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　　郁金香在北美殖民地的发展

　　Tulips are Old World, rather than New World, plants, with the origins of the species lying in Central Asia. They became an integral part of the gardens of the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth century onward, and, soon after, part of European life as well. Holland, in particular, became famous for its cultivation of the flower.

　　A tenuous line marked the advance of the tulip to the New World, where it was unknown in the wild. The first Dutch colonies in North America had been established in New Netherlands by the Dutch West India Company in 1624, and one individual who settled in New Amsterdam (today's Manhattan section of New York City) in 1642 described the flowers that bravely colonized the settlers' gardens. They were the same flowers seen in Dutch still-life paintings of the time: crown imperials, roses, carnations, and of course tulips. They flourished in Pennsylvania too, where in 1698 William Penn received a report of John Tateham's "Great and Stately Palace," its garden full of tulips. By 1760, Boston newspapers were advertising 50 different kinds of mixed tulip "roots." But the length of the journey between Europe and North America created many difficulties. Thomas Hancock, an English settler, wrote thanking his plant supplier for a gift of some tulip bulbs from England, but his letter the following year grumbled that they were all dead.

　　Tulips arrived in Holland, Michigan, with a later wave of early nineteenth-century Dutch immigrants who quickly colonized the plains of Michigan. Together with many other Dutch settlements, such as the one at Pella, Iowa, they established a regular demand for European plants. The demand was bravely met by a new kind of tulip entrepreneur, the traveling salesperson. One Dutchman, Hendrick van der Schoot, spent six months in 1849 traveling through the United States taking orders for tulip bulbs. While tulip bulbs were traveling from Europe to the United States to satisfy the nostalgic longings of homesick English and Dutch settlers, North American plants were traveling in the opposite direction. In England, the enthusiasm for American plants was one reason why tulips dropped out of fashion in the gardens of the rich and famous.

　　1. Which of the following questions does the passage mainly answer?

　　(A) What is the difference between an Old World and a New World plant?

　　(B) Why are tulips grown in many different parts of the world?

　　(C) How did tulips become popular in North America?

　　(D) Where were the first Dutch colonies in North America located?

　　2. The word "integral" in line 2 is closest in meaning to

　　(A) interesting

　　(B) fundamental

　　(C) ornamental

　　(D) overlooked

　　3. The passage mentions that tulips were first found in which of the following regions?

　　(A) Central Asia

　　(B) Western Europe

　　(C) India

　　(D) North America

　　4. The word "flourished" in line 11 is closest in meaning to

　　(A) were discovered

　　(B) were marketed

　　(C) combined

　　(D) thrived

　　5. The author mentions tulip growing in New Netherlands, Pennsylvania. and Michigan in order to illustrate how

　　(A) imported tulips were considered more valuable than locally grown tulips

　　(B) tulips were commonly passed as gifts from one family to another

　　(C) tulips grew progressively more popular in North America

　　(D) attitudes toward tulips varied from one location to another

　　6. The word "grumbled" in line 16 is closest in meaning to

　　(A) denied

　　(B) warned

　　(C) complained

　　(D) explained

　　7. The passage mentions that one reason English and Dutch settlers planted tulips in their gardens was that tulips

　　(A) were easy to grow

　　(B) had become readily available

　　(C) made them appear fashionable

　　(D) reminded them of home

　　8. The word "they" in line 20 refers to

　　(A) tulips

　　(B) plains

　　(C) immigrants

　　(D) plants

　　9. According to the passage , which of the following changes occurred in English gardens during the European settlement of North America?

　　(A) They grew in size in order to provide enough plants to export to the New World.

　　(B) They contained a wider variety of tulips than ever before.

　　(C) They contained many new types of North American plants.

　　(D) They decreased in size on the estates of wealthy people.

　　10. The passage mentions which of the following as a problem associated with the importation of tulips into North America?

　　(A) They were no longer fashionable by the time they arrived.

　　(B) They often failed to survive the journey.

　　(C) Orders often took six months or longer to fill.

　　(D) Settlers knew little about how to cultivate them.

　　答案：CBADC CDCCB

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