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1、【 2018 年职称英语综合类阅读理解模拟题（2）】职称英语综合类Fords Assembly LineWhen it es to singling out those who have made a difference in all our lives,you cannot overlook Henry Ford.A historian acentury from now might well conclude that it was Ford who most influenced all manufacturing,everywhere,even to this day,by intr
2、oducing a new way to make cars-one,strange to say,that originated in slaughterhouses.Back in the early 1900s,slaughterhouses used what could have been called a disassembly line. Ford reversed this process to see if it would speed up production of a part of an automobile engine called a mago.Rather t
3、han have each worker pletely assemble a mago,one of its elements was placed on a conveyer,and each worker,as it passed,added another ponent to it,the same one each time.Professor David Hounshell of the University of Delaware,an expert on industrial development,tells what happened ：The previous day,w
4、orkers carrying out the entire processhad averaged one assembly every 20 minutes.But on that day,onthe line,the assembly team averaged one every 13 minutes and10 seconds per person.Within a year,the time had been reduced to five minutes.In1913,Ford went all theway.Hooked together byropes,partiallyas
5、sembled vehicleswere towed past workers who pletedthem onepiece at a time.It wasnt long before Ford was turning outseveralhundred thousand cars ayear,aremarkableachievementthen.And so efficient and economical was this new system thathe cut the priceof his cars in half,to$260,puttingthem withinreach
6、of all those who,up until that time,could not afford them.Soon,auto makers the world over copied him.In fact,he encouraged them to do so by writing a book about all of his innovations,entitled Today and Tomorrow.The Age of the Automobile has arrived.Today,aided by robots and other formsof automation
7、,everythingfrom toastersto perfumes are madeonassembly lines.1.Which of the following statements is NOT true?A ） Henry Ford influenced our lives.B ） Henry Ford influenced all manufacturing.C ） Henry Ford influenced the manufacture of cars.D ） Henry Ford influenced historians.2.The writer mentioned s
8、laughterhouses because these were the places in whichA ） Fords assembly line originated.B ） he made cars.C ） he innovated the assembly line.D ） he innovated the disassembly line.3.A mago is a technical term forA ） an automobile.B ） an engine.C ） a part of an automobile engine.D ） an automobile engin
9、e.4.The phrase turning out in the last paragraph can best be replaced byA ） producing.B ） appeasing.C ） assembling.D ） fixing.5.It didnt take long for Henry FordA ） to turn out a few hundred cars a year.B ） to turn out a few thousand cars a year.C ） to reduce the price of his cars to $260.D ） to cut the production of his cars by 50%.答案： DACAC内容仅供参考