Part IV Error detection and correction (15 minutes)
I’m a great admirer of the Japanese because they know
where they’re come from , they know where they’re at,
And they know where they’re going. And most important,
They have a national strategy to get them there .
They also know to make good cars. During the 1970s. Their --71--
cars were actually better than ours. That’s not true
any longer , but many Americans .
How did Japanese cars get so good? It starts with the
workers. To begin, labor1 costs over there are --72--
much higher than ours. Japanese workers earn about --73--
60 percents of what American counterparts take --74--
home. They don’t have automatic cost-of-living increases tie --75--
to the Consumer Price Index, as American workers do. And they don’t
have the same array of company –paid medical benefits that --76--
took the consumer several hundred dollars a car.
Japan’s workers are also more productive than ours. I
don’t mean that they’re better , merely that they operate
by a different set of rules.
There are really only two job classifications in Japan: --77--
skilled and unskilled. Depending on that needs to be done on --78--
a given day, a worker may perform a variety of jobs. If the --79--
floor is clean, he’ll pick up a broom and sweep it without --80--
worrying about that’s part of his job definition. Naturally
this sense of responsibility leads to .
答案:
71. (know)how
72. (begin)begin with
73. (higher)lower
74. (percents)percent
75. (tie) tied
76. (took)cost
77. (that)what
78. (clean)dirty
79. (about) whether