What is the main topic of the talk?

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问题 What is the main topic of the talk?
  
One of the most popular myths about the United States in the 19th century was that of the free and simple life of the farmers. It was said that the farmers worked hard on their own land to produce whatever their families needed. They might sometimes trade with their neighbors, but in general they could get along just fine by relying on themselves, not on commercial ties with others. This was how Thomas Jefferson idealized the farmers at the beginning of the 19th century. And at that time, this might have been close to the truth especially on the frontier. But by the mid century sweeping changes in agriculture were well underway as farmers began to specialize in raising crops such as cotton or corn or wheat. By late in the century, revolutionary advances in farm machinery have vastly increased production of specialized crops and an extensive network of railroads had linked farmers throughout the country to markets in the east. By raising and selling specialized crops, farmers could afford more and finer goods and achieve a much higher standard of living but at a price. Now farmers are no longer dependent just on the weather and their own effort, their lives are increasingly controlled by banks, which have the power to grant or deny loans for new machinery, and by the railroads, which set the rates for shipping their crops to the market. As businessmen, farmers now have to worry about national economic depressions and the influence of world supply and demand on, for example, the price of wheat in Kansas. By the end of the 19th century, the era of Jefferson’s independent farmer had come to a close.

选项 A、It provided evidence that Jefferson’s ideal could be achieved.
B、It made farmers less dependent on local bankers.
C、It affected the prices that farmers could receive for their crops.
D、It decreased the power of the railroads to control farm prices.

答案C

解析 语义因果关系的判断。文章最后说道“…farmers now have to worry about…the influence of world supplyand demand on,for example,the price of wheat in Kansas.”即“农民们现在不得不操心世界供需市场对他们的影响,如Kansas小麦的价格”,根据前后上下文可判断,这句话存在因果关系,因此涉及price的选项C的说法是正确的。
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