【2017年整理】GMAT 阅读解析8-BY 申友Alice老师.docVIP

Passage8 Comparable worth（专有名词第一次出现，注意）, as a standard applied to eliminate inequities in pay（插入语，第一遍读时可略读）,insists （表观点）that the values of certain tasks performed in dissimilar jobs can be compared.// （第一层：CW的观点）In the last decade（时间状语，可略读）, this approach has become a critical social policy issue, as （连词，表因果关系）large numbers of private-sector firms and industries as well as federal, state, and local governmental entities have adopted comparable worth policies or begun to consider doing so.//（第二层：CW的重要性和被接纳广泛性）This widespread institutional awareness of comparable worth indicates increased public awareness that pay inequities--that is, situations in which pay is not fair because it does not reflect the true value of a job（插入语，可略读）--exist in the labor market. //（第一层：CW的广泛传播提高了对于工资不平等的公众意识）However（结构词，表转折）, the question still remains: have the gains already made in pay equity under comparable worth principles been of a precedent-setting nature or are they mostly transitory, a function of concessions made by employers to mislead female employees into believing that they have made long-term pay equity gains?//（第二层：转折引出问题仍然存在，CW制度下取得的进步是先例还是的）Comparable worth pay adjustments are indeed precedent-setting. Because of （表原因）the principles driving them, other mandates that can be applied to reduce or eliminate unjustified pay gaps between male and female workers have not remedied perceived pay inequities satisfactorily for the litigants in cases in which men and women hold different jobs. //（第一层：明确表明CW确实是先例其原因）But（结构词，表转折） whenever comparable worth principles are applied to pay schedules, perceived unjustified pay differences are eliminated.In this sense, then, comparable worth is more comprehensive （正评价词）than other mandates, such as （举例，第一遍读时可略读）the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Neither compares tasks in dissimilar jobs (that is, jobs across occupational categories)（可略读） in an effort to determine whether or not what is necessary to