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《11017年10月托福考试阅读理解全真试题》
Question 1-ld in Baltimore, at a hotel
that was then reputed to be the best in the country. The
presence in Baltimore of Barnum s City Hotel, a six-story building with two hundred apartments helps explain why many other
early national political conventions were held there.
In the longer run, too. American hotels made other national conventions not only possible but pleasant and convivial.
The growing custom of regularly assembling from afar the representatives of all kinds of groups - not only for political conventions,
but also for commercial, professional, learned, and
avocational ones - in turn supported the multiplying hotels. By mid-twentieth century, conventions accounted for over a third
of the yearly room occupancy of all hotels in the nation, about eighteen thousand different conventions were held annually
with a total attendance of about ten million persons.

Nineteenth-century American hotelkeepers, who were no
托福真题：《11017年10月托福考试阅读理解全真试题》-托福真题
《11017年10月托福考试阅读理解全真试题》
Question 1-7
Hotels were among the earliest facilities that bound the
United States together. They were both creatures and creators
o