练习1单项选择
1. Streams Rowed where nature intended them to, and water driven factories had to be located on their _____whether or not the location was desirable for other reasons.
A. mills
B. textiles
C. canals
D. banks
2. During hard times, few workers were willing to_____ or engage in collective action.
A. strike
B. factory
C. supply
D. consume
3. The sheer scale of the investment it took to begin commercial expansion at sea reflects the immensity of the _____that such East-West trade could create.
A. money
B. mercantile
C. profits
D. pay
4. The labor movement gathered some momentum in the decade before the Panic of 1837, but in the _____that followed, labor's strength collapsed.
A. depression
B. bill
C. joint
D. monopoly
5. The high cost to_____ of developing trade by sea between East and West indicates the great size of the profits that such trade could produce.
A. artisans
B. investors
C. commerce
D. league
6. In some industrial regions, heavily laden wagons, with flanged wheels, were being _____by horses along metal rails.
B. produced
A. hauled
D. manufactured
C. yielded
7. Although fat boats and keelboats continued to be important until the 1850's steamboats eventually superseded all other craft in the carrying of passengers and____
A. freight
B. navigator
D. harbor
C. barter
8. Ordinary meteoric water is water that has soaked into the ground from the surface, from precipitation (rain and snow) and from lakes and____
A. streams
B. steams
C. banks
D. ports
9. In the late 1700s James Watt designed an efficient and commercially viable _engine that was soon applied to a variety of industrial uses as it became cheaper to use.
A. stream
B. material
C. steam
D. machine
10. In 1970 geologists Kenneth J. Hsu and William B.F. Ryan were collecting research data while_____ the oceanographic research vessel Glomar Challenger.
A. abroad
B. maritime
C. aboard
D. voyage
练习2请将A、B两栏中的同义表达连接起来
