『新东方在线托福听力』为托福考生准备了ETS托福TPO/【学术讲座】#2听力练习：What does the speaker mainly discuss?原文题目答案解析，TPO/【学术讲座】#2听力原文范文音频翻译。

托福TPO/【学术讲座】#2听力原文What does the speaker mainly discuss?【新东方在线】

What is true of mail delivery in the early nineteenth century?

According to the speaker, what problem did farmers face with early mail service?

How did many city residents reach when farmers first requested mail delivery?

Listen to part of a lecture in a United States history class.In the days before telephones, radio, and television, the only network of public communication that could reach farmers was the mail. But this wasn’t the mail as we know it today. At that time, in the early nineteenth century, mail delivery was uneven and widely scattered. In fact, many people living in rural areas got no mail at all. In the early decades of the century, mail carriers were privately employed – they did not work for the government. Many years later, when the government finally took charge of delivering mail, it was mostly in cities that mail got delivered to people’s homes. So farmers still had a problem – they had to go to a post office to collect their mail, which, by the way, wasn’t always nearby. Farmers’ requests to have mail brought to their homes were at first met with outrage. What could be more ridiculous, many urban residents asked, than paying government employees to travel miles across the countryside with an occasional letter? Nevertheless, farmers’ organizations succeeded in convincing the United States Congress that farmers needed mail delivery. Finally in 1891 rural free delivery, known as RFD, came into being.In a sense, rural free delivery was the most important communications revolution in United States history. Rural Americans were not lifted out of the relatively isolated communities they lived in. Because of rural free delivery, there now ran a highway to the world from every farmer’s doorstep.

Listen to part of a lecture in a United States history class.

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