2025年6月英语六级听力真题 卷一 文章2

Passage Two

文章二

There are at least four major problems with work in America today.

当今美国的工作至少存在四个主要问题。

First, work can be alienating.

首先，工作可能造成疏离感。

Workers are often not in control of how they work, When they work, what is done with goods and services they produce, and what is done with the profits made from their work.

工人通常无法控制他们的工作方式、工作时间、他们生产的商品和服务的去向，以及他们劳动产生的利润的用途。

Second, workers are not paid the full value of their Labour real wages have not kept pace with productivity, driving economic inequality and a decline in labor share of income.

其次，工人未能获得其劳动创造的全部价值。实际工资未能跟上生产率增长的步伐，这加剧了经济不平等，并导致劳动收入份额下降。

Third, people are time poor.

第三，人们处于时间贫困 (time poor) 状态。

In the US, full time employees work an average of 8.72 hour per day, despite productivity increases,

在美国，尽管生产率有所提高,全职雇员平均每天工作 8.72 小时 。

long working hours contribute to the feeling of time poverty, which has an adverse effect on psychological well being.

长时间的工作时间加剧了时间贫困感，这对心理健康产生了不利影响。

Forth, Automation puts jobs and wages at risk.

第四 (Forth)，自动化使工作和工资面临风险。

Technological innovation could, in theory, liberate people from the 40 hour work week, but unless changes are made to the structure of work,

理论上，技术创新可以将人们从每周40小时的工作制中解放出来，但除非改变工作结构，

automation will simply exert downward pressure on wages and further diminish work opportunities.

否则自动化只会对工资施加下行压力，并进一步减少工作机会。

So what can be done to alleviate these problems?

那么，可以做些什么来缓解这些问题呢？

There are competing visions of the best way to arrive at a solution.

关于达成解决方案的最佳途径，存在不同的观点。

One vision is what's known as the postwork position.

其中一种观点被称为后工作立场

The postwork theorists believe that work should not hold a central position in our lives or take up so much of our time.

后工作理论家认为，工作在我们的生活中不应占据核心地位，也不应占用我们如此多的时间。

They assert that although doing some work might be necessary, meaning, purpose and social value reside in the communities and relationships built and sustained outside of the workplace.

他们断言，尽管做某些工作可能是必要的，但意义、目的和社会价值存在于工作场所之外建立和维持的社群与关系中。

Thus, life should be seen as an end in itself.

因此，生活本身应被视为目的。

Questions twelve to fifteen are based on the Passage you have just heard.

问题十二至十五基于你刚刚听到的文章。

Question twelve What do we learn about American workers from the Passage?

问题十二： 我们从文章中了解到关于美国工人的什么信息？

Question thirteen What does the Passage say long working hours contribute to?

问题十三： 文章说长时间的工作时间导致了什么？

Question fourteen What does automation do according to the Passage?

问题十四： 根据文章，自动化做了什么？

Question fifteen What do postwork theorists advocate?

问题十五： 后工作理论家主张什么？

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