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A) automation will eventually prevent unemployment
B) automation will help workers acquire new skills
C) automation will eventually benefit the workers no less that the employers
D) automation is a trend which cannot be stopped
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A) automation will eventually prevent unemployment
B) automation will help workers acquire new skills
C) automation will eventually benefit the workers no less that the employers
D) automation is a trend which cannot be stopped
It is (1)_____ one of the most expensive additions you can make. A brick double (2)_____ with an internal floor (3)_____ of 350 square feet might cost ￡8-9,000, though you could (4)_____ that by between a quarter and a half (5)_____ you used direct labour or built it yourself. For the same (6)_____ you (7)_____ have 2 extra bedrooms and. a bathroom. (8)_____ the prewar days when suburban gardens were (9)_____ than a handkerchief, the garage was (10)_____ as the "motor house". It usually stood at the (11)_____ of the garden as far away from the (12)_____ as possible. Nowadays, and not just for (13)_____ of space, we (14)_____ the garage to be (15)_____ to the house or sometimes even inside (16)_____ Normally, it (17)_____ to be big (18)_____ for two cars parked side by (19)_____ though some builders still cheat and provide a nose-to-tail unit which saves on space but is a nuisance to (20)_____.
A．as well
B．also
C．because
D．for
He is certain that the dictionary is just what I want.
A. sure
B. angry
C. doubtful
D. worried
A.That’s a great idea
B.Yes, please
C.Don’t worrie
D.I don’t like to
A.disappointing;worrying
B.disappointing;worried
C.disappointed;worrie
D.disappointed;worrying
The performance of the US labour market in the late 1990s is as much a feature of the puzzlingly benign so-called New Economy.
For the past four years the US has enjoyed an average annual growth rate of 4 percent— up from an average of about 3 percent in the previous decade. Productivity improvements account for about two-thirds of that elevated output, as workers have increased their output per hour.
The rest has come from a rapid increase in the total number of workers, what economists call labour inputs. There has been a surge in new jobs—7m in the last three years—that has pushed the unemployment rate down into the uncharted territory of barely 4 percent.
Recent economic history suggests that, whenever unemployment has gone this low, the scramble for workers becomes so difficult that wages are rapidly bid up, and an inflationary spiral follows. But in the US in the past five years, wage growth has been muted. In the last year, total employee compensation in the private sector rose by just 3.3 percent, almost unchanged on the figure three years ago, when the unemployment rate was 5.4 percent.
"In some ways it's a bigger puzzle than the productivity puzzle," says Paul Krugman, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "How can we have such a low unemployment rate without an explosion of wages？"
A number of factors appear to have contributed.
In their search for workers to fill positions, companies have reached out to places they have not looked at in the past. As a result, more people are working than ever. The proportion of the population in employment reached a record high this year of more than 64 percent.
This expanded labour supply helps explain why companies have kept the lid on pay over the last few years. The availability of new sources of labour—women, retirees, college students among them—means companies may not have to give big pay rises to hire new workers. It also helps explain why the benefits of the New Economy are not always widely felt—more people seem to be working longer hours than ever.
But an expanded labour supply can only explain part of what has changed in the US in recent years. After all, unemployment—the proportion of the labour force out of work—has still declined, indicating that companies have drawn new workers not just from the pool of those not previously in the labour force, but also from the unemployed.
And yet still wage costs have remained muted.
One possible explanation is that companies have become more flexible in how they pay.
"At Newfield, we use a much broader variety of means to reward workers, including performance related pay, year-end bonuses, and extended contracts," says Mr. Ostop.
Why does Connecticut have the tightest labour market in the U. S. ？
We feel()with the inconvenience the service center brought us.
