公共英语考试

【单选题】Just outside the northern Italian town ofBra, there rises a church tower with a clock that is a half hour slow. InBra, that’’s close enough to being right on time. Though not far from the industrial city of Turin,Bra smells of roses, and leisure is the law. It is both the home of an international movement that promotes "slow food" (the opposite ofAmerican fast food) and one of 31 Italian municipalities that have joined a sister cause, the "slow cities. " These cities have declared themselves paradises from the accelerating pace of life in the global economy. InBra, population 27,866, the town fathers have declared that all small food shops be closed every Thursday and Sunday. They forbid cars in the town square.All fruits and vegetables served in local schools must be organi
C、The city offers cut-rate mortgages to homeowners who do up their houses using a local butter-colored material and reserves choice commercial real estate for family shops selling handmade chocolates or specialty cheeses.And if the movement leaders get their way, the slow conception will gradually spread acrossEurope.The argument for a SlowEurope is not only that slow is good, but also that it can work. The SlowCity movement, which started in 1999, has turned around local economies by promoting local goods and tourism. Young Italians are moving from larger cities toBra, where unemployment is only 5 percent, about half the nationwide rate. Slow food and wine festivals draw thousands of tourists every year. Shops are thriving, many with sales rising at a rate of 15 percent per year. "This is our answer to globalization," says Paolo Saturnini, the founder of SlowCities.France is the favored proving ground for supporters of what might be called slow economics. Most outsiders have long been doubtful of the French model: short hours and long vacations. Yet the French are more productive on an hourly basis than counterparts in the United States andBritain, and have been for years.The mystery of French productivity has fueled aEurope-wide debate about the merits of working more slowly. It can be inferred from the passage that______.
A、British workers work longer hours than the French
B．French workers work longer hours than the Italians

C、Italian workers are less productive than theAmericans
D．American workers are more productive than theBritish

网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
推理题。文章倒数第二段把法国同美国和英国作比较，法国崇尚的是工作时间短、假期长的模式，由此可推断法国人工作时间比美国人和英国人都短，故选A。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>