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Britain was a wealthy (富裕的) country. A hundred and fifty years 【B1】 , there were a 【B2】 very rich people 【B3】 received money fro
Britain was a wealthy (富裕的) country. A hundred and fifty years 【B1】 , there were a 【B2】 very rich people 【B3】 received money fro
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Britain was a wealthy (富裕的) country. A hundred and fifty years 【B1】 , there were a 【B2】 very rich people 【B3】 received money from land or investments, and did not need to work. They used to have large 【B4】 of servants to look 【B5】 them. There were al so many middle class people, who worked as businessmen or as doc tots or lawyers. They usually had several servants to 【B6】 their houses and cook their meals.
But there were also many poor people, and there was a big 【B7】 between the rich and the poor.
The poor had very difficult lives. Many worked as servants. They used to be 【B8】 little, and they had to work long hours. But at least they lived in a warm house and were well 【B9】 【B10】 who worked in factories were often less 【B11】 . They used to work many hours a day, in dangerous and unhealthy conditions. But, even so, they did not use to 【B12】 enough to feed their families. They often lived in slums (贫民窟)which were built cheaply by the factory owners.
The 【B13】 paid people were those who worked 【B14】 the farms. At certain times of the year, they did not earn 【B15】 because there was no work 【B16】 them to do.
Life for the poor was not always bad. There were kind farmers and factory owners who helped their workers. And many people were 【B17】 about the poor. One of them was Charles Dickens, the famous British writer. When he was young, his family was always short 【B18】 money. His father was a clerk, who used to 【B19】 more than he earned. When Dickens was eleven, his father was 【B20】 to prison; and Dickens had to work in a factory. At this time, very young children used to work in factories and mines, and clean chimneys.
选项
A、before
B、early
C、soon
D、age
答案
D
解析
A hundred and fifty years ago,150年前。
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