XDF补充材料 第5篇

7.                 According to the passage, one factor that causes unemployment and earnings figures to overpredict the amount of economic hardship is thefficeffice" />

(A) recurrence of periods of unemployment for a group of low-wage workers

(B) possibility that earnings may be received from more than one job per worker

(C) fact that unemployment counts do not include those who work for low wages and remain poor

(D) establishment of a system of record-keeping that makes it possible to compile poverty statistics（E）

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


我选了B,不明白为什么选E ?

pumpkin MM, 这个题我有点疑问:

prevalence, among low-wage workers and the unemployed, of members of families in which others are employed 翻译过来是 在low-wage workers and the unemployed 中, 家里有其他人employed的prevalence,  我觉得应该和the overwhelming majority are from multiple-earner, relatively affluent families

因为原文的论证关系如下

论点: Earnings and income data also overstate the dimensions of hardship. 论据:Among the millions with hourly earnings at or below the minimum wage level, the overwhelming majority are from multiple-earner, relatively affluent families. Most of those counted by the poverty statistics are elderly or handicapped or have family responsibilities which keep them out of the labor force, (另外一个一段的论点)so the poverty statistics are by no means an accurate indicator of labor market pathologies.

论证过程就是:因为: 在million with with hourly earnings at or below the minimum wage level, 大多数来自家里是多人挣钱的,相对富裕的家庭.而: 大多数被counted是are elderly or handicapped or have family responsibilities which keep them out of the labor force, 所以得出结论Earnings and income data also overstate the dimensions of hardship: ,正是这个两个因素导致了, 而答案中prvelance=overwhelming majority ,  members of families in which others are employed=from multiple-earner, relatively affluent families.

请指教,谢谢

同意fair_sword

其实我觉得pumpkin 讲的很清楚了。题目问： According to the passage, one factor that causes unemployment and earnings figures to overpredict the amount of economic hardship is the---

题目问的是一个具体的统计指标unemployment and earnings figures ，所以由此到文章中定位到最相近的地方，也就是pumpkin 讲的第二点：（第一点讲的是总括的统计数据，没有具体到指标）

How many really suffer as a result of labor market problems? This is one of the most critical yet contentious social policy questions. In many ways, our social statistics exaggerate the degree of hardship. Unemployment does not have the same dire consequences today as it did in the 1930’s when most of the unemployed were primary breadwinners, when income and earnings were usually much closer to the margin of subsistence, and when there were no countervailing social programs for those failing in the labor market. Increasing affluence, the rise of families with more than one wage earner, the growing predominance of secondary earners among the unemployed, and improved social welfare protection have (Q3)unquestionably mitigated the consequences of joblessness. Earnings and income data also overstate the dimensions of hardship. Among the millions with hourly earnings at or below the minimum wage level, the overwhelming majority are from multiple-earner, relatively affluent families. Most of those counted by the poverty statistics are elderly or handicapped or have family responsibilities which keep them out of the labor force, so the poverty statistics are by no means an accurate indicator of labor market pathologies.
同意楼上同学的说法.第一段落有两个小观点.用also显示出来的.

问题问的是有关于: overpredict the amount ---(数量, 大小, 范围)

文章的第一点: exagerate the degree of the hardship---(程度)

文章第二点: overstate the dimensions of hardship---(数量, 大小, 范围)

这样考点就在文章的第二点找, 文章最后一句与答案E中的members of families in which others are employed对应.

为什麽我的软件第一题到第四题看不到啊??

有人能够提供我题目吗??