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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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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
adornments——adornment
解析
本题为名词误用。adornment作为“装饰”是不可数名词,作为“装饰品”为可数名词。此处for adornment表示为了修饰美观的目的,应当用抽象名词。
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