六级阅读考前补习（6）
Test Six??
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Sometimes the U.S. government goes out of its way to prove it can be an absolute nuisance. Take the case of Southern Clay, Inc., which has a factory at Paris, Tennessee, putting out a clay product for cat?boxes best known as “Kitty Litter.”?It’s a simple enough process, but the Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration insists that since clay comes from the ground—an excavation half a mile from the Kitty Litter plant—the company actually is engaged in mining and milling. Therefore, says MSHA, Southern Clay is subject to all the rules that govern, say, coal miners working in shafts several hundred feet down.?
The company has been told to devise an escape system and fire?fighting procedure in case there is a fire in its “mine.” Southern Clay estimates it will lose 6,000 man?hours in production time giving its 250 factory workers special training in how to escape from a mine disaster.?
One thing that has always impressed us about cats, in addition to their tidiness, is that they seem to watch the human world with a sense of wise and detached superiority, as though they wondered what the hustle and bustle is all about. If they grin from time to time, as some people insist, it’s no wonder.
1. The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to ____.?
A. explain how Kitty Litter is produced?
B. describe the Mine Safety and Health Administration?
C. show how tidy cats are?
D. show that the government can sometimes be a nuisance?
2. The clay excavation is ____.?
A. half a mile underground?
B. several miles from Paris, Tennessee?
C. worked by miners in shafts several hundred feet down?
D. half a mile from the Kitty Litter plant?
3. What is the meaning of “man?hour”??
A. The time needed in finishing the work by one man.?
B. The work done by one man in one hour.?
C. The man needed in finishing the work in one hour.?
D. The work done by one man