Day 17

英文重現

Government policy makers should consider mandating benefit coverage for temporary employees, promoting pay equity between temporary and permanent workers, assisting labor unions in organizing temporary workers, and encouraging firms to assign temporary jobs primarily to employees who explicitly indicate that preference.

——GMAT OG 2015, Reading Comprehension, Passage 12

解析

1.表示“考慮做某事”時，可以說“consider doing sth.”，而不能說“consider to do sth.”。

2.整個句子比較長，關鍵是要理解“promoting…, assisting…, and encouraging…”與“mandating…”，二者處在并列的位置，跟在“consider”后面，表示要考慮的內容，這樣分析之后，句子的結構就比較清晰了。

3.句子最后的“who explicitly indicate that preference”是定語從句，修飾“employees”。

詞義辨析

參考翻譯

政府的政策制定者應該考慮下令為臨時工作者提供福利保險，促進臨時工和長期工之間的工資平等，幫助工會組織臨時工作者，并鼓勵公司主要將臨時工作提供給那些明確表示出喜好（臨時工作）的員工。

實戰演練

…Given the analyses, which reveal that growth in temporary employment now far exceeds the level explainable by recent workforce entry rates of groups said to prefer temporary jobs, firms should be discouraged from creating excessive numbers of temporary positions. Government policy makers should consider mandating benefit coverage for temporary employees, promoting pay equity between temporary and permanent workers, assisting labor unions in organizing temporary workers, and encouraging firms to assign temporary jobs primarily to employees who explicitly indicate that preference.

The passage mentions each of the following as an appropriate kind of governmental action EXCEPT

(A) getting firms to offer temporary employment primarily to a certain group of people.

(B) encouraging equitable pay for temporary and permanent employees.

(C) facilitating the organization of temporary workers by labor unions.

(D) establishing guidelines on the proportion of temporary workers that firms should employ.

(E) ensuring that temporary workers obtain benefits from their employers.

答案：D

答案解析

這是一道排除題，所以我們可以將選項和原文的信息一一核對，原文中沒有出現的選項或和原文信息不符的選項就是正確的選項。文中提到政府行動的句子是“Government policy makers should…indicate that preference”，其中“consider mandating benefit coverage for temporary employees”對應選項E“確保臨時工人能從雇主那里獲得利益”；“promoting pay equity between temporary and permanent workers”對應選項B“鼓勵臨時工人和長期工人之間工資平等”；“assisting labor unions in organizing temporary workers”對應選項C“幫助工會組織臨時工人”；“encouraging firms to assign temporary jobs primarily to employees who explicitly indicate that preference”對應選項A“使公司主要將臨時工作提供給某一特定人群”。只有選項D在文中沒有出現，因此是正確選項。