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A There is a workman in America who earns as much as a company director.He is Max Quarterman，a thirty-year-old plasterer(泥瓦匠)． Max lives in an upper middle-class housing estate.His 1 are mostly bank managers，business executives，airline pilots and the 2 ，but Max’s seven-bedroom house— 3 80,000—is the largest in the area. 4 outside the house are Max’s 7,000 sports car and his wife’s Morris Mini.Indoors is a 150 colour TV set and the family’s 5 —a circular bath with gold-plated taps.There are also many labour-saving 6 and luxury furniture. How can a plasterer 7 all this？The answer，says Max，is hard work.In 8 with another plasterer，Max 9 contract plastering jobs for a firm.The owner of the firm 10 them as human machines，the best and quickest in the 11 ，who can do as much in two days as 12 two-man team can in two weeks. How do they manage it？Not by working overtime.They work a(n) 13 eight-hour day，five days a week.The secret 14 in Max’s hod(桶) in which he carries the plaster to the site of the job.Max’s is a superhod—it contains double the usual 15 of plaster，and Max，a strong fellow，runs when he carries it.More time is thus 16 to get on with the plastering.Besides， 17 man wastes time smoking，and they 18 their lunch break to a 19 of an hour a day.Now Max earns over 800 a week which is four times the average weekly pay in Britain today，and if he gets as 20 as 15，it’s a disaster. 语篇解读　本文属于记叙文。介绍了美国的一个泥瓦匠凭借很高的工作效率，取得了很好的经济效益，过上了上流社会的生活。 1．A.colleagues B．neighbours C．relatives D．friends 答案　B 解析　colleague同事；neighbour邻居；relative亲戚；friend朋友。根据空格前一句“Max lives in an upper middle-class housing estate.”他住在一个中产阶级的高级小区，那么本句谈论的是他的邻居的情况。故选B。 2．A.like B．kind C．class D．same 答案　A 解析　固定短语the like意为“类似的人”。句意为：他的邻居大部分都是银行经理、企业高管、飞行员等这一类的人。故A正确。 3．A.worthy B．spending C．costing D．worth 答案　D 解析　根据空格后的名词80 000可知本句介绍他的房子价值80 000。四个选项中，只有形容词worth后面接表示价格的名词，故D正确。 4．A.Stopped B．Stopping C．Parked D．Parking 答案　C 解析　stop停止；park停车，泊车。根据本句后半句中的sports car