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【单选题】 According to the author, in which decade of the nineteenth century did a steamship first attempt to compete with the transatlantic packets
A．The twenties.
B．The thirties.
C．The forties.
D．The fifties.

网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
本题为细节推断题。文章最后提到“No wonder that steamships, the first of which tried to compete with the packets in 1838…”可知首次想要和它竞争是在 30 年代。 查看试题解析出处>>