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It’s a seemingly intractable dilemma, suddenly as salient in Berlin or Tokyo as it is in Washington; How do you save people’s ec

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问题     It’s a seemingly intractable dilemma, suddenly as salient in Berlin or Tokyo as it is in Washington; How do you save people’s economic livelihoods while telling those same people to stay home?
    A global recession, many forecasters say, is here and is growing more severe by the day, as millions of consumers and workers in Europe, Asia, and North America have been sidelined as governments take strict measures to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. Actions by governments and centra] banks ramped up, not so much in an effort to prevent a recession as simply to weather a storm that could easily become more severe than the global financial crisis a decade ago.
    Help can’t come soon enough for Dominik Wilkinson and his co-workers at a restaurant in the northern German town of Bielefeld. The restaurant’s 40 staff members were already working sharply reduced hours before Germany declared restaurants takeout-only for at least two weeks. "A prolonged closure would be death, in terms of revenue. It’s basically the same for every small and medium-sized company, " says Mr.  Wilkinson, a shift manager.
    In the United States, a March 19 Labor Department report showed weekly claims for unemployment benefits spiking more than at any time during the 2008 financial crisis. Every day brings more turmoil in global stock and bond markets as investors seek safe havens, even as central banks offer up amounts not seen since the financial meltdown of 2008. Yet the situation’s severity is spurring governments into action. Relief measures range from mortgage or tax holidays to cash infusions for households, while also lending or simply giving money to businesses to prevent mass layoffs or permanent closures.         Analysts say these are the kinds of measures that can help, but effectiveness will hinge on their magnitude and speed of delivery. And what makes this crisis different, they add, is that a pandemic must also be tamed because the economic and health crises are intertwined.
    The Group of Seven international economic organization has already issued a " whatever it takes" statement of determination. The International Monetary Fund and World Bank are mobilizing help for developing nations. But so far it’s an open question whether global leadership today can match the kind of concerted effort that emerged from the depths of the 2008 crisis. " A lot of people didn’t quite measure the gravity of the situation for a while, including myself to be honest," says Ioana Marinescu, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. " We have to think about supporting business. That’s very important because if we allow businesses to fail, we are losing jobs...We’re also losing capital. "
It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that Dominik Wilkinson and his co-workers_________.
选项 A、worked longer hours than before
B、are providing takeout service
C、will be laid off after the closure
D、may have no income in the future
答案D
解析 推断题。根据题干提示定位到第三段。该段第二句指出“在德国宣布餐厅只能提供外卖服务的至少两个星期之前，该餐厅的40名工作人员已经在大幅减少工作时间”，故[A]选项错误。现在餐厅是否提供外卖服务无从得知，故[B]选项错误。该段第三句指出值班经理威尔金森先生说的话：“就收入而言，长期关闭将意味着倒闭，每一家中小型公司基本上都一样。”所以[D]选项正确，他们未来可能没收入。[C]选项说“他们将会被解雇”，属于过度推断。
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