Steel workers made a() against wage reduction last week.A protestB profitC prayD propos
Steel workers made a() against wage reduction last week.
A protest
B profit
C pray
D proposal
Steel workers made a() against wage reduction last week.
A protest
B profit
C pray
D proposal
Labor Market Decline The decline of the labor market is easy to misinterpret (interpret). There are many reasons for that. During the 1970s, large numbers of women and young adults _____(41)(bear) during the baby boom entered into the work force. That _____(42)(result) in too many workers for the jobs available and depressed wages. The decline also has something to do with the explosive _____(43)(grow) in world trade since 1960. As _____(44)(manufacture) technologies have become more mobile, production jobs have _____(45)(move) from the U.S. to countries where wages are low. In _____(46)(add), technology itself has helped to cause the shifts in the job market. For example, _____(47)(few)American workers are needed to make steel today than in the past, because new _____(48)(machine) have made many of their tasks _____(49)(necessary). Finally, the high rate of _____(50)(employment)caused by these factors has tended to drive wages down further. _____.
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The following two questions are based on the following passage:
The Southfork Steel Company is in trouble. Since 1960 it has made guaranteed payments to retirees out of a pension fund paid into by current employees as a percentage of their salaries. The restructuring of the Southfork workforce, however, has meant that fewer employees are now needed to produce the same amount of work as in the days of the retired employees. Since current employees are unwilling to pay a larger percentage of their salaries into the pension system than their predecessors did, the pension fund will inevitably go bankrupt.
Which of the following, if true, suggests that the passage is correct in its conclusion that the pension fund will inevitably go bankrupt?
A.Employees who retire today will, on average, live five years longer than those who retired in the 1960s.
B.The workers' union has consistently vetoed any efforts on the part of management to cut tire level of pension payments to retired employees.
C.Although Southfork Steel now produces almost twice as much steel as it did during the 1960s, overseas competition has driven the price of steel, adjusted for inflation, to less than one-third of its price in the 1960s, and there is no indication that pric
D.Consultants have advised Southfork management that it can improve efficiency at the plant by implementing further workforce restructuring that could decrease the total number of employees by approximately 10 percent.
E.Southfork employees in management do not take part in the general pension system, but instead pay into and collect from a separate system that guarantees higher payments.
Directions: Choose from the following transitional expressions and put them in the blanks in the paragraph. in addition as finally for example even if also The erosion of the middle of the labor market is easy to misinterpret, because its roots are multiple. During the 1970s, the entry into the work force of an unprecedented number of women and of young adults born during the baby boom resulted in too many workers for the jobs available, and depressed wages. The decline of the middle ___1___ has something to do with the explosive growth in world trade since 1960. ___2___ manufacturing technologies have become more mobile, and multinational firms more footloose, production jobs have migrated from the U.S. to countries where wages are low. __3____, technology itself has helped to provoke the shifts in the job market. __4____, fewer American workers would have been needed to make steel in 1980 than in 1960 ___5___ the pressures of global competition had not been a factor, because new machines have made many of their tasks redundant. ___6___, the high rate of unemployment caused by these trends has tended to drive wages down further, especially at the low end, since it forces unskilled workers to compete for their jobs with unemployed people who are willing to do the work for less. 请填入正确的单词 (注意单词首字母的大小写) 1. __________
A.three-fifths
B.three-fives
C.third-fifths
D.three-fifth
It can be inferred from the passage that the mass production of steel caused ______.
A.a decline in the railroad industry
B.a revolution in the industrial world
C.an increase in the price of steel
D.a feeling of discontent among steel workers
The steel workers demanded that their wages ______ by 10 percent.
A.increase
B.increased
C.were increased
D.be increased
A.The expansion of existing facilities.
B.The creation of new business.
C.The increase of optimism about the future of economy.
D.All the above.
A、foreign producers at the expense of domestic consumers.
B、domestic manufacturers of steel.
C、domestic consumers of steel.
D、workers in the steel industry.
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist and philanthropist, made a fortune by manufacturing iron and steel protected by customs tariff. In 1873, on one of his frequent trips to England, he met Henry Bessemer and became convinced that the industrial future lay in steel. He built the J. Edgar Thomson Steel Mills near Pittsburgh, and from that moment on, the Carnegie Empire was one of constant expansion. Later on, the Carnegie Steel Co. became an immense organization. It included all the processes of steel production from the great furnaces and finishing mills of Pittsburgh to the lake steamers that moved the ores and the finished products.
Like his grandfather, Andrew Carnegie did not abandon the radical idealism of his forebears for the benefit of the working class and tile poor people. In spite of his espousal (支持) of Hebert Spencer's philosophy and the social Darwinism of the period, Carnegie remained deeply committed to many of the Chartist (宪章运动) ideals of his boyhood, He believed in the social responsibility of the man of wealth to society. He must serve as a steward for the fortune he has earned and use that fortune to provide greater opportunity for all and to increase man's knowledge of himself and of his universe. Furthermore, Carnegie considers that the dispensation of wealth for the benefit of society must never be in the form. of free charity but rather must be as a support to the community's responsibility for its own people.
When Carnegie died in Lenox, Massachusetts on August 11, 1919, most of his fortune was already gone. People wonder that if Carnegie had known this when he was alive, he would have spread most of his wealth to the poor people.
Carnegie followed his ancestor's steps ______.
A.by developing a large industrial company
B.in caring for and improving benefits for the workers and the poor
C.by furthering Spencer's philosophy
D.by being a follower of social Darwinism
This knife is made of steel()and it can be used for a long time.
A、mixed
B、alloy
C、champion
D、grasp
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