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Practice Listening: Select Missing Word ID: #41092 Short The Machine Age
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You will see a video about the Industrial Revolution and its impact on society. At the end of the recording the last word or group of words has been replaced by a beep. Select the correct option to complete the recording.

Transcript:

During the 19th century, the industrial revolution brought social upheaval and technological progress that transformed agrarian life in Europe, Asia, and North America. Steam-driven machinery, the railroad, the internal combustion engine, and the harnessing of electricity powered the modern Industrial Age, a new economic order. Capitalism took root; factories and coal mines employed millions. Novelist Charles Dickens and others portrayed the new urban life in bleak terms. The German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels predicted an inevitable workers' uprising in their Communist Manifesto. In the United States, economic and social friction between the industrial north and the agrarian South sparked a bloody Civil War, while across the Pacific, in a few short decades, Japan transformed itself from a closed feudal society into (an industrialized world power).
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Option 3: "an industrialised world power"

Explanation: This option is correct because the text explicitly states that Japan transformed itself into 'an industrialized world power.' This phrase captures the essence of Japan's rapid development during the industrial revolution, aligning perfectly with the context provided.

Option 1: "a technological stagnation"

Explanation: This option is incorrect because the text discusses the technological progress brought by the industrial revolution, not stagnation. The phrase 'technological progress' directly contradicts the idea of stagnation, making this option logically inconsistent with the text.

Option 2: "a colonial empire"

Explanation: This option is incorrect as the text does not mention the establishment of a colonial empire in relation to Japan's transformation. Instead, it focuses on Japan becoming an industrialized world power, which is a different concept. Thus, this option does not align with the main idea presented.

Option 4: "a global shipping hub"

Explanation: This option is incorrect as the text does not refer to Japan becoming a global shipping hub. While Japan's industrialization may have contributed to its shipping capabilities, the text specifically highlights its transformation into an industrialized world power, making this option too narrow and not representative of the main idea.

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