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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 1 89 1, 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(高速运转).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(嗡嗡作响)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 t11e$5-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 an awful lot of training or education.The Wall Street Journal called the plan“an economic crime’.and critics everywhere laughed at F0rd.

　　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 Followers

　　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 Higher wages enabled many people 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 own a car

　　D Produce cars in large numbers

　　E the 8-hour-shift practice

　　F combined technology and market

　　【答案解析】

　　23正确答案为F。第一段的最后一句是这么说的：虽然T模型谈不上是第一种通用的汽车，但它向世界表明了Ford在把技术和市场结合在一起方面多么富有创造性。

　　24正确答案为B。第二段的第一句话是这么说的：公司的装配线独自把美国的工业革命投入到高速运转之中。这是个主题句，讲的是“装配线”。

　　25正确答案为E。第三段的第一句话是这么说的：同年Ford以提出一天最低5美元的工资制度而震惊世界，这是他至此作出的最大的贡献。这是个主题句。

　　26正确答案为C。第四段的第一句是这么说的：然而，随着工资后来升到一天10美元，Ford梦想中的关键部分，即大家都买得起汽车，是可以实现的。因此，C是正确的答案。

　　27正确答案为D。第二段的最后一个句子中提到“这个世界上的第一条汽车输送带每93分钟就生产一辆小汽车”。这个速度在当时是相当高的，可以想像，一年下来生产汽车的数量是相当大的： 。

　　28正确答案为E。第三段讲到。当是汽车工业实行的是9小时工作制，平均每小时2,34美元。Ford不仅把工资翻了翻，而且还把工作日中的工作时数去除了一小时。也就是说，Ford是第一个实行8小时工作的人。

　　29正确答案为C。C填入后整个句子说的是：由于Ford生产的车成本底，普通人也买得起。答案可见于最后一段的最后一句。

　　30正确答案为A。A填入后整个句子说的是：Ford的高工资、低成本策略受到了传媒的批评。答案可以在第三和第四段中找到。