[单项选择]During the nineteenth century, Britain’s urban population increased as its rural population diminished. A historian theorizes that, rather than industrialization’s being the cause, this change resulted from a series of migrations to urban areas, each occasioned by a depression in the agrarian economy. To test this hypothesis, the historian will compare economic data with population census data.
The historian’s hypothesis would be most strongly supported if which of the following were found to be true
A. The periods of greatest growth in the industrial economy were associated with a relatively rapid decline in the rural population.
B. The periods of greatest weakness in the agrarian economy were associated with relatively slow growth in the population as a whole.
C. Periods when the agrarian economy was comparatively strong and the industrial economy comparatively weak were associated with a particularly rapid decline in the rural population.
D. Periods when the agrarian and industrial economies were both strong were associated with particularly rapid growth in the urban population.
E. (E) The periods of greatest strength in the agrarian economy were associated with relatively slow growth in the urban population.

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Throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, citizens of the United States maintained a bias against big cities. Most lived on farms and in small towns and believed cities to be centers of corruption, crime, poverty, and moral degradation. Their distrust was caused, in part, by a national ideology that proclaimed farming the greatest occupation and rural living superior to urban living. This attitude prevailed even as the number of urban dwellers increased and cities became an essential feature of the national landscape. Gradually, economic reality overcame ideology. Thousands abandoned the precarious life on the farm for more secure and better paying jobs in the city. But when these people migrated from the countryside, they carried their fears and suspicions with them. These new urbanites, already convinced that cities were overwhelmed with great problems, eagerly embraced the progressive reforms that promise
A. A comparison of urban and rural life in the early twentieth century
B. The role of government in twentieth-century urban renewal
C. Efforts to improve urban life in the early twentieth century
D. Methods of controlling urban growth in the twentieth century

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[单项选择]The dividing line between the nineteenth century and the contemporary American literature is
A. World War Ⅰ.
B. the Great Depression.
C. World War Ⅱ.
D. the Civil War.

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Before the nineteenth century, scientists with an interest in the sea were few and far between.
Certainly Newton considered some theoretical’ aspects of it in his writings, but he was {{U}} (26) {{/U}} to go to sea to {{U}} (27) {{/U}} his work.
For most people the sea was {{U}} (28) {{/U}}, and with the {{U}} (29) {{/U}} of early international travelers or others who earned a living from the sea, there was little reason to ask many questions about it, {{U}} (30) {{/U}} alone to ask what lay beneath the surface. The flint time that the question "What is at the bottom of the oceans " had to be answered with any commercial {{U}} (31) {{/U}} was when the {{U}} (32) {{/U}} of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed. The engineers had to know the depth profile of the {{U}} (33) {{/U}} to estimate the length of cable t
A. laying
B. lying
C. haying
D. claying

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