Day 17

英文重现

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“考虑做某事”时，可以说“consider doing sth.”，而不能说“consider to do sth.”。

2.整个句子比较长，关键是要理解“promoting…, assisting…, and encouraging…”与“mandating…”，二者处在并列的位置，跟在“consider”后面，表示要考虑的内容，这样分析之后，句子的结构就比较清晰了。

3.句子最后的“who explicitly indicate that preference”是定语从句，修饰“employees”。

词义辨析

参考翻译

政府的政策制定者应该考虑下令为临时工作者提供福利保险，促进临时工和长期工之间的工资平等，帮助工会组织临时工作者，并鼓励公司主要将临时工作提供给那些明确表示出喜好（临时工作）的员工。

实战演练

…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

这是一道排除题，所以我们可以将选项和原文的信息一一核对，原文中没有出现的选项或和原文信息不符的选项就是正确的选项。文中提到政府行动的句子是“Government policy makers should…indicate that preference”，其中“consider mandating benefit coverage for temporary employees”对应选项E“确保临时工人能从雇主那里获得利益”；“promoting pay equity between temporary and permanent workers”对应选项B“鼓励临时工人和长期工人之间工资平等”；“assisting labor unions in organizing temporary workers”对应选项C“帮助工会组织临时工人”；“encouraging firms to assign temporary jobs primarily to employees who explicitly indicate that preference”对应选项A“使公司主要将临时工作提供给某一特定人群”。只有选项D在文中没有出现，因此是正确选项。