2009年职称英语等级考试理工C级模拟试题(一)

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　　第三部分：概括大意与完成句子 (每题1分，共8分)
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　　Ford来源：www.hxen.net
　　Ford’s great strength was the manufacturing process- not invention. Long before he started a car company, he was an inveterate tinker, known for picking up loose scraps of metal and wire and turning them into machines. He’s been putting cars together since 1891. Although by no means the first popular automobile, the Model T showed the world just how innovative Ford was at combining technology and market.
　　The Company’s assembly line alone threw America’s Industrial Revolution into overdrive. Instead of having workers put together the entire car, Ford’s cronies, who were great tool- and diemakers from Scotland, organized teams that added parts to each Model T as it moved down a line. By the time Ford’s sprawling Highland Park plant was humning along in 1914, the world’s first automatic conveyor belt could turn out a car every 93 minutes.
　　The same year Henry Ford shocked the world with what probably stands as his greatest contribution ever, the $5-a-day minimum wage scheme. The average wage in the auto industry them 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 guy could be paid that much for doing something that didn’t involve an awful lot of training or education. The Wall Street journal called the plan “an economic crime,” and critics everywhere heaped “Fordism” with euqal scorn.
　　But as the wage increased later to daily $10, it proved a critical component of Ford’s quest to make the automobile accessible to all. The critics were too stupid to comprehend that because Ford had lowered his costs per car, the higher wages didn’t matter- except for making it feasible for more people to buy cars.
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　　A “Fordism” Accepted by the Car Industry
　　B Assembly Line Used to speed up Production
　　C Ford’s Cronies Rejected
　　D Ford’s Biggest Contributions
　　E Ford’s Quest for Making His Cars Accessible to All
　　F Ford’s Manufacturing Talent
　　标准答案： F,B,D,E