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Directions:In this part there is a short passage with five questions or incomplete statements.Read the passage carefully.Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.(Not exceeding 10words.)
A labor dispute which had idled over 800,000 workers in Sweden, a nation with a reputation for labor peace,ended May 11,when unions aGREed to wage increases of about 7 percent.The country had been crippled by the labor crisis,which had begun May 2 when the employers had locked out 770,000 workers and labor unions had responded with strikes involving more than 100,000 other workers.About one fifth of the country's workers were involved in the dispute.“Labor and capital can no longer cooperate in the fine oil spirit.”commented Gunnar Nilsson,chairman of the union confederation.
Questions
1.How many workers stayed away from work during the labor crisis?
2.We can infer from the passage that the total number of workers in Sweden is _______.
3.What was the immediate cause of the strike?
4.Why was the labor dispute brought to an end?
5.The phrase“lock out”most likely means .
参考答案
1.More than 870,000.
2.about 4,350,000 workers.
3.Factory owners refused to let workers come to work.
4.The employer's offer of wage increases was accepted.
5.to prevent workers from working in factories /to not allow workers to go back to work
解题分析
1.该题为数字计算题。从the employers had locked out 770,000 workers and labor unions has responded with strikes involving more than 100,000other workers可知,770,000+100,000=870,000。
2由About one fifth of the country's workers were involved in the dispute.一句可知870,000占全国工人总数的五分之一。由此继续推算得出工人总数为4,350,000。
3从The country had been crippled by the labor crisis,which had begun May 2 when the employers had locked out 770,000workers and labor unions has responded with strikes involving more than 100,000 other workers.可知,罢工的起因是Factory owners refused to let workers come to work.
4.由(The strike)ended May 11,when unions aGREed to wage increases of about 7percent.可知,冲突结束的原因是The employer's offer of wage increases was accepted.
5.从上下文语境中可以推出“lock out”意思是to prevent workers from working in factories或to not allow workers to go back to work。 |