問題詳情
Questions 30-39The first Europeans in the Delaware Valley, a region located near die Atlantic Coastof North America, were Scandinavians. They came to the short-lived colony known asNew Sweden, founded in 1638, Loose organization and local autonomy fostered a culturalLine fusion between native and settler cultures that proved one of the most notable—and least5 understood—developments of early North American history. The Native Americans wereboth fanners and hunters; Native American women farmed gardens of corn, beans, andsquash, while Native American men hunted for furs, hides, and meat. Such a genderdivision of labor was much like that practiced by Scandinavian settlers. In the harshenvironment of northern Europe, Scandinavian women had been accustomed to practicing10 forms of shifting cultivation, and they immediately understood Native Americanhorticulture. Colonial women of the Delaware valley quickly adopted the crops of theNative American women, while Native American women welcomed European tools, suchas metal hoes, and farm animals, such as pigs and chickens.Similarly, Scandinavian men quickly adapted to hunting in North America, In France15 and England, unlike Scandinavia, hunting had been long reserved for the nobility, andso few French and English settlers had much experience in handling firearms orunderstanding the patterns of game animals. But Scandinavian men were familiar withhunting and receptive to learning the hunting methods of the local Native Americans.In turn Native Americans readily incorporated European steel knives, firearms, and linen20 hunting shirts into their hunting routines.The most common symbol of pioneer North America, the log cabin, emerged in theDelaware Valley, and ought to serve as a symbol of this composite culture. Constructionwith logs was a tradition brought to North America by Finnish settlers of New Sweden,It was quickly picked up by other settlers, for with the resources of the American woods,25 a few tools, and a little training, several men could erect a rough shelter in a day, or a solidhouse in a week, What is truly fascinating is that Native Americans quickly learned theseconstruction techniques and probably did as much as colonists to spread the practice of logconstruction across the frontiers of colonial North America.
【題組】30. Which one of the following questions does the passage answer?
(A) What role did Native American men play in teaching their agricultural methods to Scandinavian settlers?
(B) How did the interaction between Native Americans and Scandinavian settlers benefit both groups?
(C) What hardships did the Scandinavian women settlers experience in North America?
(D) What caused a rivalry between the English and Scandinavian settlers in North America?
參考答案
答案：B
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統計：A(2),B(41),C(6),D(5),E(0)