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2005年TOEFL考试模拟题(2-2)

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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

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