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> 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 the 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 for 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 at Ford．
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 a11. 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．
23 Paragraph 1
24 Paragraph 2
25 Paragraph 3
26 Paragraph4
A Ford’s Followers
B The Assesmbly Line
C Ford’s Great Drem
D The Establishment of the Company
E Ford’s Biggest Contribution
F Ford’s Great Talent
27 The assembly line made it possible to
28 Ford was the first to adopt
29 Higher wages enabled many people to
30 Ford’s higher—wage and lower—cost strategy was strongly
A criticized by the media
B the low wage in the auto industry
C own a car
D produce cars in large numbers
E the-8-hour-shift practice
F combined technology and market
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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale was born in Florence，Italy, while her wealthy English parents were
traveling in Europe．As a child，she traveled to many places with her family and learned how to
speak several languages．
    When Nightingale was 17，she told her family that she was going to help sick people•Her
parents did not approve, but Nightingale was determined．
    She traveled to hospitals all over Europe．She saw that doctors were working too hard•She
saw that patients died because they did not get enough care．Nightingale felt that women could
be doing more to help doctors take care of sick people•    ．．．．
Nightingale knew that in order for nurses to do more，they needed special training in how to
take care of sick people．Nightingale went to a hospital in Germany to study nursing•Then she
returned to London and became the head of a group of women called Gentlewomen During
Illness．These women cared for sick people in their homes．
    In 1 854，England was fighting a war with Russia，War reporters wrote about the terrible
conditions in the hospitals that cared for the wounded．People demanded that somethin