【尚友制造】OG12阅读点评六至十.pdf

wwwwww..sshhaarreewwiitthhuu..ccoomm OG12 6~10 OG12 6~10 【尚友制造】OOGG1122 阅读点评66~~1100 提示：文中题目前面的背景色，对应该题目在文章中涉及的内容。其中背景色中的红色字 体为解题关键字。题目中的蓝色背景色为解析题目的重点词语。 Passage 6 In the two decades between 1910 and 1930, over ten percent to the Black population of the United States left the South, where the preponderance of the Black population had been located, and migrated to northern (5) states, with the largest number moving, it is claimed, between 1916 and 1918. It has been frequently assumed, but not proved, that the majority of the migrants in what has come to be called the Great Migration came from rural areas and were motivated by two concurrent (10) factors: the collapse of the cotton industry following the boll weevil infestation, which began in 1898, and increased demand in the North for labor following the cessation of European immigration caused by the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. This assump- (15) tion has led to the conclusion that the migrants’ subse- quent lack of economic mobility in the North is tied to rural background, a background that implies unfamil- iarity with urban living and a lack of industrial skills. But the question of who actually left the South has (20) never been rigorously investigated. Although numerous investigations document(v.) an exodus from rural southern areas to southern cities prior to the Great Migration. no one has considered whether the same migrants then moved on to northern cities. In 1910 over 600,000 (25) Black workers, or ten percent of the Black work force, reported themselves to be