WorksheetsTBI Reading Part I
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 14mins
What aspect of the US in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries does the passage mainly discuss?
Why young women chose to move from farms to cities
The number and types of manufacturing jobs created in cities
Changes in settlement patterns between farms and cities
The effects of mechanization on western migration
The word "expansion" in line 1 is closest in meaning to
change
growth
population
labor
The word "abandoned" in line 3 is closest in meaning to...
left behind
sold
gave away
gradually reduced the size of
Why does the author discuss "prosperity" in line 4?
To indicate that more than one factor contributed to the movement from rural to urban settlement
To support the idea that many families were able to stop farming and migrate to the cities
To suggest that the migration would have happened despite the economic situation
To argue against economics as the primary factor in migration
According to the first paragraph, in the late 1800s, farmland was most likely to be purchased by ...
city businessmen seeking new investments
successful landowners who had mechanized farms
young farm men starting to work
people who had few opportunities in cities
The word "inevitably" in line 12 is closest in meaning to
unexpectedly
usually
unavoidably
possibly
The phrase "this trend" in line 14 refers to
industrial workers becoming farmers
the economic development of the countryside
the loss of rural population
innovations in manufacturing
According to the first paragraph, which of the following is true about the population of the US after the 1880s?
fewer people lived on farms
the central part of the US lost much of its population to rural areas in the West
Rural areas of the West became more populated than those in the central part of the country
Work opportunities in urban areas began to decline
According to the second paragraph, how did migration among young women in the rural West differ from that of young men?
Young women were more likely to leave rural areas to go to urban areas
Young women were more likely to take jobs on farms
Young women who migrated generally had more education
Young women generally moved more frequently from one rural area to another
The word "constricted" in line 24 is closest in meaning to
unappealing
reduced
low-paying
disappearing
