高考英语二月阅读理解精选(1)

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高考英语（二月）阅读理解精选（

1

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The modern British

Empire

first

took

shape

in

the

early

17th

century

，

with

the

British

settlement

of

the

eastern

colonies

of

North

America

，

which

would

later

become

the

original

United

States

，

as

well

as

Canada's

Maritime

provinces

，

and

the

colonizations of the smaller islands of the Caribbean such as Trinidad and Tobago

，

the Bahamas

，

Barbados

，

an d Jamaica.

These sugar plantation islands

，

where slavery became the basis of the economy

，

were

at

first

Britain's

most

important

and

successful

American

colonies

providing tobacco

，

cotton

，

and rice in the south and naval material and furs in the

north

were

less

financially

successful

，

but

had

large

areas

of

good

agricultural

land

and attracted far larger numbers of British immigrants.

Britain's American empire was slowly expanded by war and ever

growing

American

colonies

pressed

westward

in

search

of

new

agricultural

ct arose with the Dutch over trade and empir

e; First Anglo?Dutch War

(1652

～1654); Second Anglo?Dutch War (1665～1667); Third Anglo?Dutch War (1672～

1674);

Britain

gained

control

of

New

Amsterdam

，

which

was

renamed

New

York

，

but

ceded

defeated the French

，

first expanding their hold over the maritime

during

the

Seven

Years

War

the

British

defeated

the

French

at

the

Plains

of

Abraham

and

captured

all

of

New

France

in

gave

Britain

control

over

almost

all

of

North

Anglo?Dutch

War

(1780～1784);

Anglo?Dutch

Tr

eaty

of

1814

；

Anglo?Dutch Treaty of 1824.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century a series of technological

advances

led

to

the

Industrial

n's

position

as

the

world's

pre?eminent trader helped fund research and experimentation.T

he nation was also

gifted by some of the world's greatest reserves of coal

，

the main fuel of the new

revolution.

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Notes

：

①

naval

adj

.

海的

②cede

vt

.

放弃

③treaty

n

．条约

④pre?eminent

adj

.

卓越的；优秀的

长短句分析：

The

American

colonies

providing

tobacco

，

cotton

，

and

rice

in

the

south

and naval material and furs in the north were less financially successful

，

but had

large areas of good agricultural land and attracted far larger numbers of British

immigrants.

句法点睛：本句中，“providing tobacco，

cotton

，

and rice in the south and naval

material an

d furs in the north”为定语，修饰

colonies

；

but

连接两个谓语。

句意：美洲的殖民地，南方提供了烟草、棉花、水稻，北方提供了海产品和皮毛，这从

经济上不是很成功，但是肥沃的农业用地吸引了大量的英国移民。

【语篇解读】

现代大不列颠帝国的雏 形开始于

17

世纪，当时英国占领了现在美国、加

拿大临海的一些省份以及北美一些岛屿国家的地方。英国进行了残酷的殖民统治，从当地人