問題詳情

(35-38)Colonial life, especially in the first half of the eighteenthcentury in America, was hierarchically structured, 35 .Power was in the hands of the dominant white men, typicallythose educated, and, 36 , those educated and engaged incity or colonial government. The abundance of the literaturefrom this era might lead readers falsely to conclude that mostBritish Americans could both read and write. Yetmost—almost all blacks, half the white women, and one-fifththe white men — 37 . Colonial culture was — at least inthe first half of the eighteenth century, before the marketeconomy started to develop and printing presses became fullyestablished — an oral culture, one that depended upon theperson-to-person transmission of information.By mid-century, this situation began to shift. The newerelite culture, made up of merchants and tradesmen in citiesand northern farmers and southern rural plantation-holders,was oriented toward the printed medium, toward individualrather than communal accomplishment, and toward the city.Literacy, less essential in a rurally based and orallyestablished society like that of early eighteenth-centuryAmerica, 38 . Parents who held property wanted todistinguish themselves from their neighbors, so they sent theirmale children to study, usually with the local minister, inpreparation for collegiate training in one of the newly foundeduniversities — schools now known as the College of Williamand Mary.
35.
(A) became a sign of status and thus an accomplishment
(B) men over women, and whites over blacks and NativeAmericans
(C) could do neither
(D) as the century wore on

參考答案

答案：B
難度：適中0.642857
統計：A(6),B(27),C(0),D(6),E(0)

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