 000 technology jobs will go unfilled next year. The lack of qualified workers poses a huge threat to the U. S. economy.
The most commonly cited reason for this state of affairs is that the country’s agrarian-age education system, separated from the needs of the business world, fails to prepare students in the primary and secondary grades for twenty-first-century work. Yet an inadequate and outmoded education system is only part of the problem. A less tangible but equally powerful cause is an antique classification system that divides the workforce into two camps: white-collar knowledge workers and blue-collar manual laborers.
Blue-collar workers emerged in the United States during the Industrial Age as work migrated from farms to factories. White-collar office workers became a significant class in the twentieth century, outnumbering their blue-collar brethren by mid-century. But the white or blue paradigm has clearly outlived its utility. Corporations increasingly require a new layer of knowledge workers a highly skilled multi-disciplinarian who combines the mind of the white-collar worker with the hands of the blue-collar employee. Armed with a solid grounding in mathematics and science (physics, chemistry and biology), these "gold-collar" workers—so named for their contributions to their companies and to the economy, as well as for their personal earning ability—apply that knowledge to technology. Of course, the gold-collar worker already exists in a wide range of jobs across a wide range of businesses; think of the maintenance technician who tests and repairs aircraft systems at American Airlines: the network administrator who manages systems and network operations at P&G: the advanced-manufacturing technician at Intel.
But until American business recognizes these people as a new class of worker, one whose collar is neither blue nor white, demands that schools do a better job of preparing employees for the twenty-first-century workforce will be futile. Certainly, polytechnic high schools, colleges, and universities have made heroic efforts to teach workers new skills. But because many people see these initiatives as primarily training blue-collar workers, adequate funds are not invested in such programs, leaving them short of state-of-the-art tools and experienced teachers. And because gold-collar workers need to constantly update their skills to stay current with emerging technology, learning must be a continuous process, one that is funded by companies as well as by taxpayers.
According to the passage the lack of qualified workers______.
选项
A、makes a cooling of the economy
B、decreases the costs of high technology companies
C、emphasizes the importance of unfilled jobs
D、hinders the development of U. S. economy
答案
D
解析
本题的设计旨在考查考生对第一段细节的理解。第一段最后一句指出:缺少合格的工人极大地威胁着美国的经济,这正是D项妨碍美国经济发展的意思,所以该项为正确答案。A答案错在,原文第一句话指出:尽管经济形势不好,高科技企业依然迫切需要熟练工人,这是一个转折关系,而不是缺少熟练工人使经济形势不好,这是一个因果关系。B项的内容没有提及。C项错在文章并没有提到空缺的工作职位的重要性,更谈不上强调。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/ipWO777K
0
在职攻硕英语联考
相关试题推荐
A、Tutoringchildren.B、Workingatanimalshelters.C、Servingasamuseumguide.D、Donatingmoneytocharity.D“下面的项目中哪一个不属于义务劳动?
Youshouldlookfordaycarecentersthatprovide...,alongwithasafeand______(2words).
Manypeoplearedisturbedbythegeneticdiversityofcancers—aninevitableconsequenceofrandomevolution.Cancertherapies【
Researcherssaythat_____cigarettesisnecessarytodramaticallyreducethechanceofcardiovascularproblems.
A、Improvingchildren’snutritionintheircountry.B、Providingtheirpeoplewithcleanerconditions.C、Improvinghealthcarefor
______theirdifferences,theyareunitedbythecommondesiretotransformtheirpersonalcommitmentintopublicleadership.
Althoughherefusedtoactonmysuggestion,hehadtoadmitthat______whatIsaid.
Scholarsandstudentshavealwaysbeengreattravelers."Academicmobility"isnowoftenstatedasafundamentalnecessityfore
Itisdifficulttoimaginewhatlifewouldbelikewithoutmemory.Themeaningsofthousandsofeverydayperceptions,thebases【
Thefoodweeatseemstohaveprofoundeffectsonourhealth.Althoughsciencehasmadeenormousstepsinmakingfoodmorefitt
随机试题
SM4算法是国家密码管理局于2012年3月21日发布的一种分组密码算法,在我国商用密码体系中,SM4主要用于数据加密。SM4算法的分组长度和密钥长度分别为________。
在数据管理技术的发展阶段中,人工管理阶段与文件系统阶段的主要区别在于文件系统的()。
巴戟天原植物所属的科是()。
港口与航道工程总承包一级资质标准要求企业经考核或培训合格的中级工以上技术工人(含施工船员)不少于()人。
下列关于成本的表述中,不正确的是()。
机会成本是()原则的应用。
教育培养学生的过程就是德育的过程。(淄博文昌湖)()
分析何种因素影响受众选择媒介的动机。(人大2011年研)
下列叙述中正确的是()。
软件生命周期是指
最新回复
(
0
)