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}} {{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
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{{/U}}contrast, 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}}, s 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
improved the conditions for the majority of the populace.