Employment practices often reflect the needs of employers veral decades ago．Ti

题文

Employment practices often reflect the needs of employers veral decades ago．Times have changed．And so too has the Canadian workforce．Yet many employment practices have not kept pace with this change．For example, some work environments and washrooms designed for able-bodied workers ldom accommodate people who u a wheelchair．Modernizing the practices is what employment equality is about．For example, making sure work benches and washrooms are adapted for disabled people entering the workplace paves the way for workers who become disabled on the job．By doing so, any given group of people? formerly discriminated against-now has access to better employment opportunities．The objective, of cour, is to make the workplace reflect Canadian society．However, this does not necessarily mean tting and enforcing quotas(实行配额）. Rather, it means identifying the barriers to employment and designing measures, with achievable goals and clear timetables, to remove them．For example, according to the Canadian Union of Public Employees-Canada’s largest union, it would be unrealistic in the short term to insist that becau half of the working age population is women, that half of the employees of an engineering firm should be women．At this moment, there would not be enough qualified female engineers．A reasonable numerical goal would be bad on the number of women who actually are engineers （8% ） and tho who are studying to become engineers （25% ）．A short term goal of 13% would be appropriate without running the risk of hiring unqualified people．Equally important is to ensure people who have been disadvantaged the chance to become qualified for new opportunities．If aboriginal people （土著居民） , for example, can’t qualify for certain jobs becau they haven’t had access to appropriate educational opportunities, then an employment equality program would have to address that problem with training programs.Employment laws in this country cannot be considered displeasing if they guarantee all Canadians fair and equal access to the workforce.小题1:The passage is mainly about how to ____.A．modernize equipment for the disabled at workB．achieve equality of employment opportunitiesC．protect women’s rights in employmentD．complete a job training program小题2:The underlined word "them" in Paragraph 3 refers to ____.A．barriersB．measuresC．goalsD．timetables小题3:The example of women shows that ____.A．only a small percentage of women engineers will get promotedB．13% of the working age women should be hired as engineersC．policy makers should adopt a practical and flexible approachD．the quota of women for employment should be raid小题4:The underlined word "address" in Paragraph 6 probably means _A．put forwardB．run intoC．find outD．deal with 题型：未知难度：其他题型

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小题1:B小题1:A小题1:C小题1:D

解析

语篇解读本文主要就如何实现加拿大的就业机会平等这个话题进行了讨论。小题1:主旨大意题。分析文章内容可得到答案——1～2 段提到如何改进工作条件，让残疾人可以上班；3～5 段讲述了如何制定措施消除雇佣障碍；第 6 段则提到如何让土著居民得到平等就业的机会。由此可知，B 项是本文的主要内容。小题1:代词指代题。根据这句话前半句可知，这里的 them 指代前面说的障碍barriers。答案： A小题1:推理判断题。根据四、五两段有关女性就业情况的描述可知，不能因为女性占工作年龄人口的一半就让女员工占机械厂总员工的一半，而要根据女性的实际情况来确定雇佣人数，由此可知 C 项正确。小题1:猜测词义题。根据上下文内容以及画线单词后面的“that problem with training programs”可知，D 项符合题意，即解决问题。答案： D

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据考高分专家说，试题“Employment practices.....”主要考查你对 [日常生活类阅读 ]考点的理解。 日常生活类阅读

日常生活类阅读的概念：

日常生活这一话题主要涉及人们衣食住行等方面的活动。这一话题的选材主要针对人们日常的工作，生活以及学习情况。做这一类题时，最主要的是要把握好人物的活动内容，时间和地点。

日常生活类阅读题答题技巧：

【题型说明】该类文章内容涉及到人们的言谈举止、生活习惯、饮食起居、服饰仪表、恋爱婚姻、消遣娱乐、节日起源、家庭生活等。文章篇幅短小，追根溯源，探索各项风俗的历史渊源，内容有趣。命题也以送分题为主，如事实细节题、语义转换题、词义猜测题和简单推理判断题等。虽然这类文章读起来感觉轻松，试题做起来比较顺手，但绝不能掉以轻心。因为稍不留神，就会丢分。 【备考提醒】为了保证较高准确率，建议同学们做好以下几点： 1、保持正常的考试心态。笔者在教学中发现，越是容易的试题，同学们越是容易失分。为什么呢？因为在这种情况下，同学们极易产生麻痹思想，认为题目好做，就不引起高度重视，于是思维不发散、不周密。而命题人就是利用同学们的这一弱点，设计陷阱题。所以，无论试题难易与否，我们都要保持正常的考试心态。试题容易，不欣喜；试题难，不悲观。 2、根据前面讲到的方法，认认真真、细细心心做好事实细节题。 3、做好语义转换题。这类题是根据英语中一词多义和某些词语在文中能表达一定的修辞意义的原则而设计的。要求同学们解释某生词的含义，确定多义词或短语在文中的意思，确认文中的某个代词所指代的对象，或者对英语中特有的表达、格言、谚语进行解释。这种题要求同学们一定要根据上下文猜测词义或理解句子，切不可望文生义。 4、做好简单推理判断题。简单推理判断题要以表面文字为前提，以具体事实为依据进行推理，做出判断。这种推理方式比较直接，只要弄清事实，即可结合常识推断出合理的结论。