高考英语阅读训练题题 历史文化

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　　历史文化

高考曾用材料：2012大纲全国卷Ⅱ D篇

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The modern British Empire first took shape in the early 17th century，with the British settlement of the eastern colonies of North America，which would later become the original United States，as well as Canada's Maritime provinces，and the colonizations of the smaller islands of the Caribbean such as Trinidad and Tobago，the Bahamas，Barbados，and Jamaica.

These sugar plantation islands，where slavery became the basis of the economy，were at first Britain's most important and successful American colonies providing tobacco，cotton，and rice in the south and naval material and furs in the north were less financially successful，but had large areas of good agricultural land and attracted far larger numbers of British immigrants.

Britain's American empire was slowly expanded by war and ever growing American colonies pressed westward in search of new agricultural lict arose with the Dutch over trade and empire; First Anglo­Dutch War (1652～1654); Second Anglo­Dutch War (1665～1667); Third Anglo­Dutch War (1672～1674); Britain gained control of New Amsterdam，which was renamed New York，but ceded defeated the French，first expanding their hold over the maritime during the Seven Years War the British defeated the French at the Plains of Abraham and captured all of New France in gave Britain control over almost all of North th Anglo­Dutch War (1780～1784); Anglo­Dutch Treaty of 1814;Anglo­Dutch Treaty of 1824.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century a series of technological advances led to the Industrial ain's position as the world's pre­eminent trader helped fund research and nation was also gifted by some of the world's greatest reserves of coal，the main fuel of the new revolution.

Notes：

①naval adj.海的　②cede vt.放弃　③treaty n.条约

④pre­eminent adj.卓越的;优秀的

长短句分析：The American colonies providing tobacco，cotton，and rice in the south and naval material and furs in the north were less financially successful，but had large areas of good agricultural land and attracted far larger numbers of British immigrants.

句法点睛：本句中，“providing tobacco，cotton，and rice in the south and naval material and furs in the north”为定语，修饰colonies;but连接两个谓语。

句意：美洲的殖民地，南方提供了烟草、棉花、水稻，北方提供了海产品和皮毛，这从经济上不是很成功，但是肥沃的农业用地吸引了大量的英国移民。

【语篇解读】 现代大不列颠帝国的雏形开始于17世纪，当时英国占领了现在美国、加拿大临海的一些省份以及北美一些岛屿国家的地方。英国进行了残酷的殖民统治，从当地人手中夺取了大量的土地。南方为英国人提供烟草、棉花和水稻，而北方则提供大量的优质农业用地。经过多年的战争，英国人从法国人手中夺取了土地，并与当地人签署协议，成为合法的土地使用者。这里的煤炭为18世纪晚期和19世纪早期的工业革命提供了能源保证。

e did the British first settle when they first came to America in the 17th century?

the United States.

only the United States but also parts of other countries.

whole of Canada.

l islands.

答案　B　[细节理解题。由“the original United States，as well as Canada's Maritime provinces，and the colonizations of the smaller islands of the Caribbean such as Trinidad and Tobago，the Bahamas，Barbados，and Jamaica”可知，当时英国占领的不仅仅是美国，还占领了加拿大的临海省份，以及一些岛屿国家。]

rding to the passage what in America made the British interested most?

cco，cotton，and rice.

l material and furs.

C.A great deal of good farmland.

sts.

答案　C　[联系第二段中的“naval material and furs in the north were less financially successful，but had large areas of good agricultural land and attracted far larger numbers of British immigrants”可知，英国移民看上的不是海产品和皮毛，而是大量的肥沃土地。]

does the underlined word “pressed” mean in the third paragraph?

hed. ed. ished. nded.

答案　D　[词义猜测题。联系“westward in search of new agricultural lands”可知，这些殖民者向西扩张以寻求更多的土地，因此D项最合适。]

many years was it from the first war with Anglo to the end of the last war in history?