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In this environment, it is shocking that one group of Americans, people with disabilities, have such a high level of unemployment: 30% are not employed the same percentage as when the Americans with Disabilities Act became law. Not only did their employment and labor earnings fall during the recession of the early 1990s, but employment and earnings continued to fall during the long economic expansion that followed. Many of these people are skilled professionals who are highly marketable in today's economy.
Part of the problem is discrimination, and part recent court rulings favoring employers in ADA lawsuits. Discrimination against people with disabilities is, unfortunately, alive and well, despite the legal prohibitions against discrimination in hiring people with disabilities. 79% of disabled people who are unemployed cite discrimination in the workplace and lack of transportation as major factors that prevent them from working. Studies have also shown that people with disabilities who find jobs earn less than their co-workers, and are less likely to be promoted.
Unfavorable court rulings have not been helpful, either. Research by law professor Ruth Colker of Ohio State University has shown that in the eight years after the ADA went into effect, employer-defendants prevailed in more than 93% of the eases decided by trial. Of the cases appealed, employers prevailed 84% of the time. Robert Burgdorf, Ir., who helped draft the ADA, has written, "legal analysis has proceeded quite a way down the wrong road". Disability activists and other legal scholars point out that Congress intended the ADA as a national mandate for the ending of discrimination against people-with disabilities. Instead, what has occurred, in the words of one writer, is that the courts "have narrowed the scope of the law, redefined 'disability,' raised the price of access to justice and generally deemed disability discrimination as not worthy of serious remedy".
But perhaps the greatest single problem is the federal government itself, where laws and regulations designed to help disabled people actually provide an economic disincentive to work. As Sen. Edward Kennedy wrote, "the high unemployment rate among people receiving federal disability benefits is not because their federal benefits programs have 'front doors that are too big', but because they have 'back doors that are too small'".
The advertisement made by Microsoft shows that _____.
A．a great number of jobs have been created in the U.S..
B．foreign workers are favored over domestic workers.
C．working visa is very hard to be issued to foreign workers.
D．many domestic workers will lose their jobs to foreigners.
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第1题
第3题
英译中
In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual.
第4题
A.1910s
B.1920s
C.1930s
D.1940s
第5题
In the second paragraph, the author mainly concentrates on the（）
[A] tendency of American economy
[B]contribution American households have made to the economy
[C]low efficiency of the government
[D]progress toward digital transformation
第6题
A suitable title for this text might be（）
[A] How to Develop U.S. Economy
[B] The Relation between American Industry and New Economy
[C]Digital Engine Powers New Economy
[D] Our New Policy on Economy
第7题
英译中
The American economic system is, organized around a basically private-enterprise, market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most.
第8题
A．Top American manager.
B．Global capitalism.
C．Technology and economic integration.
D．The global labor force.
第9题
[A] the majority of American people are not interested in getting Ph.D．
[B]foreign students are more eager to get Ph. D．
[C] the American education has lagged behind in the New Economy
[D]American students are not as clever as foreign students
第10题
An important factor in a market-oriented economy is the mechanism by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers. In the American economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and fall in response to relative demands of consumers and supplies offered by seller-producers. If the product is in short supply relative to the demand, the price will be a bit up and some consumers will be eliminated from the market. If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product. Thus, price is the regulating mechanism in the American economic system.
The important factor in a private-oriented economy is that individuals are allowed to own productive resources (private property), and they are permitted to hire labor, gain control over natural resources, and produce goods and services for sale at a profit. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual.
In Line 9, Para.1, "the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes" means ______.
A．Americans are never satisfied with their incomes
B．Americans tend to overstate their incomes
C．Americans want to have their incomes increased
D．Americans want to increase the purchasing power of their incomes
第11题
We may think of the American economy, as consisting of two completely different sectors.The world of the giant corporations, which can be called the "industrial system", consists of 500 or 600 firms that provide "nearly all communications, nearly all production and distribution of electric power, much transportation, most manufacturing and mining, a substantial share of retail trade, and a considerable amount of entertainment." Outside of this industrial system fall most agricultural enterprises, some mining and trucking, professional and artistic pursuits, some retail trade, and most personal and domestic services.
The classical economic laws of supply and demand still apply to some degree.But today the industrial sector is characterized far more by planning and certainty than by the free play of market forces.It appears that it could scarcely be otherwise.In large corporations with advanced technological systems and complex organizations of highly trained specialists, plans for producing any one item are made well in advance.Such plans, once made, are hard to change.Because long-term planning demands certainty, market forces are avoided by various means.For example, the corporation may achieve "vertical integration" by buying companies that supply raw materials at one end of the process and distribution outlets at the other.Corporations may agree on "just prices" for things they buy and sell.They may enter mutually advantageous long-term contracts with suppliers and customers.Moreover, in their quest for certainty they generally have the support of the state.
26.The American giant corporations possess so many new characteristics that
A) highly educated managers are important for the corporations
B giant corporations become decentralized
C economic laws of the market are effective inside corporations
D heads of the giant corporations try to control the government
27.By the second paragraph, we know that .
A retail trade accounts for a big part in non-industrial system
B there are more giant corporations than agricultural enterprises
C giant corporations control every part of American economy
D giant corporations provide most of productions and services
28.From the whole passage, we can infer that American economy .
A is experiencing the rise of giant corporations
B is determined by hundreds of giant corporations
C has failed to balance supply and demand
D becomes highly-planned one
29.In the third sentence of last paragraph, the second "it" may refer to.
A classic economic law of supply and demand
B industrial sector
C American economy
D market force
30.Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage？
A American economy is characterized by high technology and giant corporations.
B American economy consists of industrial systems and agricultural enterprises.
C.Market economy is gradually replaced by planned economy.
D Highly trained specialists are needed.
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