首页
登录
职称英语
Last year’s economy in the United States should have won the Oscar for best
Last year’s economy in the United States should have won the Oscar for best
游客
2023-06-24
42
管理
问题
Last year’s economy in the United States should have won the Oscar for best picture. Growth in gross domestic product was 4.1 percent profits【C1】______up exports flourished and inflation (通货膨胀) stayed around 3 percent for the third year. So why did so many Americans give the picture only a B rating? The answer is jobs. The macroeconomic (宏观经济的) situation was good, but the microeconomic (微观经济的) numbers were not Yes, 3 million new jobs were there, but not enough of them were【C2】______, good jobs paying enough to support a family.
Job insecurity was serious. Even as they【C3】______higher sales and profits, corporations acted as if they were operating at a【C4】______, cutting 516,069 jobs in 1994 alone, almost as many as in the bad year of 1991. Yes, unemployment went down. But over 1 million workers were so【C5】______they left the labor force. More than 6 million who wanted full time work were only partially【C6】______and another large group was sheltered behind self-employment. We lost a million good manufacturing jobs between 1990 and 1995, continuing the【C7】______that has reduced the blue-collar work force from about 30 percent in the 1950s to about half that today.
White-collar workers found out they were no longer【C8】______. In 1995, for the first time, they were let go in numbers【C9】______equal to those for blue-collar workers. Many turn to【C10】______work—with lower pay, fewer benefits and less status. All this is a country where people meeting for the first time say, "What do you do?"
A. announced B. trend C. performed D. temporary
E. permanent F. virtually G. technical H. employed
I. exposure J. originally K. soared L. significance
M. secure N. discouraged O. loss [br] 【C10】
选项
答案
D
解析
此处需要填入形容词。根据破折号后面对work的解释,可知该词表消极意义。上下文都在说工作不稳定,被裁员,所以可确定答案为temporary(临时的)。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/2778869.html
相关试题推荐
Thereisnodenyingthatstudentsshouldlearnsomethingabouthowcomputers
Thereisnodenyingthatstudentsshouldlearnsomethingabouthowcomputers
Thereisnodenyingthatstudentsshouldlearnsomethingabouthowcomputers
[originaltext]FebruaryisBlackHistoryMonthintheUnitedStates,whenAm
[originaltext]W:Excuseme,Dr.Tyler,yoursecretarysaidIshouldcomeright
[originaltext]W:Excuseme,Dr.Tyler,yoursecretarysaidIshouldcomeright
[originaltext]ThenorthernpartsoftheUnitedStatesgetverycoldinthe
[originaltext]ThenorthernpartsoftheUnitedStatesgetverycoldinthe
[originaltext](1)ThenumberofpeopleintheUnitedStateswithoutahomeisdo
YoungpeopleintheUnitedStatesarefallingbehindtheiroverseaspeersin
随机试题
[img]2018m8s/ct_ehbm_ehbreadf_0121_201807[/img][br]Ifyouwanttohavetheyog
Directions:Eachofthefollowingreadingcomprehensionquestionsisbasedonth
[originaltext]M:Iseeyournewresumethatyouworkedasamanagerofstoreca
自始至终全部由关键工作组成的线路为关键线路,或线路上总的工作持续时间( )的线
小营煎治疗月经过少的适应证候是()A.实寒证 B.肾虚证 C.气滞证
可以制成胶囊剂的药物是A.颠茄流浸膏B.土荆芥油C.橙皮酊D.水合氯醛E.吲哚美
从业人员在执业过程中遇到自身利益或相关方利益与客户的利益发生冲突或可能发生冲突时
(2020年真题)表面灰褐色,带紫黑色斑点,有数条纵棱、中间1~2条较明显的药材
用人单位有下列()行为的,由劳动行政部门责令改正,处2000元以上20000元
依据《通用安装工程工程量计算规范》(GB50856-2013),在编制某建设项目
最新回复
(
0
)