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41. Jay Deuwell 

41题对应第五段:

For factory owners, it all adds up to stiff competition for workers—and upward pressure on wages. “They’re harder to find and they have job offers,” says Jay Dunwell, president of Wolverine Coil Spring, a family-owned firm, “They may be coming [into the workforce], but they’ve been plucked by other industries that are also doing an well as manufacturing,” Mr. Dunwell has begun bringing high school juniors to the factory so they can get exposed to its culture.

42. Jason Stenquist

42题对应第七段:

At a worktable inside the transformer plant, young Jason Stenquist looks flustered by the copper coils he’s trying to assemble and the arrival of two visitors. It’s his first week on the job. Asked about his choice of career, he says at high school he considered medical school before switching to electrical engineering. “I love working with tools. I love creating,” he says.

43. Birgit Klohs 

43题对应第八段:

But to win over these young workers, manufacturers have to clear another major hurdle: parents, who lived through the worst US economic downturn since the Great Depression, telling them to avoid the factory. Millennials “remember their father and mother both were laid off. They blame it on the manufacturing recession,” says Birgit Klohs, chief executive of The Right Place, a business development agency for western Michigan.

44. Rob Spohr 

44题对应第十段:

 “The gap is between the jobs that take to skills and those that require a lot of skill,” says Rob Spohr, a business professor at Montcalm Community College. “There’re enough people to fill the jobs at McDonalds and other places where you don’t need to have much skill. It’s that gap in between, and that’s where the problem is. ”
45. Julie Parks 

45题对应第十一段:

Julie Parks of Grand Rapids Community points to another key to luring Millennials into manufacturing: a work/life balance. While their parents were content to work long hours, young people value flexibility. “Overtime is not attractive to this generation. They really want to live their lives,” she says.

A. says that he switched to electrical engineering because he loves working with tools.

B. points out that there are enough people to fill the jobs that don’t need much skill.

C. points out that the US doesn't manufacture anything anymore.

D. believes that it is important to keep a close eye on the age of his workers.

E. says that for factory owners, workers are harder to find because of stiff competition.

F. points out that a work/life balance can attract young people into manufacturing.

G. says that the manufacturing recession is to blame for the lay-off the young people's parents.

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