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The American economy is growing, according to the most recent statistics, at the high rate of 7% , and is in the middle of the l

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问题     The American economy is growing, according to the most recent statistics, at the high rate of 7% , and is in the middle of the largest peacetime expansion in American history. We read in the newspapers that practically everyone who wants a job can get one. Microsoft is running advertisements in the New York Times practically begging Congress to issue more visas for foreign computer and information technology workers.
    In this environment, it is shocking that one group of Americans, people with disabilities, have such a high level of unemployment: 30% are not employed—the same percentage as when the Americans with Disabilities Act became law. Not only did their employment and labor earnings fall during the recession of the early 1990s, but employment and earnings continued to fall during the long economic expansion that followed. Many of these people are skilled professionals who are highly marketable in today’s economy.     Part of the problem is discrimination, and part recent court rulings favoring employers in ADA lawsuits. Discrimination against people with disabilities is, unfortunately, alive and well, despite the legal prohibitions against discrimination in hiring people with disabilities. 79% of disabled people who are unemployed cite discrimination in the workplace and lack of transportation as major factors that prevent them from working; studies have also shown that people with disabilities who find jobs earn less than their co-workers, and are less likely to be promoted.
    Unfavorable court rulings have not been helpful, either. Research by law professor Ruth Colker of Ohio State University has shown that in the eight years after the ADA went into effect, employer-defendants prevailed in more than 93% of the cases decided by trial. Of the cases appealed, employers prevailed 84% of the time. Robert Burgdorf, Jr. , who helped draft the ADA, has written, " legal analysis has proceeded quite a way down the wrong road. " Disability activists and other legal scholars point out that Congress intended the ADA as a national mandate for the ending of discrimination against people with disabilities. Instead, what has occurred, in the words of one writer, is that the courts "have narrowed the scope of the law, redefined ’disability’ , raised the price of access to justice and generally deemed disability discrimination as not worthy of serious remedy. "
    But perhaps the greatest single problem is the federal government itself, where laws and regulations designed to help disabled people actually provide an economic disincentive to work. As Sen. Edward Kennedy wrote, "the high unemployment rate among people receiving federal disability benefits is not because their federal benefits programs have ’ front doors that are too big’ , but because they have ’ back doors that are too small’. "
The advertisement made by Microsoft shows that______.
选项 A、a great number of jobs have been created in the U. S.
B、foreign workers are favored over domestic workers
C、working visa is very hard to be issued to foreign workers
D、many domestic workers will lose their jobs to foreigners
答案A
解析 根据题干信号词The advertisement made by Microsoft可回文定位到首段第三句Microsoft is running advertisements in the New York Times practically begging Congress to issue more visas for foreign computer and information technology workers(微软正在《纽约时报》刊登广告，几乎是乞求国会为外国的计算机和IT工作人员颁发更多签证)，但鉴于例证题的解题思路是跳出例子本身，在其上文或下文(尤其上文)中寻找线索，考生可锁定本段第二句为本题目“题眼”：“We read in the newspapers that practically everyone who wants a job can get one(我们在报纸上看到实际上每个想要工作的人都可以得到工作)”，无疑本句即是“微软做广告”这一例子所证明(show)的对象。比对选项可知，A项“在美国已有大量工作岗位被创造出来”与原文“每个想要工作的人都可以得到工作”是对应改写，因此正确。
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