2005年TOEFL考試模擬題(2-2)

READING COMPREHENSION  

Question 1-10  

???The agricultural revolution in the nineteenth century involved two things: the invention  

of labor-saving machinery and the development of scientific agriculture. Labor-saving  

machinery naturally appeared first where labor was scarce. "In Europe, said Thomas  

Jefferson, "the object is to make the most of their land, labor being abundant: here it is to  

make the most of our labor, land being abundant. It was in the United States, therefore,  

that the great advances in nineteenth-century agricultural machinery first came.  

??? At the opening of the century, with the exception of a crude plow, farmers could have  

carried practically all of the existing agricultural implements on their backs; by 1860,  

most of the machinery in use today had been designed in an early form. The most  

important of the early inventions was the iron plow. As early as 1790 Charles Newbold  

of New Jersey had been working on the idea of a cast-iron plow and spent his entire  

fortune in introducing his invention. The farmers, however, were not interested in it,  

claiming that the iron poisoned the soil and made the weeds grow. Nevertheless, many  

people devoted their attention to the plow, until in 1869 James Oliver of South Bend,  

Indiana, turned out the first chilled-steel plow.  

1.What is the main topic of the passage?  

(A) The need for agricultural advances to help feed a growing population  

(B) The development of safer machines demanded by the labor movement  

(C) Machinery that contributed to the agricultural revolution  

(D) New Jersey as a leader in the agricultural revolution  

【TOEFL考試模擬題(2-2)】相關文章：

2023年TOEFL考試模擬題09-28

TOEFL復習與考試心得05-02

TOEFL考試作文經典妙語05-04

TOEFL試題06-22

劉毅TOEFL考試作文經典妙語集錦05-04

最新托福TOEFL考試作文題選編04-25

護士考試模擬題04-29

TOEFL判錯秘訣04-30

TOEFL最新成語及其例句05-04

TOEFL 5分 作文框架05-04