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  3. Exactly when in the early modern era Native Americans began exchanging animal furs with Europeans for European-made goods is unc

Exactly when in the early modern era Native Americans began exchanging animal furs with Europeans for European-made goods is unc

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问题 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 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 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 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 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 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, perhaps half a century.
Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about evidence pertaining to the fur trade between Native Americans and Europeans in the early modern era?
选项 A、A lack of written evidence has made it difficult to establish which Europeans first participated in this trade.
B、In general, the physical evidence pertaining to this trade has been more useful than the written evidence has been.
C、There is more written evidence pertaining to this trade from the early part of the sixteenth century than from later in that century.
D、The earliest written evidence pertaining to this trade dates from a time when the trade was already well established.
E、Some important pieces of evidence pertaining to this trade, such as Denys’s 1672 account, were long overlooked by archaeologists.
答案D
解析 Inference
This question asks about information that can be inferred from the passage. Any suggestion that Native Americans may have produced written evidence of the early-modern trade with Europeans is absent from the passage. The second paragraph states that by the time Europeans first documented the fur trade, it was already well underway. This statement, in the context of the passage, implies that the earliest written records of the trade date to a time after it was well established.
A The first paragraph indicates that the first Europeans to participate in the trade were quite certainly fishing crews near Newfoundland.
B The passage gives no indication that physical evidence of the trade has been more useful than written evidence.
C Although the passage does not cite written evidence from the late sixteenth century, the passage gives no reason to believe that less written evidence exists from that time.
D Correct. According to the passage, the fur trade was well underway when written evidence of the trade was first documented by Europeans. The passage contains no suggestion that there might have been earlier documentation of that trade by anybody other than Europeans.
E The passage does not imply that archaeologists overlooked evidence for long periods of time.
The correct answer is D.
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