根据下列文章,请回答 23~30 题。
Ford
1 Ford’s great strength was the manufacturing process——not invention. Long before he stoned a car company,he was a worker. known for picking up pieces of metal and wire and turning them into machines. He started putting cars together in 1891'.Although it was by no means the first popular automobile,the Model T showed the world just how creative Ford was at combining technology and market.
2 The company’s assembly line alone threw America’s Industrial Revolution into overdrive(高速运转)。Instead of having 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 Ford's Highland Park plant was humming(嗡嗡作响)along in 191 4,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 tile auto industry then was$2.34 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,f0.r doing something that didn't involve an awful lot of training or education. The Wall Street Journal called the plan” an economic crime",and critics everywhere laughed atF0rd.
4 But as the wage increased later to daily$10,it proved a critical component of Ford’s dream to make the automobile accessible(可及的)to all. The critics were too stupid to understand that because Ford had lowered his costs per car,the higher wages didn't matter——except for making it possible for more people to buy cars.
第 23 题 Paragraph l____________
根据下列文章,请回答 41~45 题。
Hacking
People tend to think of computers as isolated machines, working away all by themselves. Some do -- personal computer without an outside link, like someone's hideaway (隐蔽的) cabin in the woods. But just as most of homes are tied to a community by streets, bus rootes and electric lines, computers that exchange intelligence are part of a community -- local, national and even global network joined by telephone connections.
The computer network is a creation of the electric age, but it is based on old-fashioned trust. It cannot work without trust. A rogue loose (为所欲为的无赖) in a computer system called hacker (黑客) is worse than a thief entering your house. He could go through anyone's electronic mail or add to, change, distort or delete anything in the information stored in the computer's memory. He could even take control of the entire system by placing his own instructions in the software that runs it. He could shut the computer down whenever he wished, and no one could stop him. Then he could program the computer to erase any sign of his ever having been there.
Hacking, our electronic-age term for computer break-in, is more and more in the news- brainy kids vandalizing university records, even pranking (胡闹) about in supposedly safeguarded systems. To those who understand how computer networks are increasingly regulating life in the late 20th century, these are not laughing matters. A potential for disaster is building: A dissatisfied former insurance-company employee wipes out information from payroll (工资表) files. A student sends out a "virus", a secret and destructive command, over a national network. The virus copies itself at lightning speed, jamming the entire network -- thousands of academic, commercial and government computer systems. Such disastrous cases have already occurred. Now exists the possibility of terrorism by computer. Spoiling a system responsible for air-traffic control at a busy airport, or knocking out the telephones of a major city, is a relatively easy way to spread panic. Yet neither business nor government has done enough to toughen its defenses against attack. For one thing, such defenses are expensive; for another, they may interrupt communication -- the main reason for using computers in the first place.
第 41 题 The writer mentions "a thief" in the second paragraph
A. to show that a hacker is more dangerous than a thief.
B. to tell people that thieves like to steal computers nowadays.
C. to demand that a protective computer system should be set up against thieves.
D. to demonstrate that hackers and thieves are the same people.