______ Smith could find a job, he could hardly support his family with the low pay.A.Since
______ Smith could find a job, he could hardly support his family with the low pay.
A.Since
B.As
C.Once
D.Even if
______ Smith could find a job, he could hardly support his family with the low pay.
A.Since
B.As
C.Once
D.Even if
Which of the following could serve as an appropriate title for the passage?
A.The Theory of Division of Labor.
B.Adam Smith as the Discoverer of Division of Labor.
C.Adam Smith, the English Economist.
D.Division of Labor, an Efficient Way of Organizing Work.
Why could Adam Smith be the last economist as the face on a bank note?
A.No economic thinker could be more honorable.
B.Cash is very versatile and enduring.
C.We will not need money in the near future.
D.Electronic money will replace cash in the future.
Could you please arrange an appointment for me to see Mr. Smith?
A.keep
B.make
C.do
D.take
From its experience, the dog found that ______.
A.only the paper with Mrs. Smith's words on it could bring it meat
B.the butcher would give the meat to it whenever he saw it
C.a piece of paper could bring him half a pound of meat
D.Mrs. Smith would pay for the meat it got from the butcher
A.Speaking, please.
B.I’m listening.
C.I’m Don.
D.Oh, how are you?
The Significance of the Division of Labour
The significance of the division of labour was first found by Adam Smith in the 1770s. He explained part of its advantages. He gives as an example the process (19) which pins were made in England.
"One man draws (20) 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 (21) two or three operations. To put it on is a (22) operation, to polish the pins is another. And the important business of making pins is, (23) this manner, (24) into about eighteen operations, which in some factories are all performed by different people, (25) in others the same man will sometimes perform. two or three of them. "
Ten men, Smith said, in this way, turned (26) twelve pounds of pins a day or about 4,800 pins per worker. But if all of them had worked separately and (27) without division of labour, none of them could have made twenty pins in a day and perhaps not even one.
There can be no doubt that division of labour is a/an (28) way of (29) work. Fewer people can make more pins. Adam Smith saw this but he also took it for granted that division of labour is in itself responsible for economic (30) and development and that it (31) for the difference between (32) economies and those that (33) still but division of labour adds nothing new; it only enables people to produce more of what they already have.
(19)
A.in
B.on
C.by
D.through
Made could hardly recognize the office she went into as______.
A.she had been there only once
B.Mr. Smith was not in the office
C.nobody was doing any work
D.the office had a new appearance
Mrs. Smith was so()about everything that no servants could please her.
A.specific
B.special
C.precise
D.particular
Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A.Adam Smith put forward the idea of the Division of Labour.
B.Specialisation could solve the problem of unemployment.
C.The Division of Labour makes work more interesting.
D.Adam Smith insisted that each worker be better paid.
Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A.The Division of Labour makes work more interesting.
B.Specialisation could solve the problem of unemployment.
C.Adam Smith put forward the idea of the Division of Labour.
D.Adam Smith insisted that each worker be better paid.