单选题
{{B}} Directions: For each blank in the following
passage, choose the best answer from the choices givenbelow. Mark your answer on
the ANSWER SHEET by drawing with a pencil a short bar acrossthe corresponding
letter in the brackets.{{/B}} Until recently most
historians spoke very critically of the Industrial Revolution. They{{U}}
31 {{/U}}that in the long run industrialization greatly raised the standard
of living for the {{U}} 32 {{/U}}man. Butthey insisted that its{{U}}
33 {{/U}}results during the period from 1740 to 1840 were widespread
povertyand misery for the {{U}} 34 {{/U}}of the English population.
{{U}} 35 {{/U}}contrast, they saw in the precedinghundred years
from 1640 to 1740, when England was still a{{U}} 36 {{/U}}agricultural
country, a periodof great abundance and prosperity. This
view, {{U}} 37 {{/U}}, is generally thought to be wrong.
Specialists {{U}} 38 {{/U}}history andeconomics, have
{{U}} 39 {{/U}}two things: that the period from 1640 to 1740 was
{{U}} 40 {{/U}}by greatpoverty, and that industrialization
certainly did not worsen and may have actually improved theconditions for the
majority of the populace.