2019-2020学年武汉二中广雅中学高三英语上学期期中试题及答案

2019-2020学年武汉二中广雅中学高三英语上学期期中试题及答案

第一部分 阅读（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项

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plete the courses on time.

B

In Japan many workers for large corporations have a guarantee of lifetime employment. They will not be laid

off during recessions or when the tasks they perform are taken over by robots. To some observers, this is

capitalism at its best, because workers are treated as people not things. Others see it as necessarily inefficient and

believe it cannot continue if Japan is to remain competitive with foreign corporations more concerned about

profits and less concerned about people.

Defenders of the system argue that those who call it inefficient do not understand how it really works. In the

first place not every Japanese worker has the guarantee of a lifetime job. The lifetime employment system

includes only “regular employees.” Many employees do not fall into this category, including all women. All

businesses have many part time and temporary employees. These workers are hired and laid off during the course

of the business cycle just as employees in the United States are. These “irregular workers” make up about 10

percent of the nonagricultural work force. Additionally, Japanese firms maintain some flexibility through the

extensive use of subcontractors. This practice is much more common in Japan than in the United States. The use of both subcontractors and temporary workers has increased markedly in Japan since the 1974-1975

recession. All this leads some people to argue that the Japanese system really is not all that different from the

American system. During recessions Japanese corporations lay off temporary workers and give less business to

subcontractors. In the United States, corporations lay off those workers with the least working experience. The

difference then is probably less than the term “lifetime employment” suggests, but there still is a difference. And

this difference cannot be understood without looking at the values of Japanese society. The relationship between

employer and employee cannot be explained in purely contractual terms. Firms hold on to the employees and that

employees stay with one firm. There are also practical reasons for not jumping from job to job. Most retirement