Read the passage from Charles Dickens’s Hard Times.All the public inscriptions in the town were painted alike, in severe characters of black and white. The jail might have been the infirmary, the infirmary might have been the jail, the town-hall might have been either, or both, or anything else, for anything that appeared to the contrary in the graces of their construction. Fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the material aspect of the town; fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the immaterial.
Answer
A
Industrialization results in pollution.
B
Industrialization results in standardization and monotony.
C
Laborers in the Coketown factory had to work hard.
D
People in Coketown typically volunteered to work long hours.
Explanation
The passage emphasizes that signs and buildings all look alike: the jail could be mistaken for the infirmary or town hall. The repeated phrase “fact, fact, fact” reinforces the town’s uniform, mechanical character. This supports the idea that industrialization results in standardization and monotony, not a claim about pollution or workers’ hours.
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