小安阅读第五篇第8题求解答~~~现在不能以内容搜帖子了么？

高歌1990

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 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.
Yet there are also many ways our social statistics underestimate the degree of labor-market-related hardship. The unemployment counts exclude the millions of fully employed workers whose wages are so low that their families remain in poverty. Low wages and repeated or prolonged unemployment frequently interact to undermine the capacity for self-support. Since the number experiencing joblessness at some time during the year is several times the number unemployed in any month, those who suffer as a result of forced idleness can equal or exceed average annual unemployment, even though only a minority of the jobless in any month really suffer. For every person counted in the monthly unemployment tallies, there is another working part-time because of the inability to find full-time work, or else outside the labor force but wanting a job. Finally, income transfers in our country have always focused on the elderly, disabled, and dependent, neglecting the needs of the working poor, so that the dramatic expansion of cash and in-kind transfers does not necessarily mean that those failing in the labor market are adequately protected.
As a result of such contradictory evidence, it is uncertain whether those suffering seriously as a result of labor market problems number in the hundreds of thousands or the tens of millions, and, hence, whether high levels of joblessness can be tolerated or must be countered by job creation and economic stimulus. There is only one area of agreement in this debate—that the existing poverty, employment, and earnings statistics are inadequate for one their primary applications, measuring the consequences of labor market problems.

8.        The conclusion stated in lines 33-39 about the number of people who suffer as a result of forced idleness depends primarily on the point that
(A) in times of high unemployment, there are some people who do not remain unemployed for long
(B) the capacity for self-support depends on receiving moderate-to-high wages
(C) those in forced idleness include, besides the unemployed, both underemployed part-time workers and those not actively seeking work
(D) at different times during the year, different people are unemployed
(E) many of those who are affected by unemployment are dependents of unemployed workers
请问这道题里面的逻辑推理是怎样进行的。想了半天想不通啊。请NN们赐教，先谢！
另外问一句，现在不能以帖子内容搜索帖子了么？光以标题搜索的话很不好找有没有人问过相同问题了。

turbidtear

这题答案是D？

我的理解：
所标出的句子开头是since，从结构上将，是对前面解释。这里也就是解释之前一句中的repeated or prolonged unemployment undermine self-support：
Low wages and repeated or prolonged unemployment frequently interact to undermine the capacity for self-support.(这句话是个承上启下的句子，low wages之前已经解释过，因而之后必然是解释repeated or prolonged unemployment），而repeated与选项D有重合。

至于lines 33-39，意思大概就是以年为计的失业人数远大于以月为计的人数，即这个月失业的人，下个月就不失业了。举个例子，一个人连续在1月和2月失业，按年计，失业人数为1/year，按月计也是1/month；如果2个不同的人在1月和2月失业，按年计就是2/year，但按月计仍然是1/Month.这也就是repeated

高歌1990

自己顶一下，请NN帮忙解答

leidiudiu

同问~~~~

nilegean

顶老帖求解！搜索不到帖子内容啊！

nilegean

turbidtear 发表于 2015-5-15 13:58
这题答案是D？

我的理解：

太感谢了！解释地很清楚！豁然开朗