2018高级会计师《职称英语》基础班：阅读理解7

很多地区对考生职称英语的能力还有要求，今天华宇小编为大家准备了高会职称英语练习题，在备考高级会计实务的同时不要忘记学习高级会计师职称英语哦。

Importance of Services

(服务业的重要性)

【题目】

1.The first paragraph intends to tell us that_____

“第一段意在告诉我们_____”——主旨题

2.Between 1966 and 1986,the United States created about____

“1966-1986年间，美国创造____”——细节题

3.Many economists,business and labor leaders and politicians believe that____

“许多经济学家、商人和工会首脑和政治家们相信__”——推理题

4.The importance of services can be shown_____

“服务的重要性可以被看出____”——细节题

5.What does the writer of this passage disapprove of regarding services now?

“现在对于服务业作者有什么不满?”——推理题

1.The United States has moved beyond the industrial economy stage to the point where it has become the world’s first service economy. Almost three-fourths of the nonfarm labor force is employed in service industries, and over two-thirds of the nation’s gross national product is accounted for by services. Also, service jobs typically hold up better during a recession than do jobs in industries producing tangible goods.

美国已经跨越了工业经济的阶段，成为世界上第一个服务型经济的国家。几乎3/4的非农业劳动力受雇于服务业。服务业的产值在国民生产总值中所占比例已超过2/3。而且，服务业的工作往往要比从事生产有形商品的工作更能经受经济萧条的打击。

2.During the 20-year period of 1966 to 1986, about 36 million new jobs were created in the United States—far more than in Japan and Western Europe combined. About 90 percent of these jobs were in service industries. During this same time span, some 22 million women joined the labor force—and 97 percent of these women went to work in the service sector.

These employment trends are expected to continue at least until the year 2000. For the period 1986-2000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that over 21 million new jobs will be created and 93 percent of them will be in service industries.

从1966年至1986年这20年间，美国新增加了大约3600万个工作，比日本和西欧合起来还多。这些工作约有90%是服务性工作。在这同一时期，有2200万妇女也加入到劳动大军中来，其中有97%在服务业工作。这种就业趋势可望持续到2000年。美国劳动统计局预测，在1986年至2000年期间，大约将增加2100万个工作，其中93%来自服务业。

3.Moreover, most of this explosive growth in services employment is not in low-paying jobs, contrary to the beliefs of many economists, business and labor leaders, and politicians. These people argue that manufacturing jobs, which have been the economic foundation of America’s middle class, are vanishing.

They claim that factory workers are being replaced with a host of low-wage earners. It is true that manufacturing jobs have declined, with many of them going to foreign countries. It is also true that there has been growth in some low-paying service jobs.

Yet cooks and counter people still represent only 1 percent of the U.S. labor force today. Furthermore, for many years the fastest-growing occupational category has been“professional, technical, and related work”.These jobs pay well above the average, and most are in service industries.

而且，服务行业就业率的这种爆炸性增长大部分并不是低薪的工作，这与许多经济学家、商人、工会首脑和政界人士的观点相反。这些人争论说，已经是美国中产阶级经济基础的生产性工作正在消失。他们声称，产业工人正被一大群低工资的打工仔所代替。的确，生产性工作已经减少，有些生产性工作流向了国外。也确实有一些低报酬的服务型工作已经有所增长。然而像厨师或售货员的人数仍然仅占美国当今劳工队伍的1%。而且多年来发展快的职业种类一直是“职业性的、技术性的以及有关的工作”。这些工作的报酬高于平均工资，而它们大部分都在服务业。

4.About one-half of consumer expenditures are for the purchase of services. Projections to the year 2000 indicate that services will attract an even larger share of consumer spending.

A drawback of the service economy boom is that the prices of most services have been going up at a considerably faster rate than the prices of most tangible products. You are undoubtedly aware of this if you have had your car or TV set repaired, had your shoes half-soled, or paid a medical bill in recent years.

消费开支大约有1/2是以购买服务的目的的。到2000年的规划表明，服务业将吸引一个更大的消费开支份额。服务型公司繁荣发展的一个缺点是，大部分服务的价格比大部分有形商品的价格上涨要快得多。如果今年来你修理过汽车或彩电，你的鞋子打过后掌或者你支付过医药费，毫无疑问你会清楚这一点。