单选题
For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C andD. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet. Until recently most historians spoke very critically of the Industrial Revolution. They【C1】______that in the long run industrialization greatly raised the standard of living for the【C2】______man. But they insisted that its【C3】______results during the period from 1750 to 1850 were widespread poverty, and misery for the【C4】______of the English population. 【C5】______contrast, they saw in the preceding hundred years from 1650 to 1750, when England was still a【C6】______agricultural country, a period of great abundance and prosperity. This view, 【C7】______, is generally thought to be wrong. Specialists【C8】______history and economics, have【C9】______two things: that the period from 1650 to 1750 was【C10】______by great poverty, and that industrialization certainly did not worsen and may have actually improved the conditions for the majority of the populace.