A. disappointed
B. worried
C. surprised
The growth of the limited liability company and municipal business had important consequences. Such large, impersonal manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders as a class, an element in national life representing irresponsible wealth detached from the land and the duties of the landowners; and almost equally detached from the responsible management of business. During the nineteenth century, America, Africa, India, Australia and parts of Europe were being developed by British capital, and British shareholders were thus enriched by the world's movement towards industrialisation. Towns like Bournemouth and Eastbourne sprang up to house large "comfortable" classes who had retired on their incomes, and who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholders' meeting to dictate their orders to the management. On the other hand "shareholding" meant leisure and freedom which was used by many of the later Victorians for the highest purpose of a great civilisation.
The "shareholders" as such had no knowledge of the lives, thoughts or needs of employees in the company in which they held shares, and their influence on the relations of capital and labour was not good. The paid manager acting for the company was in more direct relation with the workers and their demands, but even he had seldom familiar personal knowledge of the workmen which the employers had often had under the more patriarchal system of the old family business. Indeed the mere size of operations and the number of workmen involved rendered such personal relations impossible. Fortunately, however, the increasing power and organisation of the trade unions, at least in all skilled trades, enabled the workmen to meet on equal terms the managers of the companies who employed them. The cruel discipline of the strike and lockout taught the two parties to respect each other's strength and understand the value of fair negotiation.
The author says that old family firms
A．were ruined by the younger generations.
B．failed for lack of individual initiative.
C．lacked efficiency compared with modern companies.
D．were able to supply adequate services to taxpayers.
The growth of the limited liability company and municipal business had important consequences. Such large, impersonal manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders as a class, an element in national life representing irresponsible wealth detached from the land and the duties of the landowners; and almost equally detached from the responsible management of business. During the nineteenth century, America, Africa, India, Australia and parts of Europe were being developed by British capital, and British shareholders were thus enriched by the world's movement towards industrialisation. Towns like Bournemouth and Eastbourne sprang up to large house "comfortable" classes who had retired on their incomes, and who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholders' meeting to dictate their orders to the management. On the other hand "shareholding" meant leisure and freedom which was used by many of the later Victorians for the highest purpose of a great civilisation.
The "shareholders" as such had no knowledge of the lives, thoughts or needs of employees in the company in which they held shares, and their influence on the relations of capital and labour was not good. The paid manager acting for the company was in more direct relation with the workers and their demands, but even he had seldom familiar personal knowledge of the workmen which the employers had often had under the more patriarchal system of the old family business. Indeed the mere size of operations and the numbers of workmen involved rendered such personal relations impossible. Fortunately, however, the increasing power and organization of the trade unions, at least in all skilled trades, enabled the workmen to meet on equal terms the managers of the companies who employed them. The creel discipline of the strike and lookout taught the two parties to respect each other's strength and understand the value of fair negotiation.
The author says that old family firms ______.
A．were mined by the younger generations
B．failed for lack of individual initiative
C．lacked efficiency compared with modern companies
D．were able to supply adequate services to taxpayers
根据以下内容回答题：
Adam Smith，writing in the 1770s，was the first person to see the importance of the divi-sion of labor and to explain part of its advantages．He gives as an example the process by which pins were made in England． “One man draws out the wire，another strengthens it，a third cuts it，a fourth points it，a fifth grinds it at the top to prepare it to receive the head．To make the head requires two or three distinct operations． To put it on is a separate operation，to polish the pins is another．And the important business of making pins is，in this manner，divided into about eighteen dis．tinct operations which in some factories are all performed by different people，though in others the same man will sometimes perform. two or three of them．”Ten men，Smith said，in this way turned out twelve pounds of pins a day or about 4 800 pins a piece．But if all of them had worked separately and independently without division of labor，they certainly could not have made twenty pins in a day and perhaps not even one． There can be no doubt that division of labor is an efficient way of orgnizing work．Fewer people can make more pins．Adam Smith saw this but he also took it for granted that division of labour is in itself responsible for economic growth and development and that it accounts for the difference between expanding economies and those that stand still．But division of labor adds nothing new，it only enables people to produce more of what they already have．
According to the passage，Adam Smith w‘as the first person to__________．
A.take advantage of the division of the labor
B.introduce the division of labor into England
C.understand the effects of the division of labor
D.explain the causes of the division of labor
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