Tham khảo tài liệu 'our life is better than it was for ourforefathers?', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng nghe tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Our life is better than it was for our forefathers Do you think our life is better than it was for our forefathers To answer this question we had better go back the period of the middle of the 18th century. It is the period before the great changes that have been done to shape the world as it is today. Let us see what life was for our forefathers in those days. To get a picture of their lives we must cut out many of the things which are so familiar and necessary to us today. We wonder how men could ever have got on without them. Take travel for instance. In the time of our forefathers there were no railways or steamships or aeroplanes no bicycles or motor-cars or even no good roads. They traveled slowly on horseback or in carts and carriages and sailing ships. There was no postal system so letters were rare and costly luxuries no telegraph no telephone no wireless or broadcasting. Nearly all goods were hand-made as there was no steam-driven machinery to manufacture multitudes of cheap goods. Houses were lit by candles for there was no electric light. Of medical science there was little and public sanitation was unknown. In consequence dirt and disease were rife in village and town. There were no fully equipped hospitals no trained nurses but few qualified doctors. Most of the poor could neither read nor write for education was the privilege of the rich. Books were few and expensive. As to amusements there were no cinemas .
