Ⅱ．完形填空。从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个正确答案，并将“答题纸”的相应代码涂黑。错涂、多涂或未涂均无分。（本大题共1 5小题，每小题1分，共15分）
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 16 are mostly bank managers, business executives, airline pilots and the like, but Max’s seven-bedroom house— 17 $
80,000—is the largest in the area. 18 outside the house are Max’s $7000 sports car and his wife’s Morris Mini. 19 is a 150 color TV set and the family’s pride— a circular bath with gold-plated taps. There are also many labor—saving 20 and luxury（豪华） furniture.
How can a plasterer 21 all this? The answer, says Max, is hard work. In partnership with another plasterer, Max does contract plastering jobs for a firm. The owner of the firm 22
them as human machines, the best and quickest in the 23 , who can do as much in two days as any two-man team can in two weeks.
How do they 24 it? Not by working overtime. They work a normal eight-hour day, five days a week. The secret 25 in Max’s hod（桶） in which he carries the plaster(石膏) to the site of the job. Max’s is a superhod—it contains double the usual weight of plaster, and Max, a strong fellow, runs when he carries it. More time is thus 26 to get on with the plastering. Besides, 27 man wastes time smoking, and they 28 their lunch break to a 29 of an hour a day. Now Max earns over $800 a week which is four times the average weekly pay in America today, and if he gets as 30 as $150, it’s a disaster.
16. A. friends B. neighbors
C. relatives D. colleagues
17.A.worthy B. spending
C. costing D. worth
18. A. Stopped B. Stopping
C. Parked D. Parking
19.A.Indoors B. Outdoors
C. Nearby D. Inside
20. A. objects B. devices
C. articles D. materials
21.A.buy B. use
C. afford D. provide
22.A.tells B. says
C. compares D. describes
23.A.trade B. job
C. area D. walk
24.A. manage B. get
C. do D. finish
25.A. is B. lies
C. hides D. falls
26.A.left B. needed
C. spent D. kept
27.A. both B. either
C. neither D. each
28.A.have B. cut
C. miss D. spend
29.A.time B. period
C. limit D. total
30.A. much B. little
C. more D. less
