答案部分
14-20 listof headings
14. ii
【原文参考依据--B段首句】To bolster Canada’s population and agriculturaloutput, the federal government took steps to secure western land. 题干的“safeguard”替代了原文的“secure”。
15. iv
【原文参考依据--C段倒五行】Settling the West also madeimperative thebuilding of a transcontinental railway. 题干的“infrastructure(公共建设、基础设施)”替代了原文的“transcontinental(横贯大陆的) railway”。
16. x
【原文参考依据--D段首句及第五行】Winnipeg became themetropolis of the West during this period. ...... This decision culminated in aland boom between 1881 and 1883 which resulted in the transformation of hamletslike Portage la Prairie and Brandon into towns......
17. vi
【原文参考依据--E段首句】The majority of settlers toWinnipeg, and the surrounding countryside, during this early period wereprimarily ProtestantEnglish-speaking settlers from Ontario and the BritishIsles. 由于原文第五行“ThisBritish-Ontarian ethnic homogeneity, however, did not last very long”明确指出British-Ontarian并未存在很久,因此v答案不正确。
18. i
【原文参考依据--F段首句】Not all of the settlers who cameto western Canada in the 1880s, however desired to remain there.
19. vii
【原文参考依据--G段倒七行】These same social reformersbelieved that rural living, in stark contrast to urban, would lead to ahealthy, moral, and charitable way of life.
20. xii
【原文参考依据--H段】整个H段都在描写政府为吸引移民而做的各种广告。
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21.Homesteads
【原文参考依据--A段第三行】Western rural settlement wasdesired, as it would provide homesteads for the sons and daughters of easternfarmers, as eastern agricultural land filled to capacity. 题干的“supply”替代了原文的“provide”。
22.Agricultural output 23. wheat
【原文参考依据--A段倒六行】As well, eastern farmers andpoliticians viewed western Canada, with its broad expanses of unpopulated land,as a prime location for expanding Canada’s agricultural output, especially in terms of wheat production toserve the markets of eastern Canada. 题干的“increase”替代了原文的“expanding”;“according to”替代了“in terms of”。
24. Company
【原文参考依据--B段第三行】The Dominion of CanadapurchasedRupert’s Land fromthe Hudson’s Bay Companyin 1870. 题干的“government”替代了原文的“Dominion(统治者、自治领)”;“bought”替代了“purchased”。
25. PoliceForce
【原文参考依据--B段第八行】The Canadian government alsocreated aMounted Police Force in 1873.
26.Transcontinental railway
【原文参考依据--C段第一二句】The surest way to protectCanadian territory, and to achieve the secondary goal of joining BritishColumbia to the rest of the country, was to import large numbers of EasternCanadian and British settlers. Settling the West also made imperative thebuilding of a transcontinental railway. 题干的“the best way”替代了原文的“the surest way”。