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ining of crude oil into kerosene, and later the development of electric lighting as well as of the telephone, brought additional forts to urban areas that were unavailable to rural Americans and helped attract many of them from the farms into the cities. In every era the lure of the city included a major psychological element for country people: the bustle and social interaction of urban life seemed particularly intriguing to those raised in rural isolation. 1. What aspects of the United States in the nineteenth century does the passage mainly discuss? (A) Technological developments (B) The impact of foreign immigrants on cities (C) Standards of living (D) The relationship between industrialization and urbanization 2. The word influx注入,涌入 in line 1 is closest in meaning to (A) working (B) processing 調(diào)整,加工,處理,沖洗,理賠,工藝設(shè)計(jì)… (C) arrival (D) attraction 3. The paragraph preceding the passage most probably discuss (A) foreign immigration