单选题
More attention was paid to the quality of production
in France at the time of Rene 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 market to compete with those produced in other
countries. The French economy needed a large share of the 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 workers' income. Wages, it is
true, had risen. Extensive family allowances and benefits were paid by the
state, and there were full-time and over-time employment. Taken together, these
factors enabled the working class to exist but allowed them no sense of
security. In this precarious and discouraging situation, workmen were willing to
work overseas for higher wages. The government was reluctant to
let workers leave the country. It was feared that this migration of workers
would deplete 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
According to the passage, the French workers were ______.
A. better paid than workers in other European countries
B. able to save more money with the increase in their wages
C. anxious to work abroad
D. often unable to find work in France
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】细节搜索题。第二段最后一句告诉我们，在当时的经济形势下，“…workmen were willing to work overseas for higher wages．”所以，C项应是正确答案。
单选题
Rene Coty and Charles Deschanel were both interested in ______.
A. better quality in production
B. increasing quantity in production
C. having the government raise tariffs on foreign imports