单项选择题

There is a workman in America who earns as much as a company director. He is Max Quarterman, a thirty-year-old plasterer（泥瓦匠）． Max lives in an upper middle-class housing estate. His（1）are mostly bank managers, business executives, airline pilots and the like, but Max’s seven-bedroom house—（2）$ 80,000—is the largest in the area. （3）outside the house are Max’s $7000 sports car and his wife’s Morris Mini.（4）is a 150 color TV set and the family’s pride— a circular bath with gold-plated taps. There are also many labor—saving（5）and luxury（豪华） furniture. How can a plasterer（6）all this The answer, says Max, is hard work. In partnership with another plasterer, Max does contract plastering jobs for a firm. The owner of the firm（7）them as human machines, the best and quickest in the（8）, who can do as much in two days as any two-man team can in two weeks. How do they（9）it Not by working overtime. They work a normal eight-hour day, five days a week. The secret（10）in Max’s hod（桶） in which he carries the plaster(石膏) to the site of the job. Max’s is a superhod—it contains double the usual weight of plaster, and Max, a strong fellow, runs when he carries it. More time is thus（11）to get on with the plastering. Besides, （12）man wastes time smoking, and they（13）their lunch break to a（14）of an hour a day. Now Max earns over $800 a week which is four times the average weekly pay in America today, and if he gets as（15）as $150, it’s a disaster.

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