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Adam Smith

　　Adam Smith, writer in the 1770s, was the first person to see the importance of the division of labour and to explain part of its advantages. He gives as an example the process by which pins were made in England.

　　“One man draws out the wire, another strengthens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top to prepare it to receive the head. To make the head requires two or three distinct operations. To put it on is a separate operation; to polish the pins is another. It is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper. And the important business of making pins is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which in some factories are all performed by different people, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them.”

　　Ten men, Smith said, in this way, turned out twelve pounds of pins a day of about 4,800 pins a person. But if all of them had worked separately and independently without division of labour, they certainly could not, each of them, have made twenty pins in a day and perhaps not even one.

　　There can be no doubt that division of labour, provided that it is not taken too far, is an efficient way of organizing work. Fewer people can make more pins. Adam Smith saw this but he also took it for the difference between expanding economies and those that stand still. But division of labour adds nothing new. It only enables people to produce more of what they already have.

1．According to the passage, Adam Smith was the first person to ________.

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A．take advantage of the division of labour

B．introduce the division of labour into England

C．understand the effects of the division of labour

D．explain the causes of the division of labour

2．Adam Smith saw that the division of labour________.

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A．enabled each worker to make pins more quickly and more cheaply

B．increased the possible output per worker

C．increased the number of people employed in factories

D．improved the quality of pins pronduced

3．Adam Smith mentioned the number 4,800 in order to ________.

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A．show the advantages of the division of labour

B．show the advantages of the old craft system

C．emphasize how powerful the individual worker was

D．emphasize the importance of increased production

4．According to the writer, Adam Smith's mistake was in believing that division of labour ________.

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A．was an efficient way of organizing work

B．was an important development in methods of production

C．inevitably(不可避免地) led to economic development

D．increased the production of existing goods

5．“Provided that it is not taken too far”(in the first sentence of the last paragraph) means ________.

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A．if work is done near the factory

B．if the factory is not too big

C．if it is not led to extremity

D．if workers don't have to go a long way

Answer 1

答案：C;B;A;C;C