专题19 人文历史 -备战2022高考英语完形填空话题分类训练（高考真题+各地模拟题）

完形填空之人文历史专项 Passage 1 （2021·湖南·长沙一中模拟预测） Did Tea and Beer Bring About Industrialization? Professor Macfarlane has spent decades trying to understand the mystery of the Industrial Revolution. Why did it happen in Britain at the end of the 18th century? Macfarlane compares the question as a puzzle. He 1 that there were about 20 different factors and all of them needed to be present before the revolution could happen. The chief 2 can be found in history textbooks. For industry to 3 , there needed to be the technology and power to drive factories, large urban populations to provide cheap labor, a 4 economy, and a political system that allowed this to happen. All these factors must have been necessary but not sufficient to cause the revolution. Most historians, however, are 5 that one or two missing factors are needed to solve the puzzle. The missing factors, Macfarlane supposes, are tea and beer. Historians had noticed one interesting factor around the mid-18t