解题关键是文章第一段第三句话:“The first immigrants were Europeans,and they arrived in Jamestown,Virginia,in 1607.”。该句明确说了美国的第一批移民是欧洲人。选项A.The African slaves., “非洲奴隶”;B.The Asian descendents., “亚洲后裔”;D.The native Americans., “美洲本土人”,都明显不符合原...
America. Then the Europeans had dandelion seeds(种子) on their clothes. When they traveled to North America, the seeds fell from their clothes onto the ground. Since then, dandelions have spread all over.Most people believe that dandelions are weeds, which only grow in the fields or on the...
The ways in which Europeans have tried to make sense of America constitute a special chapter in the European history of ideas. At first glance what strikes us in the bewildering variety of European readings of America is the recurring attempt to formulate the critical differences that set America...
Prior to the arrival of the Europeans, American Indians were remarkably free of serious diseases and rarely died from illness. This; however, drastically changed as Europeans and colonists began to arrive, bringing with them measles, scarlet fever, typhoid, typhus, influenza, whooping cough, tubercu...
71The Vikings were the first Europeans(加to) reach America. The Vikings were a group of people which(改为whose)ancestors came from Scandinavia.They controlled the seas and coasts of Northern Europe between the 8th and 10th centuries AD.By around 900 AD,there had (改为were) many places in ...
According to the text, we know that Europeans came to America earliest.2. Some tribes grew their own food and they lived in wooden houses.3. Most native American tribes often fought because of food and houses.4. Songs, poetry and peace pipes are important tradition for some Native Americans...
able to move long distances at short notice. Their military potential was much greater than that even of the semisedentary peoples. With so littleincentivefor the Europeans to subdue them, so few points of contact between their societies, and such great ability and will on the part of the no...
12. People of North America: Before the Europeans arrived in North America, the indigenous and native Americans were the people who lived on the continent. Today, the biggest groups of native Americans are the Cherokee, Navajo and Iroquois people. Only 2% of all US Americans consider themselves...
Only a few Europeans lived in North America in the 16th century. Most of them settled (定居) on the northeast coast. In 1587, a small group of about 100 people decided to go south. They moved to the small island of Roanoke. That area later became part of the state of North Carolina...
The second largest group—the métis—is composed of descendants of mixed marriages of Indians and Europeans. They constitute the basic population in a number of countries (Mexico, the majority of the Central American republics, Venezuela, Paraguay, and others). The third group—the mulattoes—is...