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Houses in 18th Century North America
Seventeenth-century houses in colonial North America were simple structures that were primarily functional, carrying over traditional designs that went back to the Middle Ages. During the first half of the eighteenth century, however, houses began to show a new elegance. As wealth increased, more and more colonists built fine houses.
Since architecture was not yet a specialized profession in the colonies, the design of buildings was left either to amateur designers or to carpenters who undertook to interpret architectural manuals imported from England. Inventories of colonial libraries show an astonishing number of these handbooks for builders, and the houses erected during the eighteenth century show their influence. Nevertheless, most domestic architecture of the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century displays a wide divergence of taste and freedom of application of the rules laid down i
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B. Customers.
C. Interior decorators.
D. Carpenters.
[单项选择]Seventeenth-century houses in colonial North America were simple structures that were primarily functional, carrying over traditional designs that went back to the Middle Ages. During the first half of the eighteenth century, however, houses began to show a new elegance. As wealth increased, more and more colonists built fine houses.
Since architecture was not yet a specialized profession in the colonies, the design of buildings was left either to amateur designers or to carpenters who undertook to interpret architectural manuals imported from England. Inventories of colonial libraries show an astonishing number of these handbooks for builders, and the houses erected during the eighteenth century show their influence. Nevertheless, most domestic architecture of the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century displays a wide divergence of taste and freedom of application of the rules laid down in these books.
Increasing wealth and growing sophistication throughout the colon
[填空题]In nineteenth-century America, most migrants went west because the region seemed to promise a better life.
Life on the farm, however, was much harder than it was (36) Migrants often encountered shortages of (37) they had once taken for granted. The open grassland contained little wood for (38) and fuel. Water was sometimes (39) as well. Few families were lucky or wealthy enough to buy land near a stream that did not dry up in summer and (40) in winter.
The weather was seldom predictable. In summer, weeks of extreme heat and dry winds often gave way to violent storms that washed away crops and (41) . In winter, the wind and cold from blizzards piled up (42) snowdrifts that halted all outdoor movement. The storm trapped schoolchildren and killed several parents who (43) out to rescue them. (44) . In the fall, a week without rain could turn dry grasslands into tinder, and the sl
