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Usually people can’t feel the change of the society. From generation to generation we live in the same frame of family and structure and society. But as a matter of fact, the change of the society is changing rapidly. People in the United States in the nineteenth century were haunted by the prospect that unprecedented change in the nation’s economy would bring social chaos. In the years following 1820, after several decades of relative stability, the economy entered a period of sustained and extremely rapid growth that continued to the end of the nineteenth century. Accompanying that growth was a structural change that featured increasing economic diversification and a gradual shift in the nation’s labor force from agriculture to manufacturing and other nonagricultural pursuits.
Although the birth rate continued to decline from its high level of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the population roughly doubled every generation during the rest
A. emigrated to other countries
B. often settled in the West
C. tended to change the place in which they lived
D. had a higher rate of birth than ever before

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Usually people can’t feel the change of the society. From generation to generation we live in the same frame of family and structure and society. But as a matter of fact, the change of the society is changing rapidly. People in the United States in the nineteenth century were haunted by the prospect that unprecedented change in the nation’s economy would bring social chaos. In the years following 1820, after several decades of relative stability, the economy entered a period of sustained and extremely rapid growth that continued to the end of the nineteenth century. Accompanying that growth was a structural change that featured increasing economic diversification and a gradual shift in the nation’s labor force from agriculture to manufacturing and other nonagricultural pursuits.
Although the birth rate continued to decline from its high level of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the population roughly doubled every generation during the rest
A. A highly conservative society that was resistant to new ideas.
B. A society that was undergoing fundamental change.
C. A society that had been gradually changing since the early 1700's.
D. A nomadic society that was starting permanent settlements.

[单项选择]Why do thin people usually feel better in hot days than fat people


A. Thin people perspire less.
B. Fat people do not sweat as much as thin people do.
C. Thin people have less heat inside their bodies.
D. Fat people have more fat cells which keep the heat inside.

[单项选择]In the sunny morning some English people usually take a raincoat or an umbrella with them because ______ .


A. their friends ask them to do so
B. it often rains in England
C. they are their favourite things

[单项选择]If such unhappy people don't change their bad behavior, the author's solution to the problem is that________.
A. people should help them
B. people should avoid contact with them
C. people should pay no attention to them
D. people should show no respect to them

[单项选择]Twenty years ago people usually had no more than two telephones.

[单项选择]People who feel miserable with computers are those ______.
A. who love reading books and writing with a pen or a typewriter
B. who possess the wrong aptitudes of disliking and fearing new things
C. who have not been trained to use computers
D. who are born with a temperament that does not respond to computers

[单项选择]To cure nearsightedness, people don't usually______.


A. depend on medicine
B. use equipment
C. think of foot exercises
D. pay attention to correcting the way children read and sit

[单项选择]Young people often feel that the age of eighteen is the _______.


A. fight age to get married
B. gateway to happiness
C. hardest part of life
D. best time of life