【最新考试题库及答案】英语托福考试阅读试题
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英语托福考试阅读试题
Question 1－8
Both the number and the percentage of people in the United States involved in nonagricultural pursuits expanded rapidly during the half century following the Civil War，with some of the most dramatic increases occurring in the domains of transportation，manufacturing，and trade and distribution。The development of the railroad and telegraph systems during the middle third of the nineteenth century led to significant improvements in the speed，volume，and regularity of shipments and munications，making possible a fundamental transformation in the production and distribution of goods。
In agriculture，the transformation was marked by the emergence of the grain elevators，the cotton presses，the warehouses，and the modity exchanges that seemed to so many of the nation‘s farmers the visible sign of a vast conspiracy against them。In manufacturing，the transformation was marked by the emergence of a new factory systemin which plants became larger，more plex，and more systematically organized and managed。And in distribution，the transformation was marked by the emergence of the