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In 1988 services moved ahead of manufacturing as the main product of the United States economy. But what is meant by "services" ? Some economists define a service as something that is produced and consumed simultaneously, for example, a haircut. The broader, classical definition is that a service is an intangible something that cannot be touched or stored. Yet electric utilities can store energy, and computer programmers save information electronically. Thus, the classical definition is hard to sustain.
The United States government’s definition is more practical: services are the residual category that includes everything that is not agriculture or industry. Under this definition, services includes activities as diverse as engineering and driving a bus. However, besides lacking a strong conceptual framework, this definition fails to recognize the distinction between service industries and service occupations. It categorizes workers based on their company’s final product rather than on the actual work the employees perform. Thus, the many service workers employed by manufacturers— bookkeepers or janitors, for example—would fall under the industrial rather than the services category. Such ambiguities reveal the arbitrariness of this definition and suggest that, although practical for government purposes, it does not accurately reflect the composition of the current United States economy.
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主旨题，本文主要讨论了服务业的若干定义并对各定义进行了评价
A错误，文中未涉及research data
B错误，作者没有表示支持采用哪种定义
C正确，符合作者意图
D错误，作者并没有对比几个定义的优势
E错误，文中并没有澄清一些模棱两可的定义
argue for 为赞成...而辩论。
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2022-02-15 00:40:06
argue for 支持
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2018-10-12 15:21:58
争论特定定义的适用性 不对吗？
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2018-07-03 14:32:20
为什么不能选B呢？ 没有支持采用哪种？B选项里说a particular definition不就一种？
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2018-07-03 14:31:27
文章结构 首段 提出经济学家以及古典两个对于服务业的定义，但是指出缺点 第二段 指出政府对于服务业的定义 提出优点 但是也有缺点 作者没有认可任何一个定义 所以是探索不是澄清 也不是比较各种定义的优缺点
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