GMAT阅读文章《服务业的定义》深度分析.pdfVIP

新东方网GMAT 频道(gmat.xdf.cn) GMAT 阅读文章 《服务业的定义》深度分析 北京新东方学校 北美部 GMAT 项目组 李昊 周帆 阅读建议： 1 ）建议读者先按自己的节奏阅读文章并做完题目，再看文章分析及题目讲解。 文章及题目： line 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 (5) 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 (10) 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 (15) 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 (20) 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