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Questions 46-50Feather cloaks are the most spectacular of all objects of native Hawaiian manufacture. In thehighly stratified society of the islands before their discovery by Captain James Cook in 1788, thecloaks were visual symbols of power and prestige, worn only by ranking male chiefs on stateoccasions and in battle. They were never very numerous, but powerful chiefs often acquiredseveral through inheritance or as battle prizes.Although the feathers were gathered by the common people to defray part of their taxes andwomen were permitted to clean and sort them, only men of high rank, surrounded by sacredtaboos, were allowed to make the cloaks. The manufacturing process involved tying smallbunches of red, yellow, green, or black feathers with olona fiber. Large cloaks like the royal robeworn by Kamehameha I, the first king of all the islands, required some half-million feathers.Today these cloaks are ethnological treasures, but to the early ship captain they were littlemore than seemingly plentiful curiosities that the Hawaiians highly valued but gave away ortraded for such trifles as iron knives. In turn, the Europeans traded these curiosities. This practicebegan with Cook’s officers, who traded the cloak in Leningrad in exchange for provisions.In 1825, Lord Byron, commander of the British ship Blonde, predicted that “the splendidwar-cloak” would soon be more easily found in Europe than in Hawaii. Brigham found only fivein Hawaii when he made his featherwork survey in 1899. Today twenty of the fifty known cloaksare still in the British Isles.
46.The early ship captains who visited Hawaii were _______.
(A) aware of the historical and cultural significance of the feather cloaks
(B) convinced of the usefulness of the feather cloaks
(C) inclined to overestimate the availability of the feather cloaks
(D) curious about what the native thought of the feather cloaks

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答案：C
難度：困難0.366864
統計：A(37),B(24),C(62),D(46),E(0)

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