托福考试阅读词汇150题【6】

  　　托福考试阅读词汇150题!随着词汇量的积累，涉及到的单词会越来越难，尤其是在托福阅读词汇题的部分，遇到很多不认识的词汇，关键就是要靠积累，积累多了，我们词汇量越大，然后做起题来就更加容易了。

  　　Paragraph 3: The factory changed that. Goods produced by factories were not as finished or elegant as those done by hand, and pride in craftsmanship gave way to the pressure to increase rates of productivity. The new methods of doing business involved a new and stricter sense of time. Factory life necessitated a more regimented schedule, where work began at the sound of a bell and workers kept machines going at a constant pace. At the same time, workers were required to discard old habits, for industrialism demanded a worker who was alert, dependable, and self-disciplined. Absenteeism and lateness hurt productivity and, since work was specialized, disrupted the regular factory routine. Industrialization not only produced a fundamental change in the way work was organized; it transformed the very nature of work. 【OG- Artisans and Industrialization】

  　　3. The word “disrupted” in the passage is closest in meaning to

  　　○prolonged

  　　○established

  　　○followed

  　　○upset

  　　新托福阅读词汇150题答案：(4)

  　　Paragraph 5: In this newly emerging economic order, workers sometimes organized to protect their rights and traditional ways of life. Craft workers such as carpenters, printers, and tailors formed unions, and in 1834 individual unions came together in the National Trades' Union. The labor movement gathered some momentum in the decade before the Panic of 1837, but in the depression that followed, labor's strength collapsed. During hard times, few workers were willing to strike* or engage in collective action. And skilled craft workers, who spearheaded the union movement, did not feel a particularly strong bond with semiskilled factory workers and unskilled laborers. More than a decade of agitation did finally bring a workday shortened to 10 hours to most industries by the 1850’s, and the courts also recognized workers' right to strike, but these gains had little immediate impact. 【OG- Artisans and Industrialization】

  　　7. The word “spearheaded” in the passage is closest in meaning to

  　　○led

  　　○accepted

  　　○changed

  　　○resisted

  　　新托福阅读词汇150题答案：(1)