阅读下面这篇短文,短文后有2项测试任务:(1)第23~26题要求从所给的6个选项中为第1~4段每段选择1个正确的小标题;(2)第27~30题要求从所给的6个选项中选择4个正确选项,分别完成每个句子。 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 the $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 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 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. Paragraph 1 ______.
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