专四专八考试

【单选题】 The author of the passage states that Bailyn failed to ______.
A．give sufficient emphasis to the cultural and political interdependence of the colonies and England
B．take advantage of social research on the experiences of colonists who migrated to colonial North America specifically to acquire land
C．relate the experience of the migrants to the political values that eventually shaped the character of the United States
D．investigate the lives of Europeans before they came to colonial North America to determine more adequately their motivations for migrating

网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
该题问：本文作者指出，Bailyn的一个失误是没做到什么？A项意为“对英国和殖民地之间的文化、政治联系给以强调”。而这点Bailyn作出了强调。在本文的第四段可以找到线索：He is undoubtedly correct to insist that the colonies were part of an Anglo-American empire意为“在坚持殖民地是盎格鲁-美利坚帝国的一部分这一点上，他无疑是正确的”。B项意为“对于想获得土地‘那一部分人的经验的调查’”，文中作者没有指出。C项意为“把移民经历和最终确定美国特点的一些政治意识联系起来”。在本文的最后一段可以找到线索：he fails to link their experience with the political development of the United States意为“他没能把这些人的经历与美国的政治发展结合起来”。因此可判定C项为正确选项。D项意为“调查移民们从前在欧洲的生活，以确定其移民动机”。这点Bailyn做过他的第一个理论成果即为此项内容，可在本文的第二段中找到线索：The first of these asserts that residents of early modern England moved to the New Word was simply a "natural spillover". Although at first the colonies held little positive attraction for the English --they would rather have stayed home—by the eighteenth century people increasingly migrated to America because they regarded it as the land of opportunity意为“第一点断言，近代早期的英国居民经常在乡下流动，因此后来他们迁移到新大陆仅仅是一种‘自然外流’。“虽然最初殖民地对英国人没有多少正面的透惑力——他们宁愿留在本土。到18世纪时，移往美洲的人数却增加了，因为他们将那儿看作是充满机遇的地方”。 查看试题解析出处>>