081. These writers, who can genuinely be said to have created a genre, the "railroad novel," are now mostly forgotten, their names having faded from memory.
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082. The engine that became standard on western steamboats was of a different and novel design. It was the work primarily of an unsung hero of American industrial progress, Oliver Evans (1755-1819) .
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2 U9 `9 C5 b9 I083. The self-educated son of a Delaware farmer, Evans early became obsessed by the possibilities of mechanized production and steam power. As early as 1802 he was using a stationary steam engine of high-pressure design in his mill. Engines of this type were not unknown, but before Evans they were generally considered impractical and dangerous.
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(C) locomotive
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! q! Y/ ~0 u3 ^084. In shallow western rivers the weight of vessel and engine was important; a heavy engine added to the problem of navigation.+ S8 G. ]0 [5 B' R& q4 N
The word "vessel" is closest in meaning to which of following?
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(D) craft
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8 y$ r; F9 @5 v% z, p: g& @6 S, N085. The key concepts emerged about 1957. Townes and Arthur Schawlow, then at Bell Telephone Laboratories, wrote a long paper outlining the conditions needed to amplify stimulated emission of visible light waves.
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(C) succeeded# V* e* P% u* ~- k
(D) appeared
/ R; P5 ^ k) O! x/ M$ R8 x# M$ iThe word "outlining" is closest in meaning to which of following?
4 Y% R* I0 W' V9 e" ?(A) assigning" p* J; {2 J6 J% _& d
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081 B
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