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Passage-7
Line In 1988 services moved ahead of
manufacturing as the main product of the United
States economy. But what is meant by "services'?
Some economists define a service as something
(5) that is produced and consumed simultaneously: for
example, a haircut. The broader, classical definition
is that a service is an intangible something that
cannot be touched or stored. Yet electric utilities
can store energy, and computer programmers
(10) save information electronically. Thus, the classical
definition is hard to sustain.
The United States government's definition is
more practical: services are the residual category
that includes everything that is not agriculture or
(15) industry. Under this definition, "services" includes
activities as diverse as engineering and driving a
bus. However, besides lacking a strong conceptual
framework, this definition fails to recognize the
distinction between service industries and service
(20) occupations. It categorizes workers based on their
company's final product rather than on the actual
work the employees perform. Thus, the many
service workers employed by manufacturers-
bookkeepers or janitors, for example-would
(25) fall under the industrial rather than the services
category. Such ambiguities reveal the arbitrariness
of this definition and suggest that, although
practical for government purposes, it does not
accurately reflect the composition of the current
(30) United States economy.
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35. The author of the passage mentions which of the following as one disadvantage of the
United States government's definition of services?

a. It is less useful than the other definitions mentioned in the passage.
b. It is narrower in scope than the other definitions mentioned in the passage.
c. It is based on the final product produced rather than on the type of work performed.
d. It does not recognize the diversity of occupations within the service industries.
e. It misclassifies many workers who are employed in service industries

This question is based on specific information explicitly stated in the passage.
According to the author, the government's definition fails because it categorizes workers
based on their company's final product rather than on the actual work the employees perform (lines 20-22).

A   The author calls this definition practical for government purposes, so for the government it is more useful than other definitions.
B   The definition includes everything that is not agriculture or industry while the classical definition does not include occupations that are clearly services; the government's definition is thus not narrower.
C   Correct. Workers are categorized by the final product of their company rather than by the type of work they perform at that company.
D   Diversity of occupations within the service industries is not discussed.
E   The definition misclassifies service workers employed in manufacturing, not service industries.

E为什么错还是不太明白。service industries 到底是什么意思呢？

It categorizes workers based on their
company's final product rather than on the actual
work the employees perform. Thus, the many
service workers employed by manufacturers-
bookkeepers or janitors, for example-would
(25) fall under the industrial rather than the services
category

政府看最终的产品，因为在m 企业里，最后产品是非 service 的

（The United States government's definition is
more practical: services are the residual category
that includes everything that is not agriculture or
(15) industry.）

所以，在m 企业里的工人就不被算作service ，哪怕他们干的就是service 的活

意思是“政府把service industries”里面的工人弄错了，无关对象

Ihe information provided by Choice E is not mentioned in the passage given above.

I looked through the passage again, but failed to find any information that can support E.

以下是引用lexie在2006-7-21 20:30:00的发言：

It misclassifies many workers who are employed in service industries

Ihe information provided by Choice E is not mentioned in the passage given above.

service industries: 服务行业

Line: 16 argiculture or industry （工业）

I looked through the passage again, but failed to find any information that can support E.

Could you show the part that you think it might be able to support Choice E?

恩，根本在于我的industry的意思搞忘了，只记得他是工业的意思，忽视了这里service industries应该是产业的意思