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How Ford Turn Out Cars When it comes to singling out those who have made a difference in all our lives, you cannot overlook

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问题                        How Ford Turn Out Cars
    When it comes to singling out those who have made a difference in all our lives, you cannot overlook Henry Ford. A historian a century from now might well conclude that it was Ford who most influenced all manufacturing, every where, even to this day, by introducing a new way to make cars—one, strange to say, that originated in slaughterhouses.
    Back in the early 1900’s, slaughterhouses used what could have been called a "disassembly line. "Ford reversed this process to see if it would speed up production of a part of an automobile engine called a magneto. Rather than have each worker completely assemble a magneto, one of its elements was placed on a conveyer, and each worker, as it passed, added another component to it, the same one each time. Professor David of the University of Delaware, an expert on industrial development, tells what happened:
    "The previous day, workers carrying out the entire process had averaged one assembly every 20 minutes. But on that day, on the line, the assembly team averaged one every 13 minutes and 10 seconds per person. "
    Within a year, the time had been reduced to five minutes. In 1913, Ford went all the way. Hooked together by ropes, partially assembled vehicles were towed past workers who completed them on piece at a time. It wasn’t long before Ford was turning out several hundred thousand cars a year, a remarkable achievement then. And so efficient and economical was this new system that he cup the price of his cars in half, to $ 260, putting them within reach of all those who, up until that time, could not afford them. Soon, auto makers the world over copied him. In fact, he encouraged them to do so by writing a book about all of his innovations, entitled Today and Tomorrow. The Age of the Automobile has arrived. Today, aided by robots and other forms of automation, everything from toasters to perfumes are made on assembly lines.
Which of the following statements is NOT true? ______
选项 A、Henry Ford influenced our lives.
B、Henry Ford influenced all manufacturing.
C、Henry Ford influenced the manufacture of cars.
D、Henry Ford influenced historians.
答案D
解析 该题问的是：下面的几种说法哪一种不对?选项A、B和C在文章中都可以找到。A说的是：亨利·福特给我们的生活带来了影响。这可以从第一个句子中找到。第一个句子 是这么说的：说到挑出那些改变了我们生活的人，我们是不能忽略亨利·福特的。选项B说的是：亨利·福特对所有的制造业都有影响。这可以从文章第一段的第二个句子中找到。该句说的是：百年后的历史学家可能会做这样的结论：福特对世界各地所有的制造业影响最大……选项C说的是：事利·福特影响了汽车制造。这是文章的主题。另外，答案B本身就蕴涵了C。
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