单选题Directions: For each blank in the
.following passage, choose the best answer from the choices giv- en below.
Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by drawing with a pencil a short bar
across the corresponding letter in the brackets.
Until recently most historians spoke very critically of the Industrial
Revolution. They {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}that in the long run
industrialization greatly raised the standard of living for the {{U}}
{{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}man. But they insisted that its {{U}}
{{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}results during the period from 1740 to 1840
were widespread poverty and misery for the {{U}} {{U}} 4
{{/U}} {{/U}}of the English population. {{U}} {{U}} 5
{{/U}} {{/U}}con- trast, they saw in the preceding hundred years from 1640 to
1740, when England was still a{{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}}
{{/U}}agricultural country, a period of great abundance and prosperity.
This view, {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}, is generally
thought to be wrong. Specialists {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}}
{{/U}}history and economics, have {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}two
things: that the period from 1640 to 1740 was{{U}} {{U}} 10
{{/U}} {{/U}}by great poverty, and that industrialization certainly did not
worsen and may have actually im- proved the conditions for the majority of the
populace.