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The productivity of Americans employed in private businesses has declined.
The productivity of workers in countries such as Japan and Germany is
increasing. American machine tools, on average, are old, relatively inefficient,
and rapidly becoming obsolete, whereas those of our competitors overseas, in
comparison, are newer and more efficient. We are no longer the most productive
workers in the world. We are no longer the leaders in industrial innovation
(革新). We are an immensely
wealthy nation of educated men and women who seem to have lost sight of the
fact that everything—from the simplest necessities to the finest luxuries—must
be produced through our own collective hard work. We have come to expect
automatic increases in our collective standard of living, but we seem to have
forgotten that these increases are possible only when our productivity continues
to grow.
One thing that must change is the rate at which we substitute capital
equipment for human labor. Simply put, our labor force has increased at a far
greater rate than has our stock of capital investment. We seem to have forgotten
that our past productivity gains, to a large extent, were realized from
substitutions of capital for human labor. Today, 3 times as many robots are
listed as capital assets by Japanese firms as by United States firms.
There is no doubt that robots will become a common sight in American
factories. Representing a new generation of technology, robots will replace
factory labor much as the farm tractor replaced the horse. Robot technology has
much to offer. It offers higher levels of productivity and quality at lower
costs; in promises to free men and women from the dull, repetitious toil of the
factory, it is likely to have an impact on society comparable to that made by
the growth of computer technology.
21. The word "obsolete"(Para. 1) most probably means_______.
A. weak B. old
C. new D. out of date
22. The author is anxious about_______.
A. his people no longer taking the lead in industrial innovation
B. his country no longer being a wealthy nation
C. his people forgetting to raise their productivity
D. his country falling behind other industrial nations
23. According to the author, in his country_______.
A. the proportion of labor force to capital investment is quite low
B. the growth rate of labor force should be greater than that of capital
investment
C. the productivity increases should be achieved by the increases of labor
force
D. capital investment should have increased more rapidly than labor
force
24. So far as the influence on society is concerned, _______.
A. robot technology seems to be much more promising than computer
technology
B. computer technology has less to offer than robot technology
C. robot technology can be compared with computer technology
D. robot technology cannot be compared with computer technology
25. The purpose of the author in writing this passage is to show
that_______.
A. robots will help increase labor productivity
B. robots will rule American factories
C. robots are cheaper than human laborers
D. robots will finally replace humans in factories
21. D 22. C 23. D 24. C 25. A
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发表于 2017-6-12 21:38:14