Part B: Information Matching (2017)

The decline in American manufacturing is a common refrain... Without question, manufacturing has taken a significant hit during recent decades...

Across the country, factory owners are now grappling with a new challenge: Instead of having too many workers, they may end up with too few...

For factory owners, it all adds up to stiff competition for workers—and upward pressure on wages. “They’re harder to find and they have job offers,” says Jay Dunwell...

At RoMan Manufacturing... Robert Roth keeps a close eye on the age of his nearly 200 workers...

...young Jason Stenquist... says at high school he considered medical school before switching to electrical engineering. “I love working with tools. I love creating,” he says.

...parents... telling them to avoid the factory. Millennials “remember their father and mother both were laid off. They blame it on the manufacturing recession,” says Birgit Klohs...

“The gap is between the jobs that take no skills and those that require a lot of skill,” says Rob Spohr... “There’re enough people to fill the jobs at McDonalds and other places where you don’t need to have much skill.”

Julie Parks points to another key to luring Millennials into manufacturing: a work/life balance... young people value flexibility...

Questions & Options

41. Jay Dunwell

42. Jason Stenquist

43. Birgit Klohs

44. Rob Spohr

45. Julie Parks

[A]says that he switched to electrical engineering because he loves working with tools.

[B]points out that there are enough people to fill the jobs that don’t need much skill.

[C]points out that the US doesn’t manufacture anything anymore.

[D]believes that it is important to keep a close eye on the age of his workers.

[E]says that for factory owners, workers are harder to find because of stiff competition.

[F]points out that a work/life balance can attract young people into manufacturing.

[G]says that the manufacturing recession is to blame for the lay-off of the young people’s parents.

答案解析 (Answers & Explanations)

41. Jay Dunwell 对应 [E]
【解析】定位包含 Jay Dunwell 的段落。原文指出：“For factory owners, it all adds up to stiff competition for workers... ‘They’re harder to find...’ says Jay Dunwell”。这直接同义替换了选项 [E] 中的 “workers are harder to find because of stiff competition（因为激烈的竞争，工人更难找了）”。

42. Jason Stenquist 对应 [A]
【解析】定位包含 Jason Stenquist 的段落。他说他在高中时考虑过医学院，然后“switching to electrical engineering（转到了电气工程专业）”，并且说“I love working with tools.（我喜欢使用工具工作）”。这与选项 [A] 的描述字面完全一致。

43. Birgit Klohs 对应 [G]
【解析】定位包含 Birgit Klohs 的段落。她提到千禧一代记得父母都被“laid off（解雇了）”，并且“They blame it on the manufacturing recession（他们将其归咎于制造业的衰退）”。这对应了选项 [G] 中的 “manufacturing recession is to blame for the lay-off...（制造业衰退是年轻人父母被解雇的原因）”。

44. Rob Spohr 对应 [B]
【解析】定位包含 Rob Spohr 的段落。他明确指出：“There’re enough people to fill the jobs... where you don’t need to have much skill（有足够的人来填补那些不需要太多技能的工作）”。这句话直接同义替换为选项 [B]。

45. Julie Parks 对应 [F]
【解析】定位包含 Julie Parks 的段落。她指出吸引千禧一代进入制造业的另一个关键是：“a work/life balance（工作与生活的平衡）”。选项 [F] 中的 “a work/life balance can attract young people into manufacturing” 是对这句话的完美转述（luring 同义替换为 attract）。

【干扰项排除】
[C] 提到“美国不再制造任何东西”，文中未提及此观点。
[D] 提到“密切关注工人的年龄”，这是原文中 Robert Roth 的行为，但他并未出现在左侧的 41-45 题目列表中。