首页
登录
职称英语
As any middle-class parent knows, unpaid work experience can give youngsters
As any middle-class parent knows, unpaid work experience can give youngsters
游客
2024-01-16
49
管理
问题
As any middle-class parent knows, unpaid work experience can give youngsters a valuable introduction to a secure job. The government has recognized it too, abandoning rules in 2011 that had formerly stopped 16 to 24-year-olds from doing unpaid work while claiming unemployment benefit. But moving from that to forcing them to work without pay in order to collect these benefits has proved a big step.
More than one million young people in Britain are unemployed, the highest number since the mid-1980s. Keen both to cut the welfare bill and to avoid the depressed future wages that may result from early unemployment, the government has introduced an ambitious program of reform to get youngsters off welfare and into work. A key part of it is ensuring that no one gets benefit from the government for long; ministers are keen to avoid what happened after the early-1980s recession (衰退), when unemployment continued in some parts of the country for a long time after the economy began to improve.
To help young people into work, ministers had persuaded lots of employers, including bakery chains, bookshops and supermarkets, to take on unemployed youths, who receive work experience but no pay, with the prospect of a proper job for those who shine. Some 35,000 youngsters participated last year; half found paid work soon after finishing the scheme.
The idea of getting young adults used to showing up for work is popular with voters: according to a survey published in February, about 60% of people support the program. Equally attractive was the option of compelling them to work: Under the existing arrangements youngsters could choose whether or not to accept a place, but if they dropped out after the end of the first week, they stood to lose up to two weeks’ benefits.
Yet the scheme has also polarized(两极分化的) opinion; a third of people are consistently opposed. Following a noisy " Right to Work" campaign that accused employers of co-operating secretly with the government in " forced labor", several firms dropped out of the program. To prevent this from getting worse, Chris Grayling, an employment minister, admitted that young people could leave their work experience at any time without being punished for doing so. This not only halted the flight of employers (for now, at least) but also enabled him to announce that new firms have agreed to take part in the program. [br] The word "shine" in Paragraph 3 means "________".
选项
A、do well
B、reflect light
C、look happy
D、produce light
答案
A
解析
单词释义题。根据文章第三段第一句,可以猜测他们工作但没有报酬,不过做得好就可以得到合适的工作。故选A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3367150.html
相关试题推荐
Itisbecausesheistooinexperienced______shedoesnotknowhowtodealwitht
Asanymiddle-classparentknows,unpaidworkexperiencecangiveyoungsters
Asanymiddle-classparentknows,unpaidworkexperiencecangiveyoungsters
Asanymiddle-classparentknows,unpaidworkexperiencecangiveyoungsters
Asanymiddle-classparentknows,unpaidworkexperiencecangiveyoungsters
A:Youlookunhappy.【D1】______B:Oh,justbecauseofmyparents.Theyarealway
A:Youlookunhappy.【D1】______B:Oh,justbecauseofmyparents.Theyarealway
A:Youlookunhappy.【D1】______B:Oh,justbecauseofmyparents.Theyarealway
ParentsinChinaarealwaystryingtohelptheirchildren,eventomakethe
WhenJackcamein,I______dinnerwithmyparents.A、washavingB、hadC、amhaving
随机试题
Thenovelcontainssomemarvelouslyrevealing_______ofrurallifeinthe19th
[originaltext]Today,wewillfocusonsolotravelling.Whileit’sfuntotravel
[originaltext]W:Goodmorning,Mr.Lee.MayIhaveaminuteofyourtime?M:Su
在进行基金产品风险评价时,应当依据的因素不包括()。A.基金的过往业绩及基金净值
血细胞分析仪白细胞直方图中中性粒细胞峰右侧区域异常原因有A:可能存在血小板聚集现
在乡试、会试、殿试中的第一名分别称( )。 A.解元、会元、状元 B.
儿童容易模仿影视片中反面人物的行为,结果导致不良品德的形成。为了避免影视片的消极
马克思指出:“环境的改变和人的活动或自我改变的一致,只能被看作是并合理地理解为革
在蒙古向南扩张的同时,还发动了三次大规模的西征,三次西征中分别在位的大汗是()
血液流经肾小球时,促进原尿生成的直接动力是A.入球小动脉血压 B.出球小动脉血
最新回复
(
0
)