2004年职称英语考试理工类B级试题及答案(9)

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 F0rd’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$2.3

4 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“all economic crime”．and critics everywhere 1aughed at Ford．