There are only a couple of ways to explain how the capacity of U.S.
workers to claim their accustomed share of the nation's income has so stunningly
collapsed. Outsourcing is certainly a big part of the picture. As Stephen Roach,
a famous economist, has noted, private-sector hiring in the current recovery is
roughly 7 million jobs shy of what would have been the norm in previous
recoveries and U.S. corporations, high-tech as well as low-tech, are busily
hiring employees from lower-wage nation instead of from our own.
The jobless rate among U.S. software engineers, for instance, has doubled
over the past three years. In Bangalore, India, where American companies are on
a huge hiring spree for the kind of talent they used to scoop up in Silicon
Valley, the starting annual salary for top electrical engineering graduates,
says Business Week, is $10, 000 compared with $80,000 here in the States. Tell
that to a software writer in Palo Alto and she's not likely to up her boss for a
raise. That software writer certainly doesn't belong to a
union, either. Indeed, the current recovery is not only the
first to take place in all economy in which global wage rates are a factor, but
the first since before the New Deal to take place in an economy in which the
rate of private-sector unionization is in single digits just 3.5 percent of the
workforce. The current administration is not responsible for
the broad contours of this miserably misshapen recovery, but its every action
merely increases the imbalance of power between America's employers and
employees. But the Democrats' prescriptions for more broadly shared prosperity
need some tweaking, too. With the globalization of high-end professions, no
Democrat can assert quite so confidently the line that Bill Clinton used so
often: What you earn is a result of what you learn. This year's crop of
presidential candidates is taking more seriously the importance of labor
standards in trade accords, and the right of workers to organize. But they've
got a way to go to make the issue of stagnating incomes into the kind of battle
crying it should be in the campaign against Bush. If they're not up to it, I say
we out source them all and bring in some pools from Bangalore.
单选题
Which of the following might have contributed to the current miserably
misshapen recovery in the U.S.?
A. The New Deal.
B. The globalization of economy.
C. The economic policies adopted by the Bush administration.
D. U.S. workers are no longer capable of sharing the increase of nation's
income.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 事实细节题。 由第四段中的“the current recovery is not only the first to take place in all economy in which global wage rates are a factor” 和最后一段中的“with the globalization of high-end professions, no Democrat can assert quite so confidently the line...”可知，是经济的全球化才导致这一结果，而其他三项并无直接关系，且最后一段提到“The current administration is not responsible for the broad contours of this miserably misshapen recovery”。
单选题
The unemployment rate has been on the rise among U.S. software workers
mainly because of
A. outsourcing
B. the cheap supply of top electrical engineering graduates in India
C. the low starting salary for the software workers in India
D. the low unionization rate among software writers in the U.S.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 事实细节题。每一个选项在一定程度上都是美国软件工作人员失业率上升的原因。但是，由第一段中的“Outsourcing is certainly a big part of the picture”和“...are busily hiring employees from lower-wage nations instead of from our own.”和第二段第二句从印度引进人才的例子可知，最根本的原因还是从外引进所造成的。
单选题
It seems that the author is against ______.
A. the Bush administration
B. the Clinton administration
C. the decreased power of America's employees
D. more broadly shared prosperity
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 观点态度题。由最后一段第一句“...the imbalance of power between America's employers and employees.”可知，C为正确选项，A项也可由这一句的信息排除，作者只是说“file Democrats' prescriptions for more broadly shared prosperity need some tweaking”，但并不是反对，可排除D项。
单选题
The author believes that ______.
A. Democrats can help U.S. workers to increase their incomes
B. Bill Clinton pays more attention to U.S. workers' benefits than
Bush
C. what you earn is a result of what you learn
D. the notion that what you earn is a result of what you learn is out of
date
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 根据最后一段第四行的“...no Democrat can assert quite so confidently the line chat Bill Clinton used so often: What you earn is a result of what you learn.”可知，民主党不会再如此自信地主张克林顿经常说的话：你所赚取的财富是你学习的结果，据此可知，这一说法已经过时，所以应选D项。
单选题
The author's attitude toward the realization of more broadly shared
prosperity is somewhat ______.
A. optimistic
B. pessimistic
C. indifferent
D. biased
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 观点态度题。由最后一段“the Democrats' prescriptions for more broadly shared prosperity need some tweaking”，以及最后两句可看出作者对于政客们就提高雇员地位、增加工资方面所能起的作用抱有疑虑。