单选题 Directions: For each blank
in the following passage, choose the best answer from the choices given 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}}(31) {{/U}} that
in the long run industrialization greatly raised the standard of living for the
{{U}}(32) {{/U}} man. But they insisted that its {{U}}(33)
{{/U}} results during the period from 1740 to 1840 were widespread poverty
and misery for the {{U}}(34) {{/U}} of the English population.
{{U}}(35) {{/U}} contrast, they saw in the preceding hundred years from
1640 to 1740, when England was still a {{U}}(36) {{/U}} agricultural
country, a period of great abundance and prosperity. This view,
{{U}}(37) {{/U}} is generally thought to be wrong. Specialists
{{U}}(38) {{/U}} history and economics, have {{U}}(39) {{/U}}
two things: that the period from 1640 to 1740 was {{U}}(40) {{/U}} by
great poverty, and that industrialization certainly did not worsen and may have
actually improved the conditions for the majority of the
populace.