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ENGLAND’S ECONOMY IN THE 16TH CENTURY (1) In the last half of the 16th century England emerged as a commercial and manufactu
ENGLAND’S ECONOMY IN THE 16TH CENTURY (1) In the last half of the 16th century England emerged as a commercial and manufactu
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ENGLAND’S ECONOMY IN THE 16TH CENTURY
(1) In the last half of the 16th century England emerged as a commercial and manufacturing power in Europe due to a combination of demographic, agricultural and industrial factors. The population of England and Wales grew rapidly from about 2.5 million in the 1520s to more than 3.5 million in 1580, reaching about 4.5 million in 1610. Reduced mortality rates and increased fertility, the latter probably generated by expanding work opportunities in manufacturing and farming (leading to earlier marriage and more children), explained this rapid rise in population. While epidemics and plague occasionally took their toll, the people in England still suffered less than did those in continental Europe.
Furthermore
, the country had been pulled out of the war that occurred in France and central Europe during the same period.
(2) England provides the prominent example of the expansion of agricultural production well before the general European agricultural revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. A larger population stimulated the increased woolens through crop civilization. English agriculture became more efficient and market-oriented than almost anywhere else on the continent. Between 1450 and 1640 the yield of grain per acre increased by at least 30%. In sharp contrast with fanning in Spain,
English land owners brought more dense marshes and woodlands into cultivation.
(3) The great land estates of the English society largely remained intact and many wealthy land owners aggressively increased the size of their holdings, a precondition for increased productivity. Marriages between the children of landowners also increased the size of land estates. Primogeniture (the full inheritance of land by the eldest son) helped prevent land from being subdivided. Younger sons of independent land owners left the family and went to find other respective locations. Larger farms contributed more to commercialized farming at the time when an expanding population pushed up demand and prices.
Farmland owners turned part of their land into pasture land for sheep
in order to adapt to developing woolen trade.
(4) Some of the great land owners as well as Yeomen (farmers whose holdings and security of land tenure guaranteed their prosperity and status), organized their holdings in the interests of efficiency. Many farmers selected crops for sales in growing London market. In their quest for greater profits, many land owners put their squeeze on their tenants. Between 1580 and 1620 land lords raised rents and altered conditions of land tenure in their favor, preferring shorter phases and forcing tenants to pay an entry fee before agreeing to rent them land. Landlords evicted those who could not afford annual, more onerous terms. But they also pushed tenants toward more productive farming methods, including crop rotation.
(5) England’s exceptional economic development also drew the country’s natural resources, including iron, timber, and coal, extracted in far greater quantity than elsewhere in the continent. New industrial development expanded the production of iron and pewter in and around the city of Birmingham.
(6) But above all textile manufacturing transformed English economy. Woolens, which accounted for 80% of the exports, worsted (sturdy yarn spun from combed wool fibers), and other cloth found eager buyers in England as well as in the continent. Moreover, late in the 16th century as English merchants began making forays across the Atlantic these textiles were also sold in the Americas. Cloth manufacturers undercut production by urban craftspeople by "putting out" work to the villages and farms of the countryside. In such domestic industry poor rural women could spin and make carding (combing fibers in preparation for spin) in their homes.
(7) The English textile trade was closely tied to Antwerp, in the Spanish Netherlands, where workers dyed English cloth. [A] The entrepreneur Sir Thomas Gresham became England’s representative there. [B] He so enhanced the reputation of English business in that region that English merchants could operate on credit—the most prominent achievement for the 16th century. [C] He also advised the government to explore the economic possibilities of Americas, which led to the first concerted efforts at colonization, undertaken with commercial profits in mind. [D]
Why does the author mention that "Farmland owners turned part of their land into pasture land for sheep"?
选项
A、To explain why the younger sons of land owners had to leave the family land and find other jobs
B、To provide an example of a way in which large farms were eager to improve their business
C、To explain how the practice of primogeniture worked
D、To describe a strategy land owners used to give their lands from being subdivided
答案
B
解析
本题询问为什么作者要提及农场主们把一部分土地变成牧场来养殖绵羊,属于修辞目的题。第3段最后两句提到,大型农场对农业商业化贡献更大,为了适应羊毛贸易的发展,农场主们把一部分土地变成牧场来养殖绵羊。这表明大型农场为应对市场变化作出了调整。因此,B项“为了提供‘大型农场都想要改善其经营方式’的例子”正确。A项“解释为什么土地持有者的次子们要离开家,去寻找其他工作”和C项“解释长子继承制的运作方式”均与题干所问无关。D项“为了描述土地持有者们过去常常为了避免将土地进行细分的一种策略”对应的是长子继承制的作用,即长子继承利于防止土地被分割,与题干所问也无关联。
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