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Last year's economy should have won the Oscar for the best picture.
growth in gross domestic product was 4.1 percents; profits soared; exports ___1___
flourished; and inflation stayed around 3 percent for the third year. Though ___2___
why so many Americans give the picture a lousy B rating? The answer is
jobs. The microeconomic situation was good, and the microeconomic ___3___
numbers were not. Yes, 3 million new jobs were there, but not enough of them
were temporary, good jobs paying enough to support a family. Job ___4___
insecurity was rampant（猖獗的）. Even as they announced higher sales and
profits, corporations acted as if they were in a tailspin, cutting 516,069 jobs
in 1994 alone, almost as much as in the recession year of 1991. ___5___
Yes, unemployment went down. But over 1 million workers were so
couraged that they left the labor force. More than 6 million who wanted ___6___
fulltime job were only partially employed; and another large group was either
unqualified or sheltered behind the euphemism of self-employment. We lost
a million good manufacturing jobs between 1990 and 1995, continuing the
trend the blue-collar work force has been reduced from about 30 percent in ___7___
the 1950s to about half that today. White-collar workers found out they are ___8___
no longer immue. For the first time, they were let go in numbers virtually
equal to those for blue-collar workers. Many resorted in temporary work ___9___
with lower pay, fewer benefits but less status. ___10___
All that in a country where people meet for the first time would say ,
“what do you do?”
參考答案及解析:
1. percents -> percent
用percent表示百分?jǐn)?shù)時(shí)，只需用基數(shù)詞加上單數(shù)percent即可。
2. Though -> But
3. and -> but
4. temporary -> permanent
根據(jù)句意：盡管有300萬個(gè)新的工作職位，但長(zhǎng)久的工作崗位是不足夠的。temporary意為“臨時(shí)的，暫時(shí)的”，permanent意為“永久的，固定的”，根據(jù)but和not enough可知應(yīng)該是沒有足夠的長(zhǎng)久工作崗位。
5. much -> many
此處的many修飾前面的jobs，相當(dāng)于almost as many (jobs) as in the recession year of 1991。由于job是可數(shù)名詞，故應(yīng)該用many修飾。
6. couraged -> discouraged
根據(jù)上下文，短期的工作使工人失望，所以應(yīng)該使用discouraged。
7. trend后加that
此處trend后是一個(gè)完整的句子，根據(jù)意思這句話是解釋說明trend的同位語從句，故要加上引導(dǎo)詞that。注：同位語從句的that不能省略。
8. are -> were
根據(jù)整篇文章的時(shí)態(tài)和主句的謂語動(dòng)詞found out可知此處要用過去時(shí)。
9. in -> to
eesort to是固定搭配，意為“求助于….，采取”。
10. but -> and
此句句意為“很多人都會(huì)做工資少、福利少和低職位的臨時(shí)工”。 此處lower pay, fewer benefits 和less status都屬于同級(jí)，因此應(yīng)該是并列關(guān)系而不是轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系。
Last year's economy should have won the Oscar for the best picture.
growth in gross domestic product was 4.1 percents; profits soared; exports ___1___
flourished; and inflation stayed around 3 percent for the third year. Though ___2___
why so many Americans give the picture a lousy B rating? The answer is
jobs. The microeconomic situation was good, and the microeconomic ___3___
numbers were not. Yes, 3 million new jobs were there, but not enough of them
were temporary, good jobs paying enough to support a family. Job ___4___
insecurity was rampant（猖獗的）. Even as they announced higher sales and
profits, corporations acted as if they were in a tailspin, cutting 516,069 jobs
in 1994 alone, almost as much as in the recession year of 1991. ___5___
Yes, unemployment went down. But over 1 million workers were so
couraged that they left the labor force. More than 6 million who wanted ___6___
fulltime job were only partially employed; and another large group was either
unqualified or sheltered behind the euphemism of self-employment. We lost
a million good manufacturing jobs between 1990 and 1995, continuing the
trend the blue-collar work force has been reduced from about 30 percent in ___7___
the 1950s to about half that today. White-collar workers found out they are ___8___
no longer immue. For the first time, they were let go in numbers virtually
equal to those for blue-collar workers. Many resorted in temporary work ___9___
with lower pay, fewer benefits but less status. ___10___
All that in a country where people meet for the first time would say ,
“what do you do?”
參考答案及解析:
1. percents -> percent
用percent表示百分?jǐn)?shù)時(shí)，只需用基數(shù)詞加上單數(shù)percent即可。
2. Though -> But
3. and -> but
4. temporary -> permanent
根據(jù)句意：盡管有300萬個(gè)新的工作職位，但長(zhǎng)久的工作崗位是不足夠的。temporary意為“臨時(shí)的，暫時(shí)的”，permanent意為“永久的，固定的”，根據(jù)but和not enough可知應(yīng)該是沒有足夠的長(zhǎng)久工作崗位。
5. much -> many
此處的many修飾前面的jobs，相當(dāng)于almost as many (jobs) as in the recession year of 1991。由于job是可數(shù)名詞，故應(yīng)該用many修飾。
6. couraged -> discouraged
根據(jù)上下文，短期的工作使工人失望，所以應(yīng)該使用discouraged。
7. trend后加that
此處trend后是一個(gè)完整的句子，根據(jù)意思這句話是解釋說明trend的同位語從句，故要加上引導(dǎo)詞that。注：同位語從句的that不能省略。
8. are -> were
根據(jù)整篇文章的時(shí)態(tài)和主句的謂語動(dòng)詞found out可知此處要用過去時(shí)。
9. in -> to
eesort to是固定搭配，意為“求助于….，采取”。
10. but -> and
此句句意為“很多人都會(huì)做工資少、福利少和低職位的臨時(shí)工”。 此處lower pay, fewer benefits 和less status都屬于同級(jí)，因此應(yīng)該是并列關(guān)系而不是轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系。