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Industry has great influence on every aspect of the people in the world. The industrial societies have been extremely productive

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问题      Industry has great influence on every aspect of the people in the world. The industrial societies have been extremely productive during the last two centuries. The economic advance has been 【21】______ . People have noticed that during this 【22】______ short period of time, greater changes in people’s 【23】______ have occurred than in the thousands of years which 【24】______ .
   From about 8000 B. C. ,when the agricultural 【25】______ of the human race began in 1776 A. D. , the beginning of the American Revolution, people 【26】______ hardly any richer at all. The Americans of 1776 used the same energy 【27】______ as the Romans of I A. D. Both the ancient Romans and Americans of 200 years ago could travel about the same short 【28】______ in a day. Both had about the same an num income and the same life 【29】______ .
     During the past 200 years the world population has increased 6 times, the annual world 【30】______ has increase 80 times, and the distance a person can travel has 【31】______ up 1,000 times. There has al so been much recent progress 【32】______ art, culture, learning land science. Such changes have 【33】______ to a high rate of production and 【34】______ of the economy.
     Within the next 100 to 150 years, the earth’s resources, economists 【35】______ ,will become very 【36】______ . Their fears are partly 【37】______ , but we Should not be afraid. Industrial civilization 【38】______ to new knowledge, we not only 【39】______ new forms of resources, but we also find ways to 【40】______ their use. Advances modem knowledge can feed the hungry people of the world and improve their standard of living.
【36】
选项 A、scare
B、rare
C、inferior
D、little
答案A
解析 scare“缺乏的，不足的，不充足的，稀有的”；rare“杰出的，珍贵的”；inferior“下等的，低级的”；little“很少的”，常表示否定。句意：自然资源会越来越少，故选A。
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