09年職稱英語綜合類概括大意考前練習(xí)(2)

　　Ford

　　1 Ford's great strength was the manufacturing process――not invention.Long before he started a car company, he was a worker, known for picking up pieces of metal and wire and turning them into machines.He started putting cars together in 1 891 Although it was by no means the first popular automobile，the Model T showed the world just how creative Ford was at combining technology and market.

　　2 The company's assembly line alone threw America's Industrial Revolution into overdrive (高速運轉(zhuǎn)).Instead of having workers put together the entire car, Ford's friends, who were great toolmakers from Scotland，organized teams that added parts to each Model T as it moved down a line.By the time Ford's Highland Park plant was humming(嗡嗡作響)along in 1914，the world's first automatic conveyor belt could turn out a car every 93 minutes.

　　3 The same year Henry Ford shocked the world with the $5一a-day minimum wage scheme, the greatest contribution he had ever made.The average wage in the auto industry then was $2.34 for a 9-hour shift.Ford not only doubled that，he also took an hour off the workday.In those years it was unthinkable that a man could be paid that much for doing something that didn't involve all awful lot of training or education.The Wall Street Journal called the plan"an economic crime"，and critics everywhere laughed at Ford.

　　4 But as the wage increased later to daily $10, it proved a critical component of Ford's dream to make the automobile accessible(可及的)to a11.The critics were too stupid to understand that because Ford had lowered his costs per car, the higher wages didn't matter――except for making it possible for more people to buy Cars.

　　23 Paragraph 1_________.

　　24 Paragraph 2_________.

　　25 Paragraph 3_________.

　　26 Paragraph 4_________.

　　A Ford's Opponents

　　B The Assembly Line

　　C Ford's Great Dream

　　D The Establishment of the Company

　　E Ford's Biggest Contribution

　　F Ford's Great Talent

　　27 The assembly line made it possible to_________.

　　28 Ford was the first to adopt_________.

　　29 Ford's cars became available to ordinary people thanks to_________.

　　30 Ford's higher-wage and lower-cost strategy was strongly_________.

　　A criticized by the media

　　B the low wage in the auto industry

　　C their lower prices

　　D produce cars in large numbers

　　E the 8.hour shift

　　F combined technology and market　　答案:

　　23.F

　　第一段的最后一句是這么說的：雖然T模型談不上是第一種通用的汽車，但它向世界表明了Ford在把技術(shù)和市場結(jié)合在一起方面多么富有創(chuàng)造性?！　?4.B

　　第二段的第一句話是這么說的：公司的裝配線獨自把美國的工業(yè)革命投入到高速運轉(zhuǎn)之中。這是個主題句，講的是“裝配線”。

　　25.E　　第三段的第一句話是這么說的：同年Ford以提出一天最低5美元的工資制度而震驚世界，這是他至此做出的最大的貢獻。這是個主題句。

　　26.C

　　第四段的第一句是這么說的：然而i隨著工資后來升到一天10美元，F(xiàn)ord夢想中-的關(guān)鍵部分，即汽車大家都買得起，是可以實現(xiàn)的。因此，C是正確的答案。

　　27.D

　　第二段的最后一個句子中提到“這個世界上的第一條汽車輸送帶每93分鐘就生產(chǎn)一輛小汽車”。這個速度在當(dāng)時是相當(dāng)高的，可以想像，一年下來生產(chǎn)汽車的數(shù)量是相當(dāng)大的。

　　28.E

　　第三段講到。當(dāng)是汽車工業(yè)實行的9小時工作制，

　　平均每小時2.34美元。Ford不僅把工資翻了翻，而且還把工作日中的工作時數(shù)去除了一小時。也就是說，F(xiàn)ord是第一個實行8小時工作的人。

　　29.C

　　C填入后整個句子說的是：由于Ford生產(chǎn)的車成本底，普通人也買得起。答案可見于最后一段的最后一句。

　　30.A

　　A填入后整個句子說的是：Ford的高工資、低成本策略受到了傳媒的批評。答案可以在第三和第四段中找到。