In paragraph 2, the author contrasts the sources of energy used at the start of the Industrial Revolution with those used later mainly to show that ______.

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societies have consistently relied on a balance of renewable and non-renewable energy

technological progress has been closely linked to the exploitation of increasingly concentrated fuels

early industrial societies ignored the potential of fossil fuels until the twentieth century

renewable energy sources remained dominant throughout industrialization

Giải thích

Đáp án đúng: B

Giải thích:

Dựa vào câu: Unlike coal, oil could be refined to manufacture liquid fuels for vehicles; a very important consideration in the early 1900s, when the automobile arrived on the scene. (Không giống như than đá, dầu mỏ có thể được tinh chế để sản xuất nhiên liệu lỏng cho xe cộ; một yếu tố rất quan trọng cần xem xét vào đầu những năm 1900, khi ô tô xuất hiện.)