王长喜-六考试标准阅读60篇41-50.docVIP

第四十一篇：(Unit?11,Passage?1) In?the?last?12?years?total?employment?in?the?United?States?grew?faster?than?at?any?time?in?the?peacetime?history?of?any?country?–?from?82?to?110?million?between?1973?and?1985?–?that?is,?by?a?full?one?third.?The?entire?growth,?however,?was?in?manufacturing,?and?especially?in?no?–?blue-collar?jobs… This?trend?is?the?same?in?all?developed?countries,?and?is,?indeed,?even?more?pronounced?in?Japan.?It?is?therefore?highly?probable?that?in?25?years?developed?countries?such?as?the?United?States?and?Japan?will?employ?no?larger?a?proportion?of?the?labor?force?I?n?manufacturing?