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According to anthropologists, people in pre-industrial societies spent 3 to

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问题     According to anthropologists, people in pre-industrial societies spent 3 to 4 hours per day or about 20 hours per week doing the work necessary for life. Modern comparisons of the amount of work performed per week, however, begin with the Industrial Revolution (1760—1840) when 10- to 12-hour workdays with six workdays per week were the norm. Even with extensive time devoted to work, however, both incomes and standards of living were low. As incomes rose near the end of the Industrial Revolution, it became increasingly common to treat Saturday afternoons as a half-day holiday. The half holiday had become standard practice in Britain by the 1870’s, but did not become common in the United States until the 1920’s.
    In the United States, the first third of the twentieth century saw the workweek move from 60 hours per week to just under 50 hours by the start of the 1930’s. In 1914 Henry Ford reduced daily work hours at his automobile plants from 9 to 8.In 1926 he announced that henceforth his factories would close for the entire day on Saturday. At the time, Ford received criticism from other firms such as United States Steel and Westinghouse, but the idea was popular with workers.
    The Depression years of the 1930’s brought with them the notion of job sharing to spread available work around; the workweek dropped to a modem low for the United States of 35 hours. In 1938 the Fair Labor Standards Act mandated a weekly maximum of 40 hours to begin in 1940, and since that time the 8-hour day, 5-day workweek has been the standard in the United States.
    Adjustments in various places, however, show that this standard is not immutable. In 1987, for example, German metalworkers struck for and received a 37.5-hour workweek; and in 1990 many workers in Britain won a 37-hour week. Since 1989, the Japanese government has moved from a 6- to a 5-day workweek and has set a national target of 1, 800 work hours per year for the average worker. The average amount of work per year in Japan in 1989 was 2,088 hours per worker, compared to 1, 957 for the United States and 1,646 for France. [br] We know from the passage that all the following are evidences that the length of the workweek has been declining since the nineteenth century EXCEPT________.
选项 A、The half-day holiday
B、Henry Ford
C、United States Steel and Westinghouse
D、German metalworkers
答案 C
解析 本题提问与工作时长缩短不相关的人物或事件。C项United States Steel and Westinghouse “全美钢铁和西屋电气”是对福特提出的周六放假表示反对的两大公司，因此C项符合题目要求。A项“半天假期”是减少工作时长的开始。B项亨利.福特是美国首个提出周六停工的雇主。D项德国金工工人通过罢工争取到了37. 6小时的周工作时长，因此这3项均与工作时长减少有关，不符合题目要求，故都予以排除。
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