The company decided to manufacture its components in-house to reduce costs and maintain strict quality control over the final product.
该公司决定在内部制造其零部件，以降低成本并对最终产品保持严格的质量控制。
The article begins by acknowledging that automation has eliminated many manufacturing jobs, but it spends the bulk of its length arguing that automation has also created new categories of employment in fields like robotics maintenance and software design.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
While solar panel efficiency has roughly doubled over the past two decades, the primary driver of falling solar energy costs has actually been manufacturing scale: as factories produce panels in ever-larger volumes, the cost per unit has dropped far more than efficiency gains alone would predict.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
The essay begins by conceding that automation has increased efficiency in manufacturing, but the majority of the text focuses on documenting the loss of institutional knowledge that occurs when experienced workers are replaced by machines.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “manufacture”?
B — Make products. “manufacture” means make products.
Which word means “make products”?
D — manufacture. “manufacture” means make products.
manufacture — make products. In Chinese: 制造，生产.
manufacture is pronounced /ˌmænjuˈfæktʃər/.
The company decided to manufacture its components in-house to reduce costs and maintain strict quality control over the final product. (该公司决定在内部制造其零部件，以降低成本并对最终产品保持严格的质量控制。)
produce, fabricate, make — all close in meaning to manufacture (make products).
destroy, dismantle — each the opposite of manufacture (make products).
Yes. manufacture is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
manu(hand)+fact(make)+ure