2007年12月英语六级短文改错(三十二)

综合训练

Last year's economy should have won the Oscar for the best picture.
growth in gross domestic product was 4.1 percents; profits soared; exports ___1___
flourished; and inflation stayed around 3 percent for the third year. Though ___2___
why so many Americans give the picture a lousy B rating? The answer is
jobs. The microeconomic situation was good, and the microeconomic ___3___
numbers were not. Yes, 3 million new jobs were there, but not enough of them
were temporary, good jobs paying enough to support a family. Job ___4___
insecurity was rampant（猖獗的）. Even as they announced higher sales and
profits, corporations acted as if they were in a tailspin, cutting 516,069 jobs
in 1994 alone, almost as much as in the recession year of 1991. ___5___
Yes, unemployment went down. But over 1 million workers were so
couraged that they left the labor force. More than 6 million who wanted ___6___
fulltime job were only partially employed; and another large group was either
unqualified or sheltered behind the euphemism of self-employment. We lost
a million good manufacturing jobs between 1990 and 1995, continuing the
trend the blue-collar work force has been reduced from about 30 percent in ___7___
the 1950s to about half that today. White-collar workers found out they are ___8___
no longer immue. For the first time, they were let go in numbers virtually
equal to those for blue-collar workers. Many resorted in temporary work ___9___
with lower pay, fewer benefits but less status. ___10___
All that in a country where people meet for the first time would say ,
“what do you do?”

参考答案及解析:
1. percents -> percent
用percent表示百分数时，只需用基数词加上单数percent即可。

2. Though -> But

3. and -> but

4. temporary -> permanent
根据句意：尽管有300万个新的工作职位，但长久的工作岗位是不足够的。temporary意为“临时的，暂时的”，permanent意为“永久的，固定的”，根据but和not enough可知应该是没有足够的长久工作岗位。

5. much -> many
此处的many修饰前面的jobs，相当于almost as many (jobs) as in the recession year of 1991。由于job是可数名词，故应该用many修饰。

6. couraged -> discouraged
根据上下文，短期的工作使工人失望，所以应该使用discouraged。

7. trend后加that
此处trend后是一个完整的句子，根据意思这句话是解释说明trend的同位语从句，故要加上引导词that。注：同位语从句的that不能省略。

8. are -> were
根据整篇文章的时态和主句的谓语动词found out可知此处要用过去时。

9. in -> to
eesort to是固定搭配，意为“求助于….，采取”。

10. but -> and
此句句意为“很多人都会做工资少、福利少和低职位的临时工”。 此处lower pay, fewer benefits 和less status都属于同级，因此应该是并列关系而不是转折关系。