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The home service industry in Beijing is expected to become more attractive
both as a job and as an industry. Sources at the Beijing People's Political
Consultative Conference said resistance to home service work is melting away
from minds of the city's laid-off workers. The Conference suggested the
establishment of municipal centers which supervise property management,
household mending and installation, and house keeping services. Modern city life
is creating a need for industrialization home services. This will create job
opportunities for laid-off workers, said Vice director of the Social Judicial
Committee of the Conference. Beijing residents have long desired a home service
industry. The demand is expected to drive new economic growth. There are few
high quality home help services in Beijing and customers are always complaining.
In the past, few laid-off workers in Beijing desired to work as home helpers,
jobs largely taken by young women from the countryside. At the same time, some
city residents have not felt safe trusting rural girls with modern household
machines or with their small children. Many people would pay more for reliable
house keepers who are more familiar with city life, but they have had no way of
getting one, even though the city is home to thousands of laid-off workers. By
the end of June this year, there were 30,600 jobless workers in the city. Most
of them are women in their 40's, who are not blessed with particular skills and
who have had their work ethics shaped by the planned economy. Many of them were
at a loss when they first realized they had lost their jobs and a way of life
they had got used to for decades. They never imagined being laid-off by
state-owned enterprises; they never considered other kinds of employment. For
them, the private sector meant taking risks; housekeeping implied lower social
status. Gao yunfang, 44, is a pioneer who is breaking the ice. She sells the
Beijing Morning Post in the morning, and works at two households in the
afternoon. She earns 1,000 yuan per month. So she no longer worries about her
daughter's tuition at a university in Shanghai.
57. What is talked about in the passage?
A) Home service. B) Modern city life. C) Laid-off worker. D) Social
status.
58. What does the word "laid-off' in the passage mean?
A) Heavily-burdened. B) Old. C) Inexperienced. D) Jobless.
59. Why were many laid-off workers at a loss?
A) Because they didn't get used to the new way of life.
B) Because they are too old to find a new job.
C) Because they dislike being laid off.
D) Because they think they lost their social status.
60. Why didn't the laid-off workers like to do home services in the
past?
A) Low salary. B) Lower social status. C) Dirty working condition. D) Too
much extra work.
61. In which ways is home service industry good for our society?
A) It meets the needs of modern life.
B) It provides work opportunities for the laid-off worker.
C) It is a new industry.
D) A and B.
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发表于 2017-8-12 12:10:26