老托福阅读试题集【附完整版】.docx

智课网TOEFL备考资料老托福阅读试题集【附完整版】 摘要： 托福阅读常考的10中题型（细节题、排除题、推断题、修辞目的题、词汇题、指代题、句子简化题、插入句子题、文章内容小结题和图表题）前六中题型是从老托福附中继承下来的，建议前6题型采用老托福试题集训练，下面我们将老托福阅读试题集分享给大家。 老 托福 阅读试题集： 1997.12 Before the mid-1860s, the impact of the railroads in the United States was limited, in the sense that the tracks ended at the Missouri River, approximately the centers of the country. At that point the trains turned their freight, mail, and passengers over to steamboats, wagons, and stagecoaches. This meant that wagon freighting, stagecoaching and steamboating did not come to an end when the first train appeared; rather they became supplements or feeders. Each new end-of-track became a center for animal-drawn or waterborne transportation. The major effect of the railroad was to shorten the distance that had to be covered by the older, slower, and more costly means. Wagon freighters continued operating throughout the 1870s and 1880s and into the 1890s, although over constantly shrinking routes, and coaches and wagons continued to crisscross the West wherever the rails had not yet been laid. 小马 新托福 阅读资料扫码即送【机经+真题+TPO+OG+模拟】 The beginning of a major change was foreshadowed in the later 1860s, when the Union Pacific Railroad at last began to build westward from the Central Plaints city of Omaha to meet the Central Pacific Railroad advancing eastward from California through the formidable barriers of the Sierra Nevada. Although President Abraham Lincoln signed the original Pacific Railroad bill in 1862 and a revised, financially much more generous version in 1864, little construction was completed until 1865 on the Central Pacific and 1866 on the Union Pacific. The primary reason was skepticism that a railroad built through so challenging and thinly settled a stretch of desert, mountain, and semiarid plain could pay a profit. In the words of an economist, this was a case of premature enterprise, where not only the cost of construction but also the very high risk deterred private investment. In discus