A．make active againB．study againC．go over againD．find t……
TEXT C
Opinion polls arc now
beginning to show a reluctant consensus that, whoever is to ’blame and whatever
happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to stay. This means we
shall have to find ways of sharing the available employment more
widely.
But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental
questions about the future of work. Should we continue to treat employment as
the norm Should we not rather encourage many other ways for self-respecting
people to work Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for
ourselves, rather than for an employer Should we not aim to revive the
household arm the neighbourhood, as well as the factory and the office, as
centres of production and work
The industrial age has been the
only period of human history in which most people’s work has taken the form of
jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in
work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed. This seems a daunting
thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future of work.
Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic
freedom.
Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the
17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving
them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for
themselves, then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed
work from people’s homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then
by road, people commuted longer distances to their places of employment until,
eventually, many people’s work lost all connection with their home lives and the
places in which they lived.
Meanwhile, employment put women at a
disadvantage. In preindustrial times, men and women had shared the productive
work of the household and village community. Now it became customary for the
husband to go out to pay employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and
family to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations still assume this norm today,
and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between the sexes.
It was not only women whose work status suffered. As employment became the
dominant form of work, young people and old people were excluded -- a problem
now, as more teenagers become frustrated at school and more retired people want
to live active lives.
All this may now have to change. The time
has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away from the utopian
goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many
people to manage without full times jobs.
The word "revive" in the passage 2 meant that ______.
A．make active again
B．study again
C．go over again
D．find the value again
