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Questions 9-19The principal difference between urban growth in Europe and in the Americancolonies was the slow evolution of cities in the former and their rapid growth in the latter.In Europe they grew over a period of centuries from town economies to their present](Line) urban structure. In North America, they started as wilderness communities and developed(5) to mature urbanism’s in little more than a century.In the early colonial day in North America, small cities sprang up along the AtlanticCoastline, mostly in what are now New America, small cities sprang up along the AtlanticUnited States and in the lower Saint Lawrence valley in Canada. This was naturalbecause these areas were nearest England and France, particularly England, from which(10 ) most capital goods (assets such as equipment) and many consumer goods were importedMerchandising establishments were, accordingly, advantageously located in port citiesfrom which goods could be readily distributed to interior settlements. Here, too, were thefavored locations for processing raw materials prior to export. Boston, Philadelphia, NewYork, Montreal, and other cities flourished, and, as the colonies grew, these cities(15) increased in importance.This was less true in the colonial South, where life centered around large farms, knownas plantations, rather than around towns, as was the case in the areas further north alongthe Atlantic coastline. The local isolation and the economic self-sufficiency of theplantations were antagonistic to the development of the towns. The plantationsmaintained their independence because they were located on navigable streams and eachhad a wharf accessible to the small shipping of that day. In face, one of the strongestfactors in the selection of plantation land was the desire to have it front on a waterhighway.When the United States became an independent nation in 1776, it did not have a singlecity as large as 50,000 inhabitants, but by 1820 it had a city of more than 10,000 people,and by 1880 it had recorded a city of over one million. It was not until after 1823, afterthe mechanization of the spinning had weaving industries, that cities started drawingyoung people away from farms. Such migration was particularly rapid following the CivilWar (1861-1865).
9. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) Factors that slowed the growth of cities inEurope.
(B) The evolution of cities in North America
(C) Trade between North American andEuropean cities
(D)The effects of the United Sates’independence on urban growth in NewEngland.

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答案：B
難度：適中0.666667
統計：A(0),B(2),C(1),D(0),E(0)

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