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一、主餐一道：泛听练习
On this Labor Day, David Wessel, deputy Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, talks to Steve Inskeep about wages of the American worker. Wessel says that according to new government figures, American productivity is up, but very often, wages are not.

泛听建议：
1、完整听一遍，掌握大意。
2、继续听，特别注意关键信息。
3、碰到听起来似曾相识的词汇，马上记录下来。

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The economy is growing, the unemployment is usually low by historical standards. But for the typical worker, ___1___. The new census bureau numbers to which we refer said that for workers, ___2___ work full-time year round. The ones at middle of the middle of the income distribution, their wages fell last year by 1.8% after adjusting for inflation. And they are actually lower in 2005 than they were back in 1998.

Where is the money going?
A lot of it is ___3___. It is going to workers but it’s not going to all workers. The best-off workers, the ones with the ___4___ or who have ___5___ with baseball teams or CEOs. Their wages are going up quite nicely. They’re getting a widening slice of the pie.

Why?
There is something wrong with the system in which the economy can be doing so well but the workers at the middle are not doing so well. Or a system in which the gab between the wages of the ___6___ is widening.
___7___ is a symbolic point of this broader issue. ___8___ have saved consumers more money that it might be costing the employees in terms of keeping salaries low and cutting health benefits.

The economy is succeeding if there are more ___9___.