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Practice Listening: Multiple Choice, Single Answer ID: #36063 Short A labor shortage

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Listen to the recording and answer the multiple-choice question by selecting the correct response. Only one response is correct.

Transcript:

A labor shortage - that is what a lot of people have been calling this moment. Here in the US, when the pandemic hit. 22 million jobs just went poof, gone, raptured by a tanking economy. Since then, jobs have come back, but workers sort of haven't. In fact, a lot of people are quitting. Right now, there are a lot more job openings than there are people looking for work. And that usually does not happen. Economists are waiting for more data trying to understand this. Meanwhile, people are floating lots of vaguely sociological explanations. And so we decided, let's do our own informal survey. Let's find out what is going on in your world of work. So we asked you to tell us, are you hiring? Are you quitting? Are you looking for work? And you called us back from all over the place.

According to the passage, which of the following statements about the labor shortage is true?

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The phenomenon first appeared prior to the outbreak of the pandemic in the US. Economists have yet pinpointed the causes for the labor shortage because of insufficient data. The host asks the listeners for information about work in order to confirm his explanation. People are explaining the phenomenon from a economical perspective.

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Option 2: "Economists have yet pinpointed the causes for the labor shortage because of insufficient data."

Explanation: The text states that economists are waiting for more data to understand the labor shortage, which implies that they have not yet pinpointed the causes. This aligns directly with the main idea of the text regarding the uncertainty surrounding the labor shortage.

Option 1: "The phenomenon first appeared prior to the outbreak of the pandemic in the US."

Explanation: The text indicates that the labor shortage is a current issue that arose after the pandemic hit, specifically mentioning that 22 million jobs were lost due to the pandemic. Therefore, this option is incorrect as it suggests the phenomenon existed before the pandemic.

Option 3: "The host asks the listeners for information about work in order to confirm his explanation."

Explanation: The text mentions that the host asks listeners to share their experiences regarding hiring, quitting, or looking for work, but it does not indicate that this is to confirm his explanation. Instead, it suggests a desire to gather information about the current labor situation, making this option incorrect.

Option 4: "People are explaining the phenomenon from a economical perspective."

Explanation: The text refers to 'vaguely sociological explanations' being floated by people, not economic ones. This indicates that the explanations are more social in nature rather than strictly economic, thus making this option incorrect.

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