时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语专业四级考试指南


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  Why Some People Are Poor

The poverty line is the minimum income that people need for an acceptable standard of living.People with incomes below the poverty line are consisdered poor.

As the general standard of living rises,the poverty line does,too.Therefore,even with today’s relatively 1 high standard of living,about 10 percent of the people in the United States are below the poverty line.Economists 2 suggest several reasons.

For one thing, more than half of the poor people are not qualified 3 to work.By law, children less than 16years old can notwork in many industries;many companies do not hire people over 65 years old,which is considered the normal retirment age.

Some poor adaults do not look for jobs for a variety of personal reasons.Other poor people look for a job but can’t find one.Many poor adults never went to high school.Therefor,when they look for a jobs,they have few skills that they can offer



1 relatively
adv.比较...地,相对地
  • The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
  • The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。
2 economists
n.经济学家,经济专家( economist的名词复数 )
  • The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
  • Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 qualified
adj.合格的,有资格的,胜任的,有限制的
  • He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
  • We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。
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-uretic
a bad workman always blames his tools
a barrel of fun
activation-pulse generator
administrative jurisdiction
aerodynamically balanced control surface
al-nahayan
Almunge
Alwen Reservoir
amyl acetate-iso
barrier-bar trap
basimaxilla
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betuloside
blew your own trumpet
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chondrocyte
colet
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contracting chill
coupon payment
crossprime
Darwin ellipsoid
Deniges butter
disc crusher
do number one
elastic lateral bukling
elastomeric network
enclosed door bell
engineering geological map
entrapments
ethical norm
family Pinaceae
famous last words
freight consignment
friction plane
Frohn's tests
gaged arch
glass blowing out
ground clearance measurement
Gyrocheilos retrotrichus
heroica
hexabranchids
hexamethyl-disilazane
hvps (high-voltage power supply)
in eruption
katholikos
keratoid cusp
lagoon deposit
low speed air explosive bomb
main coolant system
management and operation
management bank
marine eel
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medial saddle
melanemesis
Milne
Opium-habit
orthopantograph
overleap
pain waxing
pass in one's dinner pail
pastuta
permanent-magnet machine
physiology of circulation
pretopology
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program development time
protofluorine
Qostanay Oblysy
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Quercus robur
radar signal simulator
researchists
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satellite landing control system
seed polisher
slip crack
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spoon back chair
stage coach
stone splash-dam
subject to correction
torque identity
trailing transient
two-digit group
unridden
vertex of conic
vertical bar oscillator
Vila Pouca de Aguiar
virtual cylindrical gear pair
volume coefficient
Washington Park
wattless component of the current
Wellesley, Arthur
work as
wropper
yarke, yarkee
young mammals
Zorneding