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新托福阅读词汇150题(72):accustomed&used to

2015-08-13 10:53:11来源:网络

  【新托福阅读词汇150题(72):accustomed&used to新托福TPO阅读中,词汇题是重要托福阅读题型。托福阅读词汇题做题需要考生掌握一定的词汇量和做题技巧。本文中新东方在线托福网汇总了新托福阅读词汇150题:accustomed&used to。

  Paragraph 3: Watt's steam engine soon showed what it could do. It liberated industry from dependence on running water. The engine eliminated water in the mines by driving efficient pumps, which made possible deeper and deeper mining. The ready availability of coal inspired William Murdoch during the 1790s to develop the first new form of nighttime illumination to be discovered in a millennium and a half. Coal gas rivaled smoky oil lamps and flickering candles, and early in the new century, well-to-do Londoners grew accustomed to gaslit houses and even streets. Iron manufacturers, which had starved for fuel while depending on charcoal, also benefited from ever-increasing supplies of coal: blast furnaces with steam-powered bellows turned out more iron and steel for the new machinery. Steam became the motive force of the Industrial Revolution as coal and iron ore were the raw materials. 【TPO6-Powering the Industrial Revolution】

  8. The phrase “grew accustomed to” in the passage is closest in meaning to

  ○began to prefer

  ○wanted to have

  ○became used to

  ○insisted on

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