The passage suggests which of the following about service workers in the United States?答案解析-雷哥GMAT

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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.

The passage suggests which of the following about service workers in the United States?

A

The number of service workers may be underestimated by the definition of services used by the government. 分析A选项
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B

There were fewer service workers than agricultural workers before 1988. 分析B选项
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C

The number of service workers was almost equal to the number of workers employed in manufacturing until 1988. 分析C选项
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D

Most service workers are employed in service occupations rather than in service industries. 分析D选项
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E

Most service workers are employed in occupations where they provide services that do not fall under the classical definition of services. 分析E选项
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定位于文中关于第二段关于service workers的相关内容。文中提到，按照美国政府对于服务业的定义，服务业的从业人员会被归到工业领域，由此可以推断，服务业从业人员的数量被低估了。
A正确，其中的underestimated非常符合文章的意思
B错误，fewer不对，因为文章没有将两种行业的从业人数进行对比
C错误，equal to不对，因为文中并未涉及服务业和制造业的从业人员的数量
D错误，文中也没有建立如此的比较关系
E错误，与服务业的传统定义无关

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陈咩咩女士要加油

A：按照文中意思，很多服务业工人会被归类到工业工人的范畴中，因此服务业工人的数量会被低估

0 0 回复 2020-10-01 17:33:56
米粒要上720

A 低估是因为被归入工业而不是服务业，正确 B/C 段落定位错误，1988 出现在第一段 D/E most 不等于many

0 0 回复 2020-04-11 20:49:39
妞妞的大奋斗

D选项的内容在文中没有体现只是说这个政府的定义没有区分这两个概念

0 0 回复 2018-06-22 16:11:59
妞妞的大奋斗

好好进行原文的定位注意看文章原文说的是被工厂雇佣的服务人员被政府的定义划在工业中所以服务业的人员被低估

0 0 回复 2018-06-22 16:09:47
SH-ZXM

D、E：most不对

0 0 回复 2016-10-20 16:42:24
进步大于完美回复SH-ZXM

认同你的观点，这里的many不能等价于most

0 0 回复 2018-05-22 16:11:33