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Surprisingly enough, modem historians have rarely interested themselves in the history of the American South in the period befor
Surprisingly enough, modem historians have rarely interested themselves in the history of the American South in the period befor
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2010-02-21
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问题
Surprisingly enough, modem historians have rarely interested themselves in the history of the American South in the period before the South began to become self-consciously and distinctively "Southern"——the decades after 1815. Consequently, the cultural history of Britain’s North American empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has been written almost as if the Southern colonies had never existed. The American culture that emerged during the Colonial and Revolutionary eras has been depicted as having been simply an extension of New England Puritan culture. However, Professor Davis has recently argued that the South stood apart from the rest of American society during this early period, following its own unique pattern of cultural development. The case for Southern distinctiveness rests upon two related premises: first, that the cultural similarities among the five Southern colonies were far more impressive than the differences, and second, that what made those colonies alike also made them different from the other colonies. The first, for which Davis offers an enormous amount of evidence, can be accepted without major reservations; the second is far more problematic.
What makes the second premise problematic is the use of the Puritan colonies as a basis for comparison. Quite properly, Davis decries the excessive influence ascribed by historians to the Puritans in the formation of American culture. Yet Davis inadvertently odds weight to such ascriptions by using the Puritans as the standard against which to assess the achievements and contributions of Southern colonials. Throughout, Davis focuses on the important, and undeniable, differences between the Southern and Puritan colonies in motives for and patterns of early settlement, in attitudes toward nature and Native Americans, and in the degree of receptivity to metropolitan cultural influences.
However, recent scholarship has strongly suggested that those aspects of early New England culture that seem to have been most distinctly Puritan, such as the strong religious orientation and the communal impulse, were not even typical of New England as a whole, but were largely confined to the two colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Thus, what in contrast to the Puritan colonies appears to Davis to be peculiarly Southern——acquisitiveness, a strong interest in politics and the law, and a tendency to cultivate metropolitan cultural models——was not only more typically English than the cultural patterns exhibited by Puritan Massachusetts and Connecticut, but also almost certainly characteristic of most other early modern British colonies from Barbados north to Rhode Island: and New Hampshire. Within the larger framework of American colonial life, then, not the Southern——but the Puritan colonies appear to have been distinctive, and even they seem to have been: rapidly assimilating to the dominant cultural patterns by the late Colonial period.
Which of the following statements could most logically follow the last sentence of the passage?
选项
A、Thus, without the cultural diversity represented by the American South, the culture of colonial America would certainly have been homogeneous in nature.
B、Thus, the contribution of Southern colonials to American culture was certainly overshadowed by that of the Puritans.
C、Thus, convergence, not divergence, seems to have characterized the cultural development of the American colonies in the eighteenth century.
D、Thus, the culture of America during the Colonial period was far more sensitive to outside influence than historians are accustomed to acknowledge.
答案
C
解析
此题可用排除法。A如果没有南方文化的异样性,整个美洲文化就会趋同,说法太绝对,不正确。B南部文化被清教徒文化所遮蔽,与原文意思相反。D文中没有涉及这个问题。
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