单选题 The English, like their French rivals, began their colonizing ventures in North America with a sincere interest in converting the Indians to Christianity and civilization. Nearly all the colonial charters (41) by the English monarchs in the 17th century assigned the wish to (42) the Christian Church and to redeem savage souls as a principal motive for (43) This desire