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Which of the following is the best example of writing that is likely to be subject to the

A history of an auto manufacturing plant written by an employee during an auto-buying boom.
B. A critique of a statewide school-desegregation plan written by an elementary school teacher in that state.
C. A newspaper article assessing the historical importance of a United States President written shortly after the President has taken office.
D. A scientific paper describing the benefits of a certain surgical technique written by the surgeon who developed the technique.
E. Diary entries narrating the events of a battle written by a soldier who participated in the battle.

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The author suggests that if the observers of Japan mentioned in line 4 were correct, which

A. The equipment used in Japanese automobile plants would be different from the equipment used in United States plants.
B. Japanese workers would be trained to do several different production jobs.
Culture would not have an influence on the productivity levels of workers.
D. The workers in Japanese-run plants would have higher productivity levels regardless of where they were located.
E. The production levels of Japanese-run plants located in the United States would be equal to those of plants run by United States companies.

按照《住宅建筑设计原理》,住宅户内功能分区,下列哪两项概念重复:Ⅰ。 公私分区;Ⅱ。 静动分区;Ⅲ。洁污分区;Ⅳ。昼夜分区。选项:

A. Ⅰ、Ⅲ
B. Ⅰ、Ⅳ
C. Ⅱ、Ⅲ
D. Ⅱ、Ⅳ

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about the European Community prior

A. There were restrictions on commerce between the member nations.
B. The economic policies of the member nations focused on global trading issues.
C. There were few impediments to trade between the member nations and the United States.
D. The flow of goods between the member nations and Canada was insignificant.
E. Relations between multinational corporations and the governments of the member nations were strained.

Japanese firms have achieved the highest levels of manufacturing efficiency in the world automobile industry. Some observers of Japan have assumed that Japanese firms use the same manufacturing equipment and techniques as United States firms but have benefited from the unique characteristics of Japanese employees and the Japanese culture. However, if this were true, then one would expect Japanese auto plants in the United States to perform. no better than factories run by United States companies. This is not the case, Japanese-run automobile plants located in the United States and staffed by local workers have demonstrated higher levels of productivity when compared with factories owned by United States companies. Other observers link high Japanese productivity to higher levels of capital investment per worker. But a historical perspective leads to a different conclu- sion. When the two top Japanese automobile makers matched and then doubled United States productivity levels in the mid-sixties, capital investment per employee was comparable to that of United States firms. Furthermore, by the late seventies, the amount of fixed assets required to produce one vehicle was roughly equivalent in Japan and in the United States. Since capital invest - ment was not higher in Japan, it had to be other factors that led to higher productivity. A more fruitful explanation may lie with Japanese production techniques. Japanese automobile producers did not simply implement conventional processes more effectively: they made critical changes in United States procedures. For instance, the mass-product ion phi- losophy of United States automakers encouraged the production of huge lots of cars in order to utilize fully expensive, component-specific equipment and to occupy fully workers who have been trained to execute one operation efficiently. Japanese automakers chose to make small-lot production feasible by introducing several departures from United States practices, including the use of flexible equipment that could be altered easily to do several different production tasks and the training of workers in multiple jobs. Automakers could schedule the production of different compo- nents or models on single machines, thereby eliminating the need to store the buffer stocks of extra components that result when specialized equipment and workers are kept constantly active.
The primary purpose of the passage is to

A. present the major steps of a process.
B. clarify an ambiguity.
C. chronicle a dispute.
D. correct misconceptions.
E. defend an accepted approach.

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