[求助]01-01阅读理解一篇

LES

Questions 10-17

From their inception, most rural neighborhoods in colonial North America included

       at least one carpenter, joiner, sawyer, and cooper in woodworking; a weaver and a tailor      

       for clothing production; a tanner, currier, and cordwainer (shoemaker) for fabricating leather

       objects; and a blacksmith for metalwork, Where stone was the local building material, a

5)    mason was sure to appear on the list of people who paid taxes. With only an apprentice as

       an assistant, the rural artisan provided the neighborhood with common goods from furniture

       to shoes to farm equipment in exchange for cash or for “goods in kind” from the customer’s

       field, pasture, or dairy. Sometimes artisans transformed material provided by the customer

       wove cloth of yam spun at the farm from the wool of the family sheep; made chairs or tables

10)  from wood cut in the customer’s own woodlot; produced shoes or leather breeches from

       cow, deer, or sheepskin tanned on the farm.

              Like their farming neighbors, rural artisans were part of an economy seen, by one

       historian, as “an orchestra conducted by nature.” Some tasks could not be done in the winter,

       other had to be put off during harvest time, and still others waited on raw materials that were

15)  only produced seasonally. As the days grew shorter, shop hours kept pace, since few artisans

       could afford enough artificial light to continue work when the Sun went down. To the best

       of their ability, colonial artisans tried to keep their shops as efficient as possible and to

       regularize their schedules and methods of production for the best return on their investment

       in time, tools, and materials, While it is pleasant to imagine a woodworker, for example,

20)  carefully matching lumber, joining a chest together without resort to nails or glue, and

       applying all thought and energy to carving beautiful designs on the finished piece, the time

       required was not justified unless the customer was willing to pay extra for the quality—

       and few in rural areas were, Artisans, therefore, often found it necessary to employ as

       many shortcuts and economics as possible while still producing satisfactory products.

17. It can inferred that the artisans referred to in the passage usually produced products that

were  

   (A) simple

   (B) delicate

   (C) beautifully decorated

   (D) exceptionally long-lasting  

这题XDF给的答案是D，不过偶怎么也想不通。偶觉得这题的解题关键是上面黄色highlight部分，但是偶实在不懂这个still satisfactory products到底是什么products?

waterfrog

不可能是D的，答案错了，应该选C，整篇文章没有说到过long-lasting的问题

划线部分的意思是工匠们因此通常使用最简单经济的方法制作出合格的产品

LES

谢谢waterfrog！不过偶觉得不可能是C，因为下一段话就是描述工匠如何制作精美的家具，但是最后说很少有人愿意为此支付额外的费用，所以匠们通常使用最简单经济的方法制作出令人满意的产品。由此可见这个产品一定不是什么beautifully decorated的产品。若翻成中文，偶觉得应该是“经济实用的产品”，可是这四个选项好像都不太符合

While it is pleasant to imagine a woodworker, for example, carefully matching lumber, joining a chest together without resort to nails or glue, and applying all thought and energy to carving beautiful designs on the finished piece, the time     required was not justified unless the customer was willing to pay extra for the quality— and few in rural areas were

waterfrog

哎呀哎呀，手误…………怎么会打成C呢………………

答案应该是A来的

LES

确认吗?

karen125

应该选C吧！

原文里不是有一句applying all thought and energy to carving beautiful designs on the finished piece么？

mutegirl

欢迎les常来

LES

以下是引用mutegirl在2005-4-17 21:49:00的发言：
欢迎les常来

不好意思，偶现在是专职灌水员了。

LES

以下是引用karen125在2005-4-17 21:44:00的发言：

应该选C吧！

原文里不是有一句applying all thought and energy to carving beautiful designs on the finished piece么？

我觉得是A啦，

这句话是在转折前的，mm再仔细看看。

原文的意思是如果客户愿意为.......(一些精美装饰等)支付额外的费用的话，工匠们是会这么做的，但是客户们不愿意，所以一般情况下工匠们是不这么做的。

karen125

哦，对，有一个while在这里。

谢谢~~