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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 1891. 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）。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 dollars-a-day minimum wage scheme，the greatest contribution he had ever made. The average wage in the auto industry then was 2.34 dollars 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 an 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 dollars，it proved a critical component of Ford's dream to make the automobile accessible（可及的）to all. 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.

1. Paragraph 1 ________.

2. Paragraph 2 ________.

3. Paragraph 3 ________.

4. 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

[正確答案]

1. F 中心句一般在段首或段末出現(xiàn)，第一段的中心句在Ford's great strength was the manufacturing process——not invention.福特最偉大的力量在于生產過程而不是發(fā)明。所以這段話講的是福特的才能。這里應該排除干擾項E.

2. B 中心句在段首The company's assembly line alone threw America's Industrial Revolution into overdrive，福特公司的裝配線使美國工業(yè)革命飛速運轉。所以這里主要是講福特公司的裝配線利用，因此B為正確答案。

3. E 中心句在段首The same year Henry Ford shocked the world with the 5 dollars-a-day minimum wage scheme， the greatest contribution he had ever made.后面的賓語從句就是修飾5 dollars-a-day minimum wage scheme，所以選擇E，這也排除了1題的干擾項。

4. C 這段話只有兩句話，But as the wage increased later to daily 10 dollars， it proved a critical component of Ford's dream to make the automobile accessible to all.日均工資漲到10美元，對福特讓汽車普及的夢想起了關鍵因素。所以這里就是講福特的夢想。

5. The assembly line made it possible to ________.

6. Ford was the first to adopt ________.

7. Ford's cars became available to ordinary people thanks to ________.

8. 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

[正確答案]

5. D 第二段話assembly line大大提高了工作效率，使得大規(guī)模生產汽車成為可能。

6. E 第三段The average wage in the auto industry then was 2.34 dollars for a 9-hour shift. Ford not only doubled that， he also took an hour off the workday.所以福特首先采取了8小時工作制。

7. C 第四段最后一句話道明了是工資上漲使得很多人有能力買車了，而不是生產汽車的成本降低了。

8. A 第三段最后一句福特的高工資、低成本策略的描述在第三段這段主要說明了福特創(chuàng)舉引來的爭議，The Wall Street Journal called the plan “an economic crime”， and critics everywhere laughed at Ford.這里的The Wall Street Journal華爾街日報屬于媒體，所以選擇A比較合適。