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More attention was paid to the quality of production in France at the time of Rene Coty. Charles Deschanel was then the financia

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问题    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.   
France was unable to increase the production of quality goods at home due to ______.
选项 A、the government’s reluctance to let workers leave the country
B、lack of qualified workers as a result of labor force drain
C、decrease of the quantity of quality goods produced in foreign countries
D、the precarious and discouraging situation
答案B
解析 细节理解。最后一段的最后一句话说明了当时的法国国内高质量的产品匮乏的原因是大量的高素质劳动力流向海外。所以，应选C项。
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