训练(三) “推理判断题”重点练
(一)
They had a dozen children, six boys and six girls, in seventeen years. One reason Dad had so many children was that he was confident that anything he and Mother teamed upon was sure to be a success.
Our house at Montclair, New Jersey, was a sort of school for scientific management and the removal of the wasted motion—or “motion study”, as Dad and Mother named it.
Dad took moving pictures of us children washing dishes, so that he could determine how we could reduce our motion and thus hurry through the task. Each child who wanted extra pocket money put forward an offer saying what he would do the job for. The lowest bidder got the contract(合约).
Dad put process and work charts in the bathrooms. Every child old enough to write—and Dad expected his children to start writing at a young age—was required to sign their names on the charts in the morning after he had brushed his teeth, taken a bath, combed his hair, and made his bed. At night, each child had to weigh himself, mark the figure on a graph, and sign the charts again after he had done his homework, washed his hands and face, and brushed his teeth. Mother wanted to have a place on the charts for saying prayers, but Dad said as far as he was concerned prayers were voluntary.
It was strict management, all right. Yes, at home or on the job, Dad was always the efficiency expert. He buttoned his vest from the bottom up, instead of from the top down, because the bottom-to-top process took
him only three seconds, while the top-to-bottom took seven. He even used two shaving brushes to make his face smooth enough, because he found that by doing so he could cut seventeen seconds off his shaving time. For a while he tried shaving with two razors, but he finally gave that up.
“I can save forty-four seconds,” he complained, “but I wasted two minutes this morning putting this bandage on my throat.” It wasn",t the injured throat that really bothered him. It was the two minutes. 1.Why was the author",s house considered a sort of school? A.It had a team of twelve children there.
B.The children were taught how to work well in it. C.The parents could teach their children better at home.
D.The parents could have the children",s daily activities recorded. 2.What is the purpose of signing the charts? A.To help to do things efficiently. B.To manage the big family effectively. C.To look after the children better. D.To remind the children to obey the rules. 3.What did the father complain about one morning? A.He should have given up shaving. B.His bleeding throat bothered him. C.He couldn",t shave with two razors. D.He failed to cut short his shaving time. 4.What can we infer from the text?
A.The kids had to bid for everything they wanted. B.The author took pride in his father",s management. C.The couple were always troubled by their children.
D.The father",s work was to teach the children at home.
(二)
The extraordinary price paid for the last Leonardo da Vinci",s painting in private hands has resulted in a fevered guess at the buyer—but so far the new owner",s identity is inscrutable. Christie",s, the auction(拍卖) house that sold Salvator Mundi in New York on Wednesday, has remained silent about who paid $450m for the 500-year-old work—a price that set a world auction record. With the pool of possible buyers limited to billionaires and a very few institutions, some in the art world are trying to narrow it down to a region or nationality.
Thomas Seydoux, an art adviser and former head of Impressionist and Modern Art at Christie",s, suspects that the bidder is “new money”, because the bidding went up in “wild increases”—at one stage jumping from $370m to $400m. He guessed that the buyer might be a billionaire from Asia, based on current trends in the world of fine art auctions.
Others have suggested a Gulf royal or billionaire—perhaps from Qatar, which has lavishly (大量地) collected art, or Abu Dhabi, which has just opened a branch of the Louvre Museum. The Abu Dhabi branch has a Leonardo",s painting, La belle ferronnière, on loan from the Louvre in Paris but lacks its own.
Salvator Mundi has a troubled history. It was sold for ￡45 at Sotheby",s in London in 1958, when it was thought to be a copy, but by 2011 it had been accepted as a work entirely by Leonardo, when it was included