2014届高考英语阅读理解专题测试卷 (3).doc

【广东省 2012 届高三考前冲刺卷(三)】 C Technology has been an encouragement of historical acted as such a force in England beginning in the eighteenth century , and across the entire Western World in the advances were made in the use of scientific findings in the manufacture( 制造) of goods , which has changed ideas about of the first changes was that other forms of energy have taken the place of human with this came the increased use of machines to manufacture products in less also developed machines that could produce the same parts for a product : each nail was exactly like every other nail , meaning that each nail could be changed for every other means that goods could be mass production , although mass production required breaking production down into smaller and smaller tasks. Once this was done , workers no longer started on the product and laboured plete , they might work only one thousandth of it, other pleting their own parts in certain is nothing strange about this manufacturing work by today ’s skilled workers were unable pare with the new production techniques , as mass production allowed goods of high standard to be produced in greater number than could ever be done by the skilled worker wasn ’t the only loser , mon workers lost changes forced farmers away