英语六级考试精编阅读理解练习题(3)

　　57.Which of the following doeslabor market problemsrefer to?

　　Shortage of jobs providing adequate income.

　　Deficiencies in the training of the work force

　　Trade relationships among producers of goods.

　　The overall causes of poverty.

　　58.The author contrasts the 1930s with the present in order to show that__________.

　　more people were unemployed in the 1930s

　　social programs are more needed now

　　unemployment now has less severe effects

　　now there is a greater proportion of elderly and handicapped people among those in poverty

　　59.Which of the following proposals best responds to the issues raised by the author?

　　Innovative programmes using multiple approaches should be set up to reduce the level of unemployment.

　　A compromise should be found between the positions of those who view joblessness an evil greater than economic control and those who hold the opposite view.

　　New statistical indices should be developed to measure the degree to which unemployment and inadequately paid employment cause suffering.

　　Consideration should be given to the ways in which statistics can act as partial causes of the phenomena that they purport to measure.

　　60.The authors purpose in citing those who are repeatedly unemployed during a twelve-month period is most probably to show that______________.

　　there are several factors that cause the payment of low wages to some members of the labor force

　　unemployment statistics can underestimate the hardship resulting from joblessness

　　recurrent inadequacies in the labor market can exist and cause hardships for individual workers

　　a majority of those who are jobless at any time does not suffer severe hardship

　　61.According to the text，one factor that causes unemployment and earnings figures to over-predict the amount of economic hardshipis the____________.

　　recurrence of periods of unemployment for a group of low wage workers

　　fact that unemployment counts do not include those who work for low wages

　　establishment of a system of record keeping that makes it possible to compile poverty statistics

　　prevalence，among low wage workers and the unemployed，of members of families in which others are employed