【单选题】

There is a workman inAmerica who earns as much as a company director. He is Max Quarterman, a thirty-year-old plasterer(泥瓦匠)．Max lives in an upper middle-class housing estate. His 16 are mostly bank managers, business executives, airline pilots and the like, but Max’s seven-bedroom house— 17 $ 80,000—is the largest in the are

A、 18 outside the house are Max’s $7000 sports car and his wife’s Morris Mini. 19 is a 150 color TV set and the family’s pride— a circular bath with gold-plated taps. There are also many labor—saving 20 and luxury(豪华) furniture.How can a plasterer 21 all this The answer, says Max, is hard work. In partnership with another plasterer, Max does contract plastering jobs for a firm. The owner of the firm 22 them as human machines, the best and quickest in the 23 , who can do as much in two days as any two-man team can in two weeks.How do they 24 it Not by working overtime. They work a normal eight-hour day, five days a week. The secret 25 in Max’s hod(桶) in which he carries the plaster(石膏) to the site of the joB、Max’s is a superhod—it contains double the usual weight of plaster, and Max, a strong fellow, runs when he carries it. More time is thus 26 to get on with the plastering.Besides, 27 man wastes time smoking, and they 28 their lunch break to a 29 of an hour a day. Now Max earns over $800 a week which is four times the average weekly pay inAmerica today, and if he gets as 30 as $150, it’s a disaster.
A、time
B．period
C．limit
D．total