①There 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).
②Max 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.
③How 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.
④How 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.
第8题
A、trade
B、job
C、area
D、walk
【正确答案】：A
【题目解析】：句子理解：公司老板将他们描述为“人类机器”，行业里最好最快的。 手工职业的行业用trade； job 工作； area 地区，领域； walk 走。