题目

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Employment practices often reflect the needs of employers several decades ago．Times have changed．And so too has the Canadian workforce．Yet many employment practices have not kept pace with this change．For example, some work environments and washrooms designed for able-bodied workers seldom accommodate people who use a wheelchair．
Modernizing these practices is what employment equality is about．For example, making sure work benches and washrooms are adapted for disabled people entering the workplace paves the way for workers who become disabled on the job．By doing so, any given group of people? formerly discriminated against-now has access to better employment opportunities．
The objective, of course, is to make the workplace reflect Canadian society．However, this does not necessarily mean setting and enforcing quotas(实行配额）. Rather, it means identifying the barriers to employment and designing measures, with achievable goals and clear timetables, to remove them．
For example, according to the Canadian Union of Public Employees-Canada’s largest union, it would be unrealistic in the short term to insist that because half of the working age population is women, that half of the employees of an engineering firm should be women．At this moment, there would not be enough qualified female engineers．
A reasonable numerical goal would be based on the number of women who actually are engineers （8% ） and those who are studying to become engineers （25% ）．A short term goal of 13% would be appropriate without running the risk of hiring unqualified people．
Equally important is to ensure people who have been disadvantaged the chance to become qualified for new opportunities．If aboriginal people （土著居民） , for example, can’t qualify for certain jobs because they haven’t had access to appropriate educational opportunities, then an employment equality program would have to address that problem with training programs.
Employment laws in this country cannot be considered displeasing if they guarantee all Canadians fair and equal access to the workforce.
小题1:The passage is mainly about how to ____.

A．modernize equipment for the disabled at work

B．achieve equality of employment opportunities

C．protect women’s rights in employment

D．complete a job training program

小题2:The underlined word "them" in Paragraph 3 refers to ____.

A．barriers

B．measures

C．goals

D．timetables

小题3:The example of women shows that ____.

A．only a small percentage of women engineers will get promoted

B．13% of the working age women should be hired as engineers

C．policy makers should adopt a practical and flexible approach

D．the quota of women for employment should be raised

小题4:The underlined word "address" in Paragraph 6 probably means _

A．put forward

B．run into

C．find out

D．deal with

答案

小题1:B小题1:A小题1:C小题1:D

解析

语篇解读本文主要就如何实现加拿大的就业机会平等这个话题进行了讨论。
小题1:主旨大意题。分析文章内容可得到答案——1～2 段提到如何改进工作条件，让残疾人可以上班；3～5 段讲述了如何制定措施消除雇佣障碍；第 6 段则提到如何让土著居民得到平等就业的机会。由此可知，B 项是本文的主要内容。
小题1:代词指代题。根据这句话前半句可知，这里的 them 指代前面说的障碍barriers。答案： A
小题1:推理判断题。根据四、五两段有关女性就业情况的描述可知，不能因为女性占工作年龄人口的一半就让女员工占机械厂总员工的一半，而要根据女性的实际情况来确定雇佣人数，由此可知 C 项正确。
小题1:猜测词义题。根据上下文内容以及画线单词后面的“that problem with training programs”可知，D 项符合题意，即解决问题。答案： D