▶ Your Answer :
In this set of materials, both the reading passage and the lecturer deal with the issue that industrial revolution makes the quality of life more comfortable than before. Regarding the issue, the lecturer contradicts the three reasons that the writer suggests.
First, according to the lecturer, employers worked in highly poor working condition. To be specific, while women and young people worked for long hours, they got too little money.
This point refutes the writer’s claim that poor people could have good job thanks to mechanization.
Second, the lecturer goes on to say that the miner’s health is not always improved.
The lecturer explains that they not only worked in terrible and danger condition, but also have a respiratory disease called hypothermia due to air pollution.
This runs counter to the reading passage’s assertion that as the number of mining rate improved, the miner’s health was developed.
Finally, the lecturer mentions that most of family businesses could not compete with large groups.
The lecturer suggests that rural people had to move cities, but there are only toilsome jobs in the cities. This casts doubt on the writer’s claim that the agricultural improvement makes rural people to get out from hard works. |