tailieunhanh - Sparpening skills for the toefl ibt part 19

Tham khảo tài liệu 'sparpening skills for the toefl ibt part 19', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Writing Section Directions This section measures your ability to use writing to communicate in an academic environment. There are two tasks in this section. For the first task you will read a passage and listen to a lecture. You will then write a response to a question based on what you read and hear. For the second task you will write a response to a question based on your own knowledge and experience. Now read the directions for the first writing task. Perhaps the defining feature of the emergence of the modern world was the Industrial Revolution a term that seeks to capture the sweeping technological socioeconomic and cultural changes of the late 18th and early 19th centuries that began in Britain and spread across the globe. One of the most interesting questions in the study of this period is why the Industrial Revolution began in Britain and not elsewhere. For the most part scholars agree that Britain had the necessary preconditions that were not found in such a mature form elsewhere. First the rate of technological innovation and the availability of natural resources allowed a growing merchant class to rapidly transform an agricultural economy into an industrial economy. Britain inventors developed the steam engine expanded railroads and mechanized the production of goods all of which facilitated the growth of industrial factories. Such factories needed raw materials to build and power the new machines as well as to create industrial products. Britain possessed a rich supply of natural resources such as coal iron copper lead and tin. These resources were located in close proximity to population centers thus facilitating their use in factories. A second key factor was population growth. Previously technologies had been applied in agriculture to create more efficient land use and more food production that allowed the island to support a growing population. Moreover as the population grew and farm work became more efficient rural peasants moved to towns and .