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No one really likes help. It is a great deal more satisfactory to be given the opportunity to earn one’ s daily bread; and if, by doing so, one can create a continuing means of livelihood, more jobs, and better living conditions for one’ s community, that is more satisfactory still. It is on this premise that the World Food Program bases most of its operations.
But how can a man born of unemployed, undernourished parents, in, the depths of poverty that spreads the solidarity towns near Latin American cities, or displaced people’s camps in Africa and Asia, begin to make some improvement Someone must help someone who under stands that both food and employment are fundamental to his need.
Most thinking people must have remarked at some time or other that it doesn’ t make sense for half the population of the world to be in need of better food while governments and farmers elsewhere are worried by surpluses. For a number of
A. feel offended by people who offer them gifts
B. are prevented from rising in the world by the poverty of their surroundings
C. need to be given both food and the chance to earn their living
D. feel their pride hurt if they are given charity
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案例三：小崔打算五年后买房，计划购买一套面积在90平方米左右的普通住宅。目前小崔有存款2万元；其2008年的年收入预计约为15万元，每年的储蓄比率为40%，投资报酬率为15%。小崔准备在买房时向银行申请20年期的按揭，预计当时的房贷利率为6%。 根据案例三，回答13～18题： |
Automation refers to the introduction of electronic control and automatic operation of productive machinery. It reduces the human factors, mental and physical, in production, and is designed to make possible the manufacture of more goods with fewer workers. The development of automation in American industry has been called the "Second Industrial Revolution."
Labor’s concern over automation arises from uncertainty about its effects on employment, and fears of major changes in jobs. In the main, labor has taken the view that resistance to technological change is futile. In the long run, the result of automation may well be an increase in employment, since it is expected that vast industries will grow up around manufacturing, maintaining, and repairing automation equipment. Unquestionably, however, there will be major shifts in jobs within plants and displacement of labor from one industry to another. The interest of labor lies in bringing about this transiti
A. all efforts must be made to prevent automation
B. automation will cause a rise in consumer costs
C. its main interest lies in increasing all wages
D. technological change cannot be stopped
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