单项选择题
The garment industry is labor-intensive; the production of garments requires the employment of a relatively large number of people. The auto industry is capital-intensive; a large amount of money is invested in elaborate equipment run by a relatively small number of people. If fringe benefits are not considered, a typical United States garment worker in 1979 earned 46 percent of a typical auto worker’s wages.
Which of the following, if true, is likely to be among the factors that account for the disparity between auto workers’ and garment workers’ wages ？（）
A．There is generally less variation among the wages of garment industry workers than among those of auto industry workers.
B．Wage increases in the auto industry have a smaller effect on manufacturers’ total costs than do wage increases in the garment industry.
C．The fringe benefits that auto makers provide for their employees are more comprehensive than are those provided for garment workers.
D．The auto industry faces more competition from companies outside the United States paying low wages than does the garment industry.
E．The auto industry employs a larger total number of workers than does the garment industry.
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Currently, the number of first-time admissions of individuals diagnosed as manic-depressives to hospitals in Great Britain exceeds by nine times the number of admissions of such patients to public and private hospitals in the United States, even though the population size of the United States is many times that of Great Britain. Which of the following, if true, would be most useful to an attempt to explain the situation described above ？（）
A．The term manic-depressive refers to a wider range of mentally ill patients in Great Britain than it does in the United States.
B．The admission rate in the United States includes those individuals who visit clinics for the first time as well as those who are admitted directly to hospitals.
C．A small percentage of patients diagnosed as manic-depressive in Great Britain are admitted to private nursing homes rather than hospitals.
D．The variety of training institutions in psychology in the United States is greater than in Great Britain, reflecting the variety of schools of psychology that have developed in the United States.
E．Seeking professional assistance for mental health problems no longer carries a social stigma in the United States, as it once did. -
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Regional and local telephone companies around the nation are beginning to offer customers an electronic operator system that allows customers to choose to make some operator-assisted calls through an electronic operator. Nevertheless, the number of human operators on staff will not be reduced in the foreseeable future. Each of the following statements, if true, helps explain why the number of human operators is not being reduced EXCEPT （）.
A．Demand for operator-assisted calls is increasing dramatically.
B．The new electronic operator system, though it has been tested, is expected to require significant adjustments before it can become fully operational.
C．The operators union would be quick to strike the companies involved if operators were dismissed during the current contract period.
D．In one regional trial of the electronic system, virtually all consumers, given a choice, preferred a human operator to an electronic one.
E．The new electronic operator system will complete operator-assisted calls twice as fast as human operator can. -
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A new ordinance passed by the Gorenton Council a year ago banned the sale of all nonrecyclable plastic packaging for food being sold in Gorenton. A substantial percentage of Gorenton’s plastic waste, however, is still composed of nonrecyclable plastic food packaging. Which of the following, if true, best contributes to reconciling the apparent discrepancy above ？（）
A．Fewer food products are packaged in nonrecyclable plasticstoday than were so packaged a year ago.
B．The new ordinance affects only plastic food packaging and not other products packaged in plastic, many of which are sold in Gorenton.
C．Grocery and other stores in nearby suburban areas patronized by many Gorenton residents are unaffected by the new ordinance.
D．Many food products formerly packaged in nonrecyclable plastics are now specially packaged in recyclable plastic before being shipped so that they can be sold in Gorenton.
E．The total amount of both Gorenton’s trash and its plastic waste grew considerably over the past year.
