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
•Read the article below about employment situation, and the questions on the opposite page. •For each question 13--18, mark one
•Read the article below about employment situation, and the questions on the opposite page. •For each question 13--18, mark one
admin
2010-01-22
89
问题
•Read the article below about employment situation, and the questions on the opposite page.
•For each question 13--18, mark one letter (A, B, C, or D) on your Answer Sheet for the answer you choose.
Employment Situation
Opinion polls are now beginning to show that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to say. This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the available employment more widely.
But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the future work. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm? Should we not rather encourage many ways for self-respecting people to work? Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer? Should we not aim to revive the household and the neighborhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centers of production and work? The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people’s work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed. This seems a daunting thought.
But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom.
Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people’s homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people commuted longer distances to their places of employment until, eventually, many people’s work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they live.
Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In preindustrial times, men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community. Now it became customary for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and families to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations still assume this norm today, and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between the sexes. It was not only women whose work status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were excluded--a problem now, as more teenagers become frustrated at school and more retired people want to live active lives. All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some efforts and resources away from the idealist goal creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.
What is the main idea of the passage?
选项
A、Employment became widespread in the 17th and 18th centuries.
B、Unemployment will remain a major problem for industrialized nations.
C、The industrial age may now he coming to an end.
D、Some efforts and resources should be devoted to helping more people cope with the problem of unemployment.
答案
D
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/vgsO777K
本试题收录于:
BEC中级阅读题库BEC商务英语分类
0
BEC中级阅读
BEC商务英语
相关试题推荐
Readthetextbelowaboutcustomercare.Inmostofthelines(41-52)thereisoneextraword.Itiseithergrammaticallyincorr
ReadthefollowingarticleaboutJapanesestyleofmanagementandthequestions.Foreachquestion(15-20),markoneletter(A,
ReadthefollowingarticleaboutJapanesestyleofmanagementandthequestions.Foreachquestion(15-20),markoneletter(A,
Readthetextbelowaboutamanagementtrainingcourse.Inmostofthelines(41-52)thereisoneextraword.Itiseithergramm
Readthearticlebelowabouttherelationshipbetweentradeanddevelopment.ChoosethecorrectwordtofilleachgapfromA,B,
Readthetextbelowabouthowtoorderproducts.Inmostofthelines(41-52)thereisoneextraword.Itiseithergrammaticall
Readthetextbelowabouthowtoorderproducts.Inmostofthelines(41-52)thereisoneextraword.Itiseithergrammaticall
Readthetextbelowabouthowtoorderproducts.Inmostofthelines(41-52)thereisoneextraword.Itiseithergrammaticall
Readthefollowingarticleaboutgeneralmanagersandthequestionsontheoppositepage.Eachquestionhasyoursuggestedansw
Readthearticlebelowaboutamethodoflearninglanguagesforbusinesspeople.Choosethebestwordfromtheoppositepageto
随机试题
患者,男,20岁。反复发作胸闷,气急,咳嗽1年。查体:两肺满布哮鸣音。应首先考虑的是
风热咳嗽的宜选用方
男,30岁。慢性肾炎,浮肿少尿1月,呕吐3天,血压160/90mmHg,两肺底散在水泡音,颈静脉怒张,BUN40mmol/L,血钾6.5mmol/L,最宜采用()
下列关于特殊管理药品的说法,正确的是()
A.<130mmol/LB.120~140mmol/LC.130~150mmol/LD.150~180mmoL/LE.>150mmol/L.婴儿腹泻低渗性脱水的血钠浓度为()
估价不同于定价。估价只是为当事人提供公平可信的价格参考依据,并不取决当事人的民事权利,而定价往往是当事人的行为。房地产的()应由当事人自己决定,当事人出于某种目的,可以使其成交价格高于或低于正常价格。
奈普科技公司系江海市大型股份制企业。市国税局稽查局对奈普科技公司的纳税情况依法实施检查,发现奈普科技公司2007年6月至12月存在未按规定申报纳税的情况。市国税局稽查局根据税收法律、法规和有关规定,作出《税务处理决定书》,责令奈普科技公司补缴税款3260.
下面是一位高中英语教师在进行语法教学时所展示的课件。Page1(1)Ithink(that)it’sveryinteresting.(2)Shesaidthatshewouldleavethere
中学生小张认为遵守交通法规是人人应尽的责任和义务。根据柯尔伯格的道德发展阶段理论,小张的道德判断处于()
在立体主义艺术家中,尝试把立体主义和写实手法相结合,表现机械的美和力的是()。
最新回复
(
0
)