Text 1 In an essay entitled“Making It in

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问题 Text 1 In an essay entitled“Making It in America”,the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated:The average mill has only two employees today,“a man and a dog.The man is there to feed the dog,and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.”Davidson's article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middleclass incomes today is also because of the advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution,which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines or foreign worker.In the past,workers with average skills,doing an average job，could earn an average lifestyle.But，today，average is officially over.Being average just won't earn you what it used to.It can't when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor,cheap robotics,cheap software,cheap automation and cheap genius.Therefore,everyone needs to find their extra—their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.Yes,new technology has been eating jobs forever,and always will.But there's been acceleration.As Davidson notes,“In the 10 years ending in 2009,U.S.factories shed workers so fast that they erased almost all the gains of the previous 70 years;roughly one out of every three manufacturing jobs—about 6 million in total—disappeared.”There will always be change—new jobs,new products,new services.But the one thing we know for sure is that with each advance in globalization and the I.T.revolution,the best jobs will require workers to have more and better education to make themselves above average.In a world where average is officially over,there are many things we need to do to support employment,but nothing would be more important than passing some kind of G.I.Bill for the 21st century that ensures that every American has access to posthigh school education.The joke in Paragraph 1 is used to illustrate____A.the impact of technological advancesB.the alleviation of job pressureC.the shrinkage of textile millsD.the decline of middleclass incomes

选项 A.the impact of technological advances
B.the alleviation of job pressure
C.the shrinkage of textile mills
D.the decline of middleclass incomes

答案 A

解析推理题【命题思路】首段给出的笑话是论据，用于说明作者在上文或者下文提出的论点，解题的关键在找出论点。【直击答案】根据题干关键词“the joke”定位到首段。答案所在句为the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated，A项中的technological advances正好对应了原文中出现的“automated”，故为正确答案。【干扰排除】B项文中并未提及，属于无中生有；选项C属于就例子说例子，不正确；选项D文章第二段确实提到了，但是与题干中的笑话无关，因此不正确。

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Text 1 In an essay entitled“Making It in

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