2011年考研英語備考：英語閱讀專項特訓(2)[3]

[C] Boston.

　　[D] Charleston.

　　9. The word “predecessors” (Line 1, Para. 4) refer to .

　　[A] colonists who arrived in North America in the seventeenth century.

　　[B] houses constructed before the eighteenth�瞔entury.

　　[C] interior improvements.

　　[D] wooden houses in Charleston.

　　10. What does the author imply about the use of wallpaper before 1730?

　　[A] Wallpaper samples appeared in the architectural manuals.

　　[B] Wallpaper was the same color as the paints used.

　　[C] Patterned wallpaper was not widely used.

　　[D] Wallpaper was not in stone houses.

　　核心詞匯

　　architecture n. 建筑學，建筑術;建筑風格，建筑式樣

　　amateur a. 業余的, 非職業的;外行的n. 業余愛好者;外行, 生手

　　impetus n. 推動, 促進, 刺激;推動力

　　elaborate vi. 詳盡說明vt. 詳細制定a. 復雜的;精心制作的

　　難句剖析

　　1. Since architecture was not yet a specialized profession in the colonies, the design of buildings was life either to amateur designers or to carpenters who undertook to interpret architectural manuals imported from England.

　　【解析】 句子主干是the design of buildings was life either to amateur designers or to carpenters。since引導的是原因狀語從句。who undertook to interpret architectural manuals imported from England作amateur designers or carpenters的定語。

　　【譯文】 由于建筑在殖民地還不是一項專門的職業，房屋設計或者由業余設計者來做，或者由那些承擔對從英國進口的建筑手冊的翻譯任務的木匠來做。

　　2. Increasing wealth and growing sophistication throughout the colonies resulted in houses of improved design, whether