【实例解析】托福阅读十大题型之事实信息题例题详解（七）

托福阅读题型中事实信息题是根据文中明确出现的事实细节等，选择选项中与之相近的同义改写选项。在之前的很多文章中，我们都曾经提到过关于这一类型文章的解答方法。那么，下面我们现在就为大家带来托福阅读事实信息题的实例题目，希望能为大家的备考带来帮助。

例题7：

Paragraph 7: By 1800 more than a thousand steam engines were in use in the British Isles, and Britain retained a virtual monopoly on steam engine production until the 1830s. Steam power did not merely spin cotton and roll iron; early in the new century it also multiplied ten times over the amount of paper that a single worker could produce in a day. At the same time, operators of the first printing presses run by steam rather than by hand found it possible to produce a thousand pages in an hour rather than thirty. Steam also promised to eliminate a transportation problem not fully solved by either canal boats and turnpikes.Boats could carry heavy weights, but canals could not cross hilly terrain; turnpikes could cross the hills, but the roadbeds could not stand up under great weights. These problems needed still another solution, and the ingredients for it lay close at hand. In some industrial regions, heavily laden wagons, with flanged wheels, were being hauled by horses along metal rails; and the stationary steam engine was puffing in the factory and mine.Another generation passed; before Inventors succeeded in combining these ingredients by putting the engine on wheels and the wheels on the rails, so as to provide a machine to take the place of the horse. Thus the railroad age sprang from what had already happened in the eighteenth century.

According to paragraph 7, which of the following statements about steam engines is true?

They were used for the production of paper but not for printing

By 1800, significant numbers of them were produced outside of Britain

They were used in factories before they were used to power trains

They were used in the construction of canals and turnpikes

托福阅读事实信息题练习题答案：3