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　　Many workers who worked in the World Trade Center after the September eleventh attacks became sick. They breathed a mix of dust, smoke and chemicals in the ruins of the Twin Towers and a third building that fell. Some went clays without good protection for their lungs. Five years later, many of the thousands who worked at Ground Zero in the early days after the attacks still have health problems.

　　Doctors at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City have announced the results of the largest study of these workers. The study confirmed high rates of breathing problems in members of the building trades, firefighters, police officers and other workers. Almost seventy percent of the workers in the study had a new or worsened breathing problem. These problems developed during or after their time working in the mountain of wreckage. About sixty percent still had breathing problems at the time of their examination. The researchers say they decided to study the effects on breathing first because other disorders might be slower to appear. Mount Sinai says it tested almost twelve thousand people between two thousand two and two thousand four. Eight out of ten of them agreed to have their results used in the report. The new results added strength to a Mount Sinai study released in two thousand four. That study was based on only about one thousand workers.

　　Some lawmakers have sharply criticized city and state officials for letting workers labor at Ground Zero without satisfactory equipment. Officials have also been criticized for saying the air was relatively safe. State and federal officials have promised more than fifty million dollars to pay for treatment of the workers. Doctor Robin Herbert is one of the directors of the Mount Sinai testing program. She says people are still coming to the hospital for treatment of problems that were caused by the dust at Ground Zero. In her words:" My worry is that money will be gone in a year, and what happens then?"

　　47. What contributed to problems of the workers in World Trade Center after the attacks?

　　48. Who had the most serious breathing problems according to the latest study?

　　49. The researchers decided to carry on some study on the effects on breathing first because __________ might appear in a later period of time.

　　50. ______ are sharply criticized by some lawmakers because they let workers labor at Ground Zero with out satisfactory equipment.

　　51. What measures have the officials promised to take to deal with the health problem?

　　答案

　　47. A harmful mix of dust，smoke and chemicals in the ruins.

　　48. The building trades，firefighters，police officers and other workers. 49. other disorders

　　50. City and state officials 51. To pay more than fifty million dollars for treatment of the workers.

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　　As Toyota and Hummer have learned, growing too fast can be a dangerous thing.

　　From its origins, success in the auto industry has been about scale. In the early decades of the 20th century, Henry Ford was able to democratize the car and dominate the early auto industry because he built, and then continually improved, an assembly line that could make huge numbers of cars in a short amount of time. Bigger was always better.

　　But two items from yesterday’s dispatch in the ongoing car dramas indicate why that’s not always true.

　　Item No. 1: The Toyota debacle ***失敗***. The mass failings of Toyota’s legendary quality-control efforts are now on full display in the hearings that have subjected CEO Akio Toyoda to a ritualized set of apologies and humiliations ***羞辱***. In recent years Toyota rode its efficiency and better financial management — it didn’t have to contend with the burdensome pension and health-care benefits that sandbagged the Big Three ***i.e. General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler*** — to large gains in market share and significant growth. In 2007 Toyota surpassed GM as the largest carmaker in the world.

　　But something got lost in the process. As Toyoda acknowledged on Wednesday: “I fear the pace at which we have grown may have been too quick. I would like to point out here that Toyota’s priority has traditionally been: first, safety; second, quality; and third, volume. These priorities became confused.” In other words, Toyoda seemed to admit, the company went wrong by moving size — i.e., volume — to the front of the line.

　　Item No. 2: After a series of failed efforts to sell it, GM announced that its Hummer brand would be wound down. Hummer had a different problem with bigness than Toyota has. It wasn’t that its production volumes were too high. In 2008 only 2,710 Hummers were sold. Rather, the outsize Hummer was simply too big — too inefficient, too out of step with the times — to succeed in a marketplace in which oil spiked to $150 per barrel and seems to have settled at a plateau above $70 a barrel. As the economy tanked, energy prices rose, and the spirit of the time shifted in favor of conservation, the gas-guzzling Hummer faced a double whammy ***厄運***: consumers had difficulty affording the vehicle’s high list price as well as difficulty affording its high operating price.

　　Size does matter when it comes to auto production. But not always in the way manufacturers think.

　　47. The example of Henry Ford’s assembly line suggests that the success in the auto industry was built on .

　　48. According to the author, Toyota’s fast growth in recent years was attributed to .

　　49. CEO Akio Toyoda seemed to admit that Toyota betrayed its tradition of putting at top priority.

　　50. According to the passage, GM decided to gradually bring its Hummer brand to an end because of .

　　51. According to the passage, whether purchasing or operating a Hummer, consumers found it hard to .

　　答案

　　47. scale

　　48. its efficiency and better financial management

　　49. safety

　　50. a series of failed effort to sell it

　　51. afford the high prices