The railroad simultaneously stripped the landscape of the naturalresources, made velocity of transport and economy of scale necessary parts ofindustrial production, and carried consumer goods to households; it dispatchedimmigrants to unsettled places, drew emigrants away from farms and villages tocities, and sent men and guns to battle. It standardized time and travel,seeking to annihilate distance and space by allowing movement at any time and inany season or type of weather. In its grand and impressive terminals andstations, architects recreated historic Roman temples and public baths, Frenchchateaus and Italian bell towers — edifices that people used as stages for manyof everyday life's high emotions: meeting and parting, waiting and worrying,planning new starts or coming home.
Passenger terminals, like the luxury express trains that hurled people overspots, spotlight the romance of railroading. (The twentieth-Century Limited spedbetween Chicago and New York in twenty hours by 1915). Equally important toeveryday life were the slow freight trans chugging through industrial zones, themorning and evening commuter locals shuttling back ions and urban terminals, andthe incessant comings and goings that occurred in the classifications, orswitching, yards. Moreover, in addition to its being a transportation pathwayequipped with a mammoth physical plant of tracks signals, crossings, bridges,and junctions, plus telegraph and telephone lines the railroad nurtured factorycomplexes, coat piles, warehouses, and generating stations, forming along itsright-of-way what has aptly been called the metropolitan corridor of theAmerican landscape.
1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) The influence of ancient architecture on the design of railroadterminals
(B) The importance of natural resources in the development of railroads
(C) The railroad's impact on daily life in the United States in thenineteenth century
(D) Technological improvements in the area of communication in thenineteenth century
2. It can be inferred from the quote from the Omaha Daily Republican (line2-4) that railroads
(A) made all sections of the nation much wealthier
(B) brought more unity to what had been a fragmented nation
(C) reduced dependence on natural resources
(D) had no effect on the environment of the United States
3. The word it in line 7 refers to
(A) transport
(B) scale
(C) production
(D) railroad
4. The word drew in line 8 is closest
(A) obliged
(B) designed
(C) helped
(D) attracted
5. The word annihilate in line 9 is closest in meaning to
(A) conquer
(B) utilize
(C) separate
(D) mechanize
6. The word Moreover in line 20 is closest in meaning to
(A) consequently
(B) furthermore
(C) although
(D) because
7. All of the following were true of impressive passenger terminalsEXCEPT:
(A) Their architecture was influenced by the architecture of Europe.
(B) Luxury express trains traveled between them.
(C) They were usually located in small towns.
(D) They were important to many commuters.
8. According to the passage , which type of development lined the areaalong the metropolitan
corridor?
(A) Stores and shopping areas
(B) Recreational areas
(C) Industrial
(D) Agricultural
9. The word aptly in line 24 is closest in meaning to
(A) appropriately
(B) virtually
(C) consistently
(D) incessantly
10. The author mentions the Twentieth-Century Limited as an example of
(A) a freight train
(B) a commuter train
(C) a luxury train
(D) an underground train
11. The author gives a synonym for which of the following words?
(A) homogeneous (line 3)
(B) standardized (line 9)
(C) temples (line 11)
(D) classification(line 20)
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