老托福阅读真题及答案【汇总版】.docx

智课网TOEFL备考资料老托福阅读真题及答案【汇总版】 摘要： 老托福阅读真题及答案【汇总版】，下面是小马过河资料下载小编为同学们整理出来的老托福阅读真题及答案，同学们在备考托福阅读时一个不可或缺的资料哦! 老 托福 阅读真题及答案解析是 小马 过河资料下载托福频道小编为同学们整理出来的，主要内容是托福改版前的一些考试真题汇总，还附有具体的答案解析。 老 托福阅读 真题及答案： Railroads reshaped the North American environment and reoriented North American behavior. In a quarter of a century, claimed the Omaha Daily Republican in 1883, they have made the people of the United States homogeneous, breaking through the peculiarities and provincialisms which marked separate and unmingling sections. The railroad simultaneously stripped the landscape of the natural resources, made velocity of transport and economy of scale necessary parts of industrial production, and carried consumer goods to households; it dispatched immigrants to unsettled places, drew emigrants away from farms and villages to cities, and sent men and guns to battle. It standardized time and travel, seeking to annihilate distance and space by allowing movement at any time and in any season or type of weather. In its grand and impressive terminals and stations, architects recreated historic Roman temples and public baths, French chateaus and Italian bell towers — edifices that people used as stages for many of everyday lifes high emotions: meeting and parting, waiting and worrying, planning new starts or coming home. Passenger terminals, like the luxury express trains that hurled people over spots, spotlight the romance of railroading. (The twentieth-Century Limited sped between Chicago and New York in twenty hours by 1915). Equally important to everyday life were the slow freight trans chugging through industrial zones, the morning and evening commuter locals shuttling back ions and urban terminals, and the incessant comings and goings that occurred in the classifications, or switching, yards. Moreover, in addition to its being a transportation pathway equipped with a mammoth physical plant of tracks signals, crossings, bridges, and junctions, plus telegraph and telephone lines the ra