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
9
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] 【C8】
选项
答案
M
解析
此处需要形容词或动词过去分词。上下文都在说工作不稳定,所以答案显然是secure(安全的,有安全感的)。
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.tihaiku.com/zcyy/2778507.html
相关试题推荐
TopicShouldWeTellWhiteLies?Forthispart,youareallowed30minutes
TopicShouldArtandMusicBeAddedtoCompulsoryCourses?Forthispar
KimiyukiSudashouldbeaperfectcustomerforJapan’scar-makers.He’sayo
PlayingorganizedsportsissuchacommonexperienceintheUnitedStatesth
[originaltext]W:Excuseme,Dr.Tyler,yoursecretarysaidIshouldcomeright
[originaltext]W:Excuseme,Dr.Tyler,yoursecretarysaidIshouldcomeright
[originaltext]ThenorthernpartsoftheUnitedStatesgetverycoldinthe
ShouldCollegeStudentsStartaBusinessatUniversity?Forthis
Before1978,China’seconomyhadaweakagriculturalfoundation,andtherati
DueAttentionShouldBePaidtoInternetSafety1.很多网民的利益及隐私受
随机试题
TheLongMarchALongWaytoGoforChines
Inthissection,youwillhearashortpassage.Forquestions21—30,completeth
A.410~420kg/h B.330~340kg/h C.580~590k
体内原形药物或其代谢物排出体外的过程是()。A:吸收 B:分布 C:代谢
契约型基金合同中,股权投资业务相关内容包括()。 Ⅰ.基金的募集、基金的
股权投资基金的参与主体主要包括如下哪些() Ⅰ.基金投资者 Ⅱ.基金管理人
圆明园废墟是北京城最有历史感的文化遗迹之一,如果把它完全铲平,造一座崭新的圆明园
某老师在《赠汪伦》的教学中,老师组织了一场“表演”。师:“同学们,今天我们上《赠
动物世界奇趣多多,下列相关描述错误的是A.蜻蜓点水,并不是蜻蜓闲来无事在戏水,
下列属于收入确认与计量的步骤的有()。A.合同各方已批准该合同并承诺将履行
最新回复
(
0
)