Read the passage and choose the best answer for each question below. By far the most important United States export product in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was cotton, favored by the European textile industry over flax or wool because it was easy to process and soft to tile touch. Mechanization of spinning and weaving allowed significant centralization and expansion in the textile industry duringthis period, and at the same time the demand for cotton increased dramatically....
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Read the passage and choose the best answer for each question below.
By far the most important United States export product in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was cotton, favored by the European textile industry over flax or wool because it was easy to process and soft to tile touch. Mechanization of spinning and weaving allowed significant centralization and expansion in the textile industry during
this period, and at the same time the demand for cotton increased dramatically. American producers were able to meet this demand largely because of tile invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793. Cotton could be grown throughout the South, but separating the fiber – or lint – from the seed was a laborious process. Sea island cotton was relatively easy to process by hand, because its fibers were long and seeds were concentrated at the base of the flower, but it demanded a long growing season, available only along the nation's eastern seacoast. Short-staple cotton required a much shorter growing season, but the shortness of the fibers and their mixture with seeds meant that a worker could
hand-process only about one pound per day. Whitney's gin was a hand-powered machine with revolving drums and metal teeth to pull cotton fibers away from seeds. Using the gin, a worker could produce up to 50 pounds of lint a day. The later development of larger gins, powered by horses, water, or steam, multiplied productivity further.
The interaction of improved processing and high demand led to the rapid spread of the cultivation of cotton and to a surge in production. It became the main American export, dwarfing all others. In 1802, cotton composed 14 percent of total American exports by value. Cotton had a 36 percent share by 1810 and over a 50 percent share
in 1830. In 1860, 61 percent of the value of American exports was represented by cotton. In contrast, wheat and wheat flour composed only 6 percent of the value of American exports in that year. Clearly, cotton was king in the trade of the young republic. The growing market for cotton and other American agricultural products led to an unprecedented expansion of agricultural settlement, mostly in the eastern half of the United States---west of the Appalachian Mountains and east of the Mississippi River.
According to the passage, one advantage of sea island cotton was its
A. abundance of seeds
B. long fibers
C. long growing season
D. adaptability to different climates
Complete the following text by writing ONE suitable preposition in each gap.
Cotton was cultivated in pakistan about 3,000 BC. It was also grown in Central America. Later it was also grown _on_ Iraq and Egypt. The Industrial Revolution made cotton uch cheaper. In 1771 Richard Arkwright opened a cotton-spinning mill with a machine called a water frame, which was powered__from___ a water mill. Then, in 1779, Samuel Crompton invented a new cotton-spinning machine called a spinning mule. Finally, in 1785 Edmund Cartwright invented a loom that could be powered by a steam engine. In 1794 American Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin. As a result__from_ these new inventions cotton production boomed.
In 1884 Count Hilaire de Chardonnet made the first artificial fibre, from plant cellulose. In the following chemists invented new ways of making fibres__for___ cellulose and by the 1920s they were common. The name rayon was invented in 1924.
Nylon was first made in 1935 by Wallace Carothers. Nylon stockings went__off sale in 1940. Terylene was invented by British scientist John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson in 1941. Spandex was invented by Joseph Shivers in 1958. It was first manufactured in 1962
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