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In an essay entitled “Making It in America”, the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, a man and a dog. The man is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.

1. The joke in Paragraph 1 is used to illustrate_______.

  • Athe impact of technological advances
  • Bthe alleviation of job pressure
  • Cthe shrinkage of textile mills
  • Dthe decline of middle-class incomes

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