【托福考满分阅读】托福阅读Powering the Industrial Revolution模考练习_TOEFL阅读在线练习-托福阅读练习-托福考满分

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The Industrial Revolution would not have been possible without a new source of power that was efficient, movable, and continuously available.

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A. In the early eighteenth century, Savery and Newcomen discovered that expanding steam could be used to raise a piston in a cylinder.
B. Watt’s steam engine played a leading role in greatly increasing industrial production of all kinds.
C. Until the 1830s, Britain was the world’s major producer of steam engines.

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D. In the mid-1700s James Watt transformed an inefficient steam pump into a fast, flexible, fuel-efficient engine.
E. In the 1790s William Murdoch developed a new way of lighting houses and streets using coal gas.
F. The availability of steam engines was a major factor in the development of railroads, which solved a major transportation problem.

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