2014年高三英语8月份百题精练2.docVIP

2014年月份百题精练（） 英语试题 Robert Owen was born in Wales in 1771．At the age of ten he went to work．His employer had a large private library so Owen was able to educate himself．He read a lot in his spare time and at nineteen he was given the job of superintendent（at a Manchester cotton mill．He was so successful there that he persuaded his employer to buy the New Lanark mill in Scotland． When he arrived at New Lanark, it was a dirty little town with a population of 2, 000 people．Nobody paid any attention to the workers houses or their childrens education．The conditions in the factories were very bad．The