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高三英语培优外刊阅读 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 外刊精选｜美国出现用工荒：人们为何不愿重回职场？ 随着病例新增的减少和疫苗接种率的提高，美国多地宣布放松或取消封锁令等防疫措施，消费者生活重回正轨，美国经济开始呈现出一派“繁荣”的景象。然而，美国却陷入了一个极不寻常的困境：数百万人因为疫情失去工作、在家待业，可是很多企业却难以招到员工。人们为什么不愿意重回工作岗位？美国又该如何扭转这一局面呢？ Millions Are Unemployed. Why Cant Companies Find Workers? By Eric Morath In a red-hot economy coming out of a pandemic and lockdowns, with unemployment still far higher than it was pre-Covid, the country is in a striking predicament. Businesses cant find enough people to hire. Rising vaccination rates, easing lockdowns and enormous amounts of federal stimulus aid are boosting consumer spending on goods and services. Yet employers in sectors like manufacturing, restaurants and construction are struggling to find workers. Surveys suggest why some cant or wont go back to work. Millions of adults say they arent working for fear of getting or spreading Covid-19. Businesses are reopening ahead of schools, leaving some parents without child care. Many people are receiving more in unemployment benefits than they would earn in the available jobs. Some who are out of work dont have the skills needed for jobs that are available or are unwilling to switch to a new career. Analysts say the labor shortages should ease over time as more potential workers are vaccinated, schools fully reopen and federal benefits expire, though the process could take months and the impacts are already being felt. The pandemic has changed peoples motivations, said ZipRecruiter economist Julia Pollak. Employers may need to be patient, as vaccines are still being rolled out, and may have to become more flexible in order to find workers. 【词汇过关】 请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。 1.red-hot [?red?h?t] adj. ____________________________ 2.striking [?stra?k??] adj. ____________________________ 3.predicament [pr??d?k?m?nt] n.____________________________ 4.ease [i?z] vt. /vi.____________________________ 5.aid [e?d] n. ____________________________ 6.boost [bu?st] vt./n. ____________________________