四六级考试

【单选题】Opinion polls are now beginning to show a reluctant consensus that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to stay. This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the available employment more widely. But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the future of work. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm Should we not rather encourage many other ways for self-respecting people to work Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer Should we not aim to revive the household and neighborhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centres of production and workThe industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people’’s work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reverseD、This seems a daunting thought.But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom.Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people’’s homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail then by road, people commuted longer distances to their places of employment until, eventually, many people’’s work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they liveD、 Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage as men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community in pre-industrial times, while now it be comes customary for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and family to his wife.Also as employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were excluded a problem now, as more teenagers become frustrated at school and more retired people want to live active lives.All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some effort and re sources away from the Utopian goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs. The article concludes that ______.
A、the creation of jobs for all is an impossibility
B．we should help those whose jobs are only part-time
C．people should start to support themselves by learning a practical skill
D．our efforts and resources in terms of tackling unemployment are insufficient

网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
推理判断题。文章最后一段中…switch…away from the Utopian goal of creating jobs for all说明，实现全民就业是不切实际的，[A]与之相符；而综合原文来看，全文分析了目前就业的情况、现代就业方式的变化，以及现代就业中妇女、青年人和老年人的劣势地位，也最终体现出了全民就业的目标不可实现。选项[B]说“我们应帮助那些只有业余工作的人”，这是对文章最后半句话意思的字面理解，而不是全篇的结论；选项[C](人们应学习一门实用技巧来维持生计)和[D](我们应对失业问题的力量和资源利用效率不高)在文中未提及。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>