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| On Thursday afternoon Mrs Clarke locked the door and went to the women's club as usual.It was a pleasant way of __1__ time for an old woman who lived alone. When she came home she __2__ something unusual.Had someone got in?The back door and the windows were all locked and there was no __3__ of forced entry.Had anything been taken?She went from room to room, __4__, and found her camera and spare watch missing. The following Thursday she went out at her __5__ time, but didn't go to the club.Instead, she took a short walk in a park nearby and came home, letting herself in through the __6__ door.She settled down to wait and see what would happen. It was 4 o'clock when the front doorbell rang.Mrs Clarke was __7__ tea at the time.The bell rang again, and the next moment she __8__ her letterbox being pushed open.Picking up the kettle of boiling water, she moved quietly towards the letterbox.A piece of __9__ appeared through the letterbox, and then a hand.The wire turned and caught around the knob(原形旋钮)on the doorlock.Mrs Clarke __10__ the kettle and poured the water over the hand.A __11__ cry was heard outside as the wire __12__ to the floor and the hand was pulled back, which was followed by the sound of __13__ feet. It wasn't long before the police caught the thief.And Mrs Clarke was greatly __14__ at the club for her successful __15__. | ||||
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| 词汇运用 1. I'm sorry I've spoken for too long, but I hope ________(我没有使你们厌烦). 2. Many people in the west like to ________(刺激) themselves with adventures. 3. You're ________(完全正确). 4. There exists a ________(潜在危险的)situation in that area. 5. You'll have to behave better if you really want to ________(给人留下好的印象). 6. It was a ________(缓解) to be able to talk to someone about my grievance(委屈). 7. He ________(非常忧虑) what job he can find after graduation. 8. "What should I do next?" asked the poor man ________(焦急地看着我). 9. It's ________(这个小男孩很有勇气) to make a speech in public. 10. There are ________(各种不同的图案) for you to choose from. |
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| Adam Smith, writing in the 1770s, was the first person to see the importance of the division of labour and to explain part of its advantages. He gives us an example the process by which pins were made in England. "One man draws out the wire, another strengthens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds(磨光滑) it at the top to prepare it to receive the head. To make the head requires two or three distinct operations. To put it on is a separate operation, to polish the pins is another. And the important business of making pins is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which in some factories are all performed by different people, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. " "Ten men, " Smith said, "in this way, turned out twelve pounds of pins a day or about 4,800 pins a piece. But if all of them had worked separately and independently without division of labour, they certainly could not turn out any pin, each of them would have made twenty pins in a day and perhaps not even one." There can be no doubt that division of labour is a way of organising work. Fewer people can make more pins. Adam Smith saw this but it's a pity he also took it for granted that division of labour is in itself responsible for economic growth and development and that it accounts for the difference between expanding economies and those that stand still. But division of labour adds nothing new；it only enables people to produce more of what they already have. 1. According to the passage, Adam Smith was the first person to ________. A. take advantage of the division of labour B. understand the effects of the division of labour C. explain the causes of the division of labour D. introduce the division of labour into England 2. Adam Smith saw that the division of labour ________. A. enabled each worker to make pins more quickly and more cheaply B. increased the number of people employed in factories C. increased the possible output per worker D. improved the quality of pins produced 3. Adam Smith mentioned the number 4,800 in order to ________. A. show the advantages of the division of labour B. emphasize how powerful the individual worker was C. show the advantages of the old craft system D. emphasize the importance of increased production 4. According to the writer, Adam Smith's mistake was in believing that division of labour ________. A. certainly led to economic development B. was a good way of organising work C. increased the production of existing goods D. was an important development in methods of production 5. Which of the following could serve as an appropriate title for the passage? A. The Theory of Division of Labour B. Adam Smith as the Discoverer of Division of Labour C. Adam Smith, the English Economist D. Division of Labour, a Good Way of Organizing Work |