問題詳情
Questions 10-17From their inception, most rural neighborhoods in colonial North America includedat least one carpenter, joiner, sawyer, and cooper in woodworking; a weaver and a tailorfor clothing production; a tanner, currier, and cordwainer (shoemaker) for fabricating leatherobjects; and a blacksmith for metalwork, Where stone was the local building material, a5)mason was sure to appear on the list of people who paid taxes. With only an apprentice asan assistant, the rural artisan provided the neighborhood with common goods from furnitureto shoes to farm equipment in exchange for cash or for “goods in kind” from the customer’sfield, pasture, or dairy. Sometimes artisans transformed material provided by the customerwove cloth of yam spun at the farm from the wool of the family sheep; made chairs or tables10)from wood cut in the customer’s own woodlot; produced shoes or leather breeches fromcow, deer, or sheepskin tanned on the farm.Like their farming neighbors, rural artisans were part of an economy seen, by onehistorian, as “an orchestra conducted by nature.” Some tasks could not be done in the winter,other had to be put off during harvest time, and still others waited on raw materials that were15)only produced seasonally. As the days grew shorter, shop hours kept pace, since few artisanscould afford enough artificial light to continue work when the Sun went down. To the bestof their ability, colonial artisans tried to keep their shops as efficient as possible and toregularize their schedules and methods of production for the best return on their investmentin time, tools, and materials, While it is pleasant to imagine a woodworker, for example,20)carefully matching lumber, joining a chest together without resort to nails or glue, andapplying all thought and energy to carving beautiful designs on the finished piece, the timerequired was not justified unless the customer was willing to pay extra for the quality—and few in rural areas were, Artisans, therefore, often found it necessary to employ asmany shortcuts and economics as possible while still producing satisfactory products.
【題組】10. What aspect of rural colonial North America does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) Farming practices
(B) The work of artisans
(C) The character of rural neighborhoods
(D) Types of furniture that were popular
參考答案
答案：B
難度：簡單0.8
統計：A(0),B(4),C(1),D(0),E(0)