单选题 More attention was paid to the quality of production in France at the time of René Coty. Charles Deschanel was then the financial minister. He stressed that workmanship and quality were more important than quantity for industrial production. It would be necessary to produce quality goods for the international markets to compete with those produced in other countries. The French economy needed a larger share of international market to balance its import and export trade.
French industrial and agricultural production was still inadequate to meet the immediate needs of the people, let alone long-ranged developments. Essential imports had stretched the national credit to the breaking point. Rents were tightly controlled, but the extreme inflation affected general population most severely through the cost of food. Food costs took as much as 80 percent of the worker"s income. Wages, it is true, had risen. Extensive family allowances and benefits were paid by the state, and there was full-time and overtime employment. Taken together, these factors enabled the working class to exist but allowed them no sense of security. In this discouraging situation, workmen were willing to work overseas for higher wages.
The government was unwilling to let workers leave the country. It was feared that migration of workers would reduce the labor force. The lack of qualified workers might hinder the improvement in the quality of industrial products produced. Qualified workers employed abroad would only increase the quantity of quality goods produced in foreign countries. Also the quantity of quality goods produced in France would not be able to increase as part of its qualified labor force moved to other countries.
单选题 The purpose of the passage is to ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 主旨题。文章开篇便指出在René Coty时期，法国政府很重视产品的质量，并且认为高质量产品是国际市场竞争中取胜的必要因素，接下来论述了只重视质量对法国工人生活的影响，在最后一段指出合格工人涌入国外，法国生产高质量产品的数量不能增加。整个文章体现了法国政府对质量的重视。故A为答案。
单选题 It can be inferred from the passage that at the time of Rene Coty ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 推断题。根据文章第二段最后一句法国工人愿意到国外工作以获取高薪，可见国外的工人比法国工人收入要高。故选B。
单选题 It is implied in the passage that at that time ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。文章第二段指出法国出现的严重的通货膨胀，故D正确。
单选题 Which of the following is the best indicator of the extreme inflation in France?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。根据第二段but the extreme inflation affected general population most severely through the cost of food...可知食品消费占了工人收入的百分之八十，可见昂贵的食品是通货膨胀的表现，故选B。
单选题 Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。文章第二段第三句提到Rents were tightly controlled，故A符合文意，可排除。尽管导致了通货膨胀，政府仍然通过其他措施保障工人的生活，并没有大量生产劣质产品，故B与文意不符，为本题答案。文章最后一段首句提到The government was unwilling to let workers leave the country，故C与文意相符。文章最后一段提到，工人大量的涌出会导致高质量产品的产量下降，而国外来的工人也不会帮助提高产品的质量，故D符合文意。由此可知，B为本题答案。