老托福阅读真题PASSAGE 94【荐】.pdfVIP

老托福阅读真题PASSAGE94 托福阅读的思维方式就是托福阅读的出题方式，只有掌握了这种思维方式，才有可能在做题之 前，预测到新托福阅读题的出题形式和特点，为找答案节省时间。老托福阅读试题的核心价值，在 于其最贴近真题的阅读思维方式。此外老托福阅读真题比新托福IBT阅读文章要短，比较容易适应。 这也是大家在备考托福的时候非常重要 的一点。因为前期的入手如果能从容易的开始，就会形成一 个循序渐进的过程方式，让大家的练习有一个提高的过程。 既然老托福阅读试题有这样的效果，那我们如何利用那有限的真题来达到锻炼自己的目的呢? 事实上这就一个办法，就是坚持。本期为大家推荐老托福阅读的真题PASSAGE 94，有原文及答案， 希望对托福考生备考有所帮助。 Industrialization came to the United State after 1790as North American entrepreneurs increased productivity by reorganizing work and building factories. These innovations in manufacturing boosted output and living standards to an unprecedented extent; the average per capita wealth increasedby nearly 1percent per year — 30 percent over the course of a generation. Goods that had once been luxury items became part of everyday life. The impressivegaininoutputstemmedprimarilyfromtheway inwhichworkersmadegoods, sincethe 1790s,North American entrepreneurs — evenwithout technological improvements — had broadened the scope of the outwork system that made manufacturing more efficient by distributing materials to a succession of workers who each performed a single step of theproductionprocess.For example,duringthe 1820sand 1830sthe shoe industrygreatly expanded the scaleand extend of theoutwork system.Tens of thousands of ruralwomen, paid according to the amount they produced, fabricated the uppers of shoes, which were bound tothesolesbywage-earning journeymenshoemakersindozensofMassachusettstowns,whereas previously journeymenwould have made the entire shoe. This system of production made the employer a powerful shoe boss and eroded workers control over the pace and conditions of labor. However, it also dramatically increased the output of shoes while cutting their price. For tasks that were not suited to the outwork system, entrepreneurs created an even more important new organization, the modem factory, which used power-driven machi