19 According to the passage, which of the following statements in NOT true?
(A) There were no poor people in England.
(B) In the period England was the strongest country in the world.
(C) The new technological inventions made England rich.
(D) Victorian England colonized many other countries in the globe.

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統計： A(144), B(17), C(19), D(5), E(0) #1152629

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In the eighteenth century the pivotal關鍵性 city of Western civilization文明 had been Paris; by the second half of the nineteenth century this center of influence had shifted to London, a city that expanded擴張 from above two million inhabitants居民 when Victoria came to the throne王座 to six and half million at the time of her death.
The rapid growth of London is one of the many indications標示 of the most important development of the age: the shift from a way of life based on the ownership of land to a modern urban economy based on trade and manufacturing.
“We have been living, as it were, the life of three hundred years in thirty” was the impression formed by Dr. Thomas Arnold during the early stages of England’s industrialization.
By the end of the century – after the resources of steam power had been more fully exploited開發 for fast railways and iron ships, for looms出現, printing presses印刷機, and farmer’s combines, and after the introduction of telegraph電報, intercontinental洲際 cable, photography, anesthetics麻醉劑, and universal compulsory必修 education – a late Victorian英國歷史維多利亞女王時代 could look back with astonishment驚訝 on these developments during his or her lifetime. 
Because England was the first country to become industrialized, its transformation was an especially painful one: it experienced a host of social and economic problems consequent to rapid and unregulated industrialization.
England also experienced an enormous龐大 increase in wealth. An early start enabled England to capture markets all over the globe.
Cotton and other manufactured products were exported in English ships, a merchant商人 fleet船隻 whose size was without parallel類似 in other countries.
The profits gained from trade also led to extensive廣闊 capital investments投資 in all continents洲.
After England became the world’s workshop, London became, from 1870 on, the world’s banker.
England gained particular特殊 profit from the development of its own colonies, which, by 1890, comprised包括 more than a quarter of all the territory領土 on the surface of the earth; one in four people was a subject of Queen Victoria.
By the end of the century England was the world’s foremost最重要 imperial帝國 power. 
Although many Victorians shared a sense of satisfication in the industrial and political preeminence傑出 of England during the period, they also suffered from an anxious sense of something lost, a sense too of being displaced persons離鄉背井者 in a world made alien異族 by technological changes that had been exploited too quickly for the adaptive powers of the human psyche精神.
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