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大學聯考曾用材料：2012大綱全國卷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.放棄　③treaty n.條約

④pre­eminent adj.卓越的;優秀的

長短句分析：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.

句法點睛：本句中，“providing tobacco，cotton，and rice in the south and naval material and furs in the north”為定語，修飾colonies;but連接兩個謂語。

句意：美洲的殖民地，南方提供了煙草、棉花、水稻，北方提供了海產品和皮毛，這從經濟上不是很成功，但是肥沃的農業用地吸引了大量的英國移民。

【語篇解讀】 現代大不列顛帝國的雛形開始於17世紀，當時英國佔領了現在美國、加拿大臨海的一些省份以及北美一些島嶼國家的地方。英國進行了殘酷的殖民統治，從當地人手中奪取了大量的土地。南方為英國人提供煙草、棉花和水稻，而北方則提供大量的優質農業用地。經過多年的戰爭，英國人從法國人手中奪取了土地，並與當地人簽署協議，成為合法的土地使用者。這裏的煤炭為18世紀晚期和19世紀早期的工業革命提供了能源保證。

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　[細節理解題。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，當時英國佔領的不僅僅是美國，還佔領了加拿大的臨海省份，以及一些島嶼國家。]

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　[聯繫第二段中的“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，英國移民看上的不是海產品和皮毛，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　[詞義猜測題。聯繫“westward in search of new agricultural lands”可知，這些殖民者向西擴張以尋求更多的土地，因此D項最合適。]

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