Despite a cooling of the economy, high-technology companies are still crying out for skilled workers. The Information Technology Association of America projects that more than 800, 000 technology jobs will go unfilled next year. The lack of qualified workers poses a huge threat to the U. S. economy.
The most commonly cited reason for this state of affairs is that the country's agrarian-age (农村时代) education system fails to prepare students in the primary and secondary grades for the 21st century work. Yet an inadequate and outmoded education system is only part of the problem. A less tangible (明确的) but equally powerful cause is an antique (过时的) classification system that divides the workforce into two camps; white-collar knowledge workers and blue-collar manual laborers.
Blue-collar workers emerged in the United States during the Industrial Age as work moved from farms to factories. White-collar office workers became a significant class in the twentieth century, outnumbering(多于) the blue-collar workers by mid-century. Corporations increasingly require a new layer of knowledge worker; a highly skilled multi-disciplined talent, who combines the mind of the white-collar worker with a solid grounding in mathematics and science (physics, chemistry, and biology). These "gold-collar" workers—so named for their contributions to their companies and to the economy as well as for their personal earning ability—apply their knowledge to technology.
The gold-collar worker already exists in a wide range of jobs. The maintenance technician who tests and repairs aircraft systems at American Airlines; the network administrator who manages systems and network operations at Procter & Gamble(宝洁公司) ; the engineering technologist who assists scientists at Sandia National Laboratories; and the advanced-manufacturing technician at Intel can all be regarded as gold-collar workers.
What does the word "projects" in the first paragraph mean?
A.Throws
B.Predicts
C.Concludes
D.Claims
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第1题
A、在Cooling Buffer 最上层放一整白玻璃,防止再发生
B、划伤和破片的风险ID自己私藏,没有发邮件CT和整合
C、PM时将Cooling Buffer 最上层的玻璃拿给Disp用
第2题
A、radiator
B、oil filter
C、engine oil
第3题
第6题
A、一级能效双变频 -25℃深冷储鲜
B、全空间四维净化 母婴臻储一键触达
C、分区精储 温湿双控
D、360° Around Cooling送风技术 蓝光SPA养鲜
第7题
第8题
() the fact that the area had been hit by the severest drought in twenty years, a fairly good harvest was gathered in.
A、In spite
B、Despite
C、In spite that
D、Despite of
第10题
A、While
B、For
C、Despite