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  3. The Industrial Revolution in Britain first began in the textile industry. England had been a major 【S1】______ of wool for centur

The Industrial Revolution in Britain first began in the textile industry. England had been a major 【S1】______ of wool for centur

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问题     The Industrial Revolution in Britain first began in the textile industry. England had been a major 【S1】______ of wool for centuries. Ever since the enclosures, wool and then woolen cloth had been the principal 【S2】______ of England. And cloth-making, though a domestic industry in the early years, had the characteristic of capitalist production which 【S3】______ the employer from the employee and introduced the 【S4】______ of labor, such as carding, spinning, weaving, fulling and dyeing. With the expansion of market, the demand for cloth also 【S5】______. But a spinner with a distaff could only make one thread at a time. The short supply of yarn became the main 【S6】______ to mass production of cloth. The general effort to improve thread-making techniques led to the invention of spinning Jenny in 1764, by the English spinner Hargreaves. The new instrument enabled a singly workman to spin eight or ten threads at once. A year later, Richard Arkwright, a barber, 【S7】______ a device for drawing out thread by means of rollers. Then in 1779, Samual Crompton drew on these two new devices and in- vented a new kind of spinning machine known as the mule. It greatly 【S8】______ the speed of production and improved the quality of thread. Then Arkwright established a great factory by 【S9】______ power-driven mules and became known as Father of Factory System in England. By the end of the 18th Century, power-driven machines spinning two hundred threads 【S10】______ had been introduced in production.

                Word Bank:
A. applying                  I. spare
B. producer                  J. increased
C. revolution                K. obstacle
D. exports                   L. wool
E. simultaneously            M. expansion
F. separated                 N. patented
G. accelerated               O. device
H. division
选项
答案B
解析 此空需填一个名词，联系上下文得知，英国在几个世纪以来一直是羊毛的生产地，所以不难知道producer是正确的，选择B。
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