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【題目】閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)(A、B、C和D)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)。

(2012年北京模擬)Employment practices often reflect the needs of employers several decades ago. Times have changed. And so too has the Canadian workforce. Yet many employment practices have not kept pace with this change. For example，some work environments and washrooms designed for able-bodied workers seldom accommodate people who use a wheelchair.

Modernizing these practices is what employment equality is about. For example，making sure work benches and washrooms are adapted for disabled people entering the workplace，paving the way for workers who become disabled on the job. By doing so，any given group of people－formerly discriminated against－now has access to better employment opportunities.

The objective，of course，is to make the workplace reflect Canadian society. However，this does not necessarily mean setting and enforcing quotas(實(shí)行配額)．Rather，it means identifying the barriers to employment and designing measures，with achievable goals and clear timetables，to remove them.

For example，according to the Canadian Union of Public Employees－Canada's largest union，it would be unrealistic in the short term to insist that because half of the working age population is women，that half of the employees of an engineering firm should be women. At this moment，there would not be enough qualified female engineers.

A reasonable numerical goal would be based on the number of women who actually are engineers(8%) and those who are studying to become engineers(25%)．A short term goal of 13% would be appropriate without running the risk of hiring unqualified people.

Equally important is to ensure people who have been disadvantaged the chance to become qualified for new opportunities. If aboriginal peopl(土著居民)，for example，can't qualify for certain jobs because they haven't had access to appropriate educational opportunities，then an employment equality program would have to address that problem with training programs.

Employment laws in this country cannot be considered displeasing if they guarantee all Canadians fair and equal access to the workforce.

【1】The passage is mainly about how to ________.

A．modernize equipment for the disabled at work

B．a(chǎn)chieve equality of employment opportunities

C．protect women's rights in employment

D．complete a job training program

【2】The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 3 refers to ________.

A．barriers

B．measures

C．goals

D．timetables

【3】The example of women shows that ________.

A．only a small percentage of women engineers will get promoted

B．13% of the working age women should be hired

C．policy makers should adopt a practical and flexible approach

D．the quota of women for employment should be raised

【4】The underlined word “address” in Paragraph 6 probably means ________.

A．put forward

B．run into

C．find out

D．deal with

Answer 1

【答案】【1】B

【2】A

【3】C

【4】D

【解析】 當(dāng)今社會(huì)，就業(yè)問(wèn)題受到每個(gè)人的關(guān)注，而關(guān)于“平等就業(yè)”又該如何處理？

【1】主旨大意題。文章論述了該如何實(shí)現(xiàn)人人具有平等就業(yè)機(jī) 會(huì)的事。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。去消除這個(gè)雇用“障礙”。指代上文的barriers。

【3】推理判斷題。由第五段可知，政府工作人員應(yīng)采取一種實(shí)際、靈活的方法以應(yīng)對(duì)出現(xiàn)的就業(yè)不平等問(wèn)題。

【4】詞義猜測(cè)題。第六段最后一句的后半部分意為：一項(xiàng)就業(yè)平等規(guī)劃將不得不解決培訓(xùn)項(xiàng)目存在的問(wèn)題。在此應(yīng)表示“處理，解決”這個(gè)問(wèn)題。deal with處理；解決；put forward提出；run into偶遇；find out查明。