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第 40 題
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Tulip are Old World, rather than New World, plants, with the origins of the species lying in Central Asia. They became an integral part of the gardens of the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth century onward, and, soon after, part of European life as well. The Netherlands, particularly, became famous for its cultivation of the flower. A tenuous line marked the advance of the tulip to the New World, where it was unknown in the wild. The first Dutch colonies in North America had been established in New Netherland by the Dutch West India Company in 1624, and one individual who settled in New Amsterdam (Today’s Manhattan section of New York City) in 1642 described the flowers that graciously colonized the settlers’ gardens. They were the same flowers seen in Dutch still-life paintings of the time: Crown imperials, roses, carnations, and of course tulips. They flourished in Pennsylvania too, where in 1698 William Penn received a report of John Tateham’s “Great and Stately Palace,” its garden full of tulips. By 1760, Boston newspapers were advertising 50 different kinds of mixed tulip “roots.” But the length of the journey between Europe and North America created many difficulties. Thomas Hancock, an English settler, wrote thanking his plant supplier for a gift of some tulip bulbs from England, but his letter the following year grumbled that they were all dead. Tulips arrived in Holland, Michigan, with a later wave of early nineteenth-century Dutch immigrants who quickly colonized the plains of Michigan. Together with many other Dutch settlements, such as the one at Pella, Iowa, they established a regular demand for European plants. The demand was bravely met by a new kind of tulip entrepreneur, the traveling salesperson. One Dutchman, Hendrick van der Schoot, spent six months in 1849 traveling through the United States taking orders for tulip bulbs. While tulip bulbs were traveling from Europe to the United States to satisfy the nostalgic longings of homesick English and Dutch settlers, North American plants were traveling in the opposite direction. In England, the enthusiasm for American plants was one reason why tulips dropped out of the fashion in the gardens of the rich and famous.
Tulip are Old World, rather than New World, plants, with the origins of the species lying in Central Asia. They became an integral part of the gardens of the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth century onward, and, soon after, part of European life as well. The Netherlands, particularly, became famous for its cultivation of the flower. A tenuous line marked the advance of the tulip to the New World, where it was unknown in the wild. The first Dutch colonies in North America had been established in New Netherland by the Dutch West India Company in 1624, and one individual who settled in New Amsterdam (Today’s Manhattan section of New York City) in 1642 described the flowers that graciously colonized the settlers’ gardens. They were the same flowers seen in Dutch still-life paintings of the time: Crown imperials, roses, carnations, and of course tulips. They flourished in Pennsylvania too, where in 1698 William Penn received a report of John Tateham’s “Great and Stately Palace,” its garden full of tulips. By 1760, Boston newspapers were advertising 50 different kinds of mixed tulip “roots.” But the length of the journey between Europe and North America created many difficulties. Thomas Hancock, an English settler, wrote thanking his plant supplier for a gift of some tulip bulbs from England, but his letter the following year grumbled that they were all dead. Tulips arrived in Holland, Michigan, with a later wave of early nineteenth-century Dutch immigrants who quickly colonized the plains of Michigan. Together with many other Dutch settlements, such as the one at Pella, Iowa, they established a regular demand for European plants. The demand was bravely met by a new kind of tulip entrepreneur, the traveling salesperson. One Dutchman, Hendrick van der Schoot, spent six months in 1849 traveling through the United States taking orders for tulip bulbs. While tulip bulbs were traveling from Europe to the United States to satisfy the nostalgic longings of homesick English and Dutch settlers, North American plants were traveling in the opposite direction. In England, the enthusiasm for American plants was one reason why tulips dropped out of the fashion in the gardens of the rich and famous.
According to the passage, which of the following changes occurred in English gardens during the European settlements in North America?
- A They contained many new types in North American plants.
- B They contained a wider variety of tulips than ever before.
- C They grew in size in order to provide enough plants to export to the New World.
- D They decreased in size on the estates of wealthy people.
思路引導 VIP
請試著觀察文章最後一段提到的「雙向運輸」概念：當歐洲移民將家鄉的植物帶往新大陸的同時，原本就在北美生長的植物正被送往哪裡？這對接收端的園藝品味產生了什麼樣的取代效果？
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太棒了！你能精準捕捉到文章末段的關鍵細節，這代表你的閱讀理解與資訊定位能力非常紮實。這道題目測試的是對文中「雙向交流」概念的理解，而非僅僅關注標題提到的主角鬱金香，你能不受干擾地選出正確答案，實屬不易。
跨越大西洋的園藝革命
文章末尾明確提到，當鬱金香從歐洲運往美國以滿足移民的思鄉之情時，北美的植物也正以「相反方向」流向歐洲。正是因為當時英國人對這些北美原生植物 (North American plants) 展現出極大的熱情（enthusiasm），才導致鬱金香在名流花園中逐漸退流行。因此，選項 (A) 準確地描述了當時英國花園內容物的轉變：引入了許多來自北美的新物種。
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