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Despite a cooling of the economy, high technology companies are still crying

游客2023-07-07  51
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 US 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 labourers.
    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 worker: 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 recognises 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. [br] The best title for the passage may be______.
选项 A、The Cooling of the US Economy
B、The Training of Gold-collar workers
C、The Shortage of Technology Jobs
D、Gold-collar Workers in Need
答案 D
解析 本文首段第1句就指出，skilled workers极其缺乏，通过下文可知，本文中的skilled workers指的就是gold-collar workers。第2段论述了gold-collar workers缺少的原因；第3段讲述与white—collar workers和blue—collar workers相比，gold—collar workers的独特特点，最后一段指出可能会阻碍gold—collar workers数量发展的因素，由此可知，本文主要是与gold—collar workers的
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