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  3. As the merchantman class expanded in the eighteenth century North 1.______. American Colonies, the silversmith and the coppersmi

As the merchantman class expanded in the eighteenth century North 1.______. American Colonies, the silversmith and the coppersmi

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问题     As the merchantman class expanded in the eighteenth century North 1.______.
American Colonies, the silversmith and the coppersmith businesses rose
to serve it. Quite a few silversmiths were available in New York or Boston 2.______
in the late seventeenth century, but in the eighteenth century they could
be found in all main colonial cities. No other colonial artisans rivaled the 3.______
silversmiths’ prestige. They handled the most expensive materials and
possessed direct connections to prosperous colonial merchants. Their
products, primarily silver plates and bowls, reflected their exalting status 4.______
and testified for their customers’ prominence. Silver stood as one of the 5.______
surest ways to store wealth at a time after neighborhood banks existed. 6.______
Unlike the silver coins from which they were made, silver articles were
readily identifiable. Often formed to individual specifications, they always
carried the silversmith’s distinctive markings and consequently could be
traced and retrieved. Customers generally secure the silver for the silver
object they ordered. They saved coins, took them to smiths, and discussed
the type of pieces they desired. Silversmiths complied to these requests 7.______
by melting the money in a small furnace, adding a bit of copper to form
a stronger alloy, and cast the alloy in rectangular blocks. They hammered 8. ______
these ingots to the appropriate thickness by hand, shaped them and pressed
designs into them for adornments. Engraving was also done by hand. 9.______
In addition to plates and bowls, some customers sought more intricate
products, such as silver teapots. These were made by shaping or casting
parts separately and then soldering it together. 10.______
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答案main——major
解析 本题为形容词误用。main与major是近义词，都含有主要的意思。但main意为“主要的”，强调事物的某一部分、分支的重要性、大小及潜力优于其他部分、分支，或表示该部分在整个事物中占有显赫的地位。如：This article has in the main preserved the fairness of news reporting．该文章大体上保留了新闻报道所用的不偏不倚的风格。major意为“重大的，主要的”，指在规模、数量、重要性方面超出同类的其他事物。如：John has also played a major part in the improvement of the paper．约翰在改进这份报纸的工作中也起了较大的作用。此处表示重要城市，应当用major。
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