Reading Comprehension
试题详情
文章：
| Line | Exactly when in the early modern era Native |
| Americans began exchanging animal furs with | |
| Europeans for European-made goods is uncertain. | |
| What is fairly certain, even though they left | |
| (5) | no written evidence of having done so, is that |
| the first Europeans to conduct such trade during | |
| the modern period were fishing crews working the | |
| waters around Newfoundland. Archaeologists had | |
| noticed that sixteenth-century Native American | |
| (10) | sites were strewn with iron bolts and metal |
| pins. Only later, upon reading Nicolas Denys’s | |
| 1672 account of seventeenth-century European | |
| settlements in North America, did archaeologists | |
| realize that sixteenth-century European fishing | |
| (15) | crews had dismantled and exchanged parts of their |
| ships for furs. | |
| By the time Europeans sailing the Atlantic coast | |
| of North America first documented the fur trade, it | |
| was apparently well underway. The first to record | |
| (20) | such trade—the captain of a Portuguese vessel |
| sailing from Newfoundland in 1501—observed that a | |
| Native American aboard the ship wore Venetian silver | |
| earrings. Another early chronicler noted in 1524 that | |
| Native Americans living along the coast of what is now | |
| (25) | New England had become selective about European |
| trade goods: they accepted only knives, fishhooks, | |
| and sharp metal. By the time Cartier sailed the Saint | |
| Lawrence River ten years later, Native Americans had | |
| traded with Europeans for more than thirty years, | |
| (30) | perhaps half a century. |
题目：
The passage suggests that which of the following is partially responsible for the difficulty in establishing the precise date when the fur trade in North America began?
选项:
A、A lack of written accounts before that of Nicolas Denys in 1672
B、A lack of written documentation before 1501
C、Ambiguities in the evidence from Native American sources
D、Uncertainty about Native American trade networks
E、Uncertainty about the origin of artifacts supposedly traded by European fishing crews for furs
答案:
B
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