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Read the passage, then choose the correct answer to each of the questions that follow.

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 communications, 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 commodity 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 system" in which plants became larger, more complex,  and more systematically organized and managed. And in distribution, the transformation was  marked by the emergence of the jobber, the wholesaler, and the mass retailer. These changes  radically altered the nature of work during the half century between 1870 and 1920.

To be sure, there were still small workshops, where skilled craftspeople manufactured products ranging from newspapers to cabinets to plumbing fixtures. There were the sweatshops in city tenements, where groups of men and women in household settings manufactured clothing or cigars on a piecework basis. And there were factories in occupations such as metalwork where individual contractors presided over what were essentially handicraft proprietorships that coexisted within a single buildings. But as the number of wage earners in manufacturing rose from 2.7 million in 1880 to 4.5 million in 1900 and to 8.4 million in 1920, the number of huge plants like the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia burgeoned, as did the size of the average plant. (The Baldwin Works had 600 employees in 1855, 3,000 in 1875, and 8,000 in 1900.) By 1920, at least in the northeastern  United  States  where  most  of  the  nation's  manufacturing  wage  earners  were concentrated, three-quarters of those worked in factories with more than 100 employees and 30 percent worked in factories with more than 1,000 employees. 

Trả lời cho các câu 41170, 41171, 41172, 41173, 41174, 41175, 41176, 41177 dưới đây:

Câu hỏi số 1:
The word "domains" in line 3 is closest in meaning to ______ .

Đáp án đúng là: A

Câu hỏi:41171
Giải chi tiết
Câu hỏi số 2:
What can be inferred from the passage about the agricultural sector of the economy after the Civil War?     

Đáp án đúng là: B

Câu hỏi:41172
Giải chi tiết
Câu hỏi số 3:
The word "fundamental" in line 7 is closest in meaning to _______ .

Đáp án đúng là: B

Câu hỏi:41173
Giải chi tiết
Câu hỏi số 4:
Which of the following was NOT mentioned as part of the "new factory system?"

Đáp án đúng là: D

Câu hỏi:41174
Giải chi tiết
Câu hỏi số 5:
Which of the following statements about manufacturing before 1870 can be inferred from the passage?  

Đáp án đúng là: B

Câu hỏi:41175
Giải chi tiết
Câu hỏi số 6:
The word "skilled" in line 15 is closest in meaning to ______.

Đáp án đúng là: B

Câu hỏi:41176
Giải chi tiết
Câu hỏi số 7:
The words "presided over" in line 19 are closest in meaning to ______ .

Đáp án đúng là: A

Câu hỏi:41177
Giải chi tiết
Câu hỏi số 8:
The author mentions the Baldwin Locomotive Works in lines 21-22 because it was ______ .

Đáp án đúng là: C

Câu hỏi:41178
Giải chi tiết

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