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Walt Disney could have built his biggest theme park anywhere. He chose Florida. The weather is balmy, and when it gets too hot t

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问题     Walt Disney could have built his biggest theme park anywhere. He chose Florida. The weather is balmy, and when it gets too hot there are lots of pools to cool off in, says. Meg Crofton, Walt Disney World’s CEO’. Florida also offers plenty of space to expand. Disney World, which was first carved out of wild woodland in 1971, has swollen to four parks covering 40 square miles (104 sq km) and employing 60,000 "cast members". Contrary to the stereotype of rapid flow in the service sector, the average full-time employee sticks around for nine years.
    Florida’s business climate is sunny, too. The Milken Institute, a think-tank in California, compiles an index of "best-performing cities" in America, a composite measure of such things as job creation, wage growth and whether businesses are thriving. In the most recent index, six of the top ten metropolitan areas are in Florida. (Orlando-Kissimmee is sixth.) And 18 of the top 30 are in the South.
    For a long time the South’s weather got in the way of its development. Richard Pillsbury, a geography professor at Georgia State University, describes traditional life in the lowland South, a region stretching from northern Virginia down to the Gulf coast of Texas: "Smallish barren farms almost lost in the white heat of a hot and humid summer sun as the owners and their help fought swarms of mosquitoes to plant, cultivate and harvest the meagre cotton crop for market". Then air-conditioning came. As it spread after the World War Ⅱ, the South became suddenly more comfortable to live and work in. From the 1940s until the 1980s the region boomed. In his book Old South, New South, Gavin Wright lists four reasons why Federal defence spending stimulated growth. Sunshine attracted skilled professionals. The South, having developed so little in the past, was a "clean slate", without strong labour unions, entrenched bureaucracies, restrictive laws or outdated machinery. Lastly, given how much catching up the South had to do, the potential returns were higher than in the north.
    Southerners have prospered in part by playing to their traditional strengths. The fame of southern hospitality has bolstered the region’s hotel chains, such as Holiday Inn. That of southern cuisine helps local restaurants, such as Waffle House, Cracker Barrel and KFC. Arkansas-based Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, has kept costs low by refusing to recognize unions. And Coca-Cola owes at least some of its success to its southern origins.
选项 A、most of the staff are full-time.
B、most of the staff are part-time.
C、workers are reluctant to be employed in a company for long.
D、most companies run smoothly less than nine years.
答案C
解析 文章第一段结尾句Contrary to the stereotype of rapid flow in the service sector，the average full-time employee sticks around for nine years．此题的答题思路与2003年考研真题第4篇阅读文章的第4题极为相似。这种类型的题目是以对比为出题点，找出题干中所提及事物的特点。深度分析后，考生会体会到，这类题目很简单，考大家的是原文关键词的近义表达或反义表达。C选项中的are reluctant to be employed in a company for long恰恰是原文中rapid flow的近义表达。因此，C正确。B的干扰性较大，很多同学认为只有迪斯尼雇用全职员工，其他公司，尤其是服务业，只雇用兼职人员。这可能是很多同学看到在中国，麦当劳和肯德基这些象征着美国服务业的公司招聘的多是小时工，因此主观臆断，误选。谨记：答题过程中不要掺杂任何个人主观情感和印象，严格做到"忠实原文"。D选项中谈到公司经营问题，在有些经营很好的公司中，人员流动性依然很严重；相反，在那些经营不善的公司中，员工未必不忠实于企业。两者之间并不是充分必要的条件关系。其他公司的全职员工数量在本文中没有提及，A属于无关选项。
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