Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to Indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42.
Railroads reshaped the North American environment and reoriented North American behavior. "In a quarter of a century", claimed the Omaha Daily Republican in 1883, "they have made the people of the United States homogeneous, breaking through the peculiarities and provincialisms which marked separate and unmingling sections."
The railroad simultaneously stripped the landscape of the natural resources, made velocity of transport and economy of scale necessary parts of industrial production, and carried consumer goods to households; it dispatched immigrants to unsettled places, drew emigrants away from farms and villages to cities, and sent men and guns to battle. It standardized time and travel, seeking to annihilate distance and space by allowing movement at any time and in any season or type of weather. In its grand and impressive terminals and stations, architects recreated historic Roman temples and public baths, French chateaus and Italian bell towers " edifices that people used as stages for many of everyday life's high emotions: meeting and parting, waiting and worrying, planning new starts or coming home.
Passenger terminals, like the luxury express trains that hurled people over spots, spotlight the romance of railroading. (The twentieth-Century Limited sped between Chicago and New York in twenty hours by 1915). Equally important to everyday life were the slow freight transport chugging through industrial zones, the morning and evening commuter locals shuttling back urban terminals, and the incessant comings and goings that occurred in the classifications, or switching, yards. Moreover, in addition to its being a transportation pathway equipped with a mammoth physical plant of tracks signals, crossings, bridges, and junctions, plus telegraph and telephone lines the railroad nurtured factory complexes, warehouses, and generating stations, forming along its right-of-way what has aptly been called "the metropolitan corridor" of the American landscape.
It can be inferred from the quote from the Omaha Daily Republican in the first paragraph that railroads______________.
A. made all sections of the nation much wealthier
B. brought more unity to what had been a fragmented nation
C. reduced dependence on natural resources
D. had no effect on the environment of the United States
Railroads reshaped the North American environment and reoriented North American behavior. "In a quarter of a century", claimed the Omaha Daily Republican in 1883, "they have made the people of the United States homogeneous, breaking through the peculiarities and provincialisms which marked separate and unmingling sections."
The railroad simultaneously stripped the landscape of the natural resources, made velocity of transport and economy of scale necessary parts of industrial production, and carried consumer goods to households; it dispatched immigrants to unsettled places, drew emigrants away from farms and villages to cities, and sent men and guns to battle. It standardized time and travel, seeking to annihilate distance and space by allowing movement at any time and in any season or type of weather. In its grand and impressive terminals and stations, architects recreated historic Roman temples and public baths, French chateaus and Italian bell towers " edifices that people used as stages for many of everyday life's high emotions: meeting and parting, waiting and worrying, planning new starts or coming home.
Passenger terminals, like the luxury express trains that hurled people over spots, spotlight the romance of railroading. (The twentieth-Century Limited sped between Chicago and New York in twenty hours by 1915). Equally important to everyday life were the slow freight transport chugging through industrial zones, the morning and evening commuter locals shuttling back urban terminals, and the incessant comings and goings that occurred in the classifications, or switching, yards. Moreover, in addition to its being a transportation pathway equipped with a mammoth physical plant of tracks signals, crossings, bridges, and junctions, plus telegraph and telephone lines the railroad nurtured factory complexes, warehouses, and generating stations, forming along its right-of-way what has aptly been called "the metropolitan corridor" of the American landscape.
It can be inferred from the quote from the Omaha Daily Republican in the first paragraph that railroads______________.
A. made all sections of the nation much wealthier
B. brought more unity to what had been a fragmented nation
C. reduced dependence on natural resources
D. had no effect on the environment of the United States
Chúng ta có thế suy ra từ lời trích dẫn của Omaha Daily Republican ở đoạn đầu rằng đường_____________
A. đã làm cho mọi nơi trên đất nước trở nên giàu có hơn nhiều
B. đã mang lại sự thống nhất hơn cho một đất nước đã bị chia cắt
C. đã giảm sự phụ thuộc vào tài nguyên thiên nhiên
D. đã không ảnh hưởng gì đến môi trường của Mỹ
Thông tin trong bài: "In a quarter of a century", claimed the Omaha Daily Republican in 1883, "they have made the people of the United States homogeneous, breaking through the peculiarities and provincialisms which marked separate and unmingling sections." (Omaha Daily Republican tuyên bố vào năm 1883 rằng: "Trong một phần tư thế kỉ, đường sắt đã làm cho người dân Mỹ trở nên đồng nhất, phá vỡ những tính riêng biệt và tác phong tỉnh lẻ đánh dấu các phần riêng biệt và không trộn lẫn.")
A. đã làm cho mọi nơi trên đất nước trở nên giàu có hơn nhiều
B. đã mang lại sự thống nhất hơn cho một đất nước đã bị chia cắt
C. đã giảm sự phụ thuộc vào tài nguyên thiên nhiên
D. đã không ảnh hưởng gì đến môi trường của Mỹ
Thông tin trong bài: "In a quarter of a century", claimed the Omaha Daily Republican in 1883, "they have made the people of the United States homogeneous, breaking through the peculiarities and provincialisms which marked separate and unmingling sections." (Omaha Daily Republican tuyên bố vào năm 1883 rằng: "Trong một phần tư thế kỉ, đường sắt đã làm cho người dân Mỹ trở nên đồng nhất, phá vỡ những tính riêng biệt và tác phong tỉnh lẻ đánh dấu các phần riêng biệt và không trộn lẫn.")
Đáp án B.