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[单项选择]Time clocks are banned from the premises. Managers and workers converse on a first- name basis and eat lunch together in the company cafeteria. Employees are briefed once a month by a top executive on sales and production goals and are encouraged to air their complaints. Four times a year, workers attend company-paid parties. Says Tom Zolick, 49, an assembly-line worker. "Working for Sony is like working for your family."
His expression, echoed by dozens of other American Sony workers in San Diego, is a measure of success achieved at the sprawling two-story plant, where both the Stars and Stripes and the Rising Sun fly in front of the factory’s glistening white exterior. In 1981 the San Diego plant turned over 700,000 color television sets, one-third of Sony’s total world production. More significantly, company officials now proudly say that the plant’s productivity approaches that of its Japanese branches.
Plant manager Tery Osaka, 47, insists that there are few diffe
A. detached
B. harmonious
C. unfriendly
D. very formal
[填空题]Clocks through Time
It took human being a long time to invent diverse ways for telling time. About
3000 years ago people first made a circle with a stick in the center of it to (1) [1] ____.
_____ the passage of time by noticing various marks on the circle the shadow of
the stick tell across.
Since these kinds of circles that are-called (2) ____ did not work without [2] ____.
the sun, men had to find other ways to keep track of time, including a (3) ____. [3] ____.
candle on which each stripe took about one hour to melt, a water clock which had a
line with a number beside it for every hour and an (4) ____ which followed the [4] ____.
invention of glass blowing.
The first clock with a face and an hour hand was invented about 600 years ago
for few people. With the gradually (5) ____ use of clocks, they were beautiful- [5] ____.
ly (6) ____, though they could not keep correct time. Scarcely had clocks been [6] ____.
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