Opinion polls are now beginning to show
an unwilling general agreement 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 the neighborhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centers of production and work The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people’s work has taken the f A. Available employment should be restricted to a small percentage of the population. B. New jobs must be created in order to rectify high unemployment figures. C. Jobs available must be distributed among more people. D. The present high unemployment figures are a fact of life. [单项选择]
{{B}}TEXT C{{/B}} 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 shah 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 serf-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 the neighbourhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centres of production and work The 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 A. available employment should be restricted to a small percentage of the population B. new jobs must be created in order to rectify high unemployment figures C. available employment must be more widely distributed among the unemployed D. the present high unemployment figures are a fact of life [单项选择]Text 3
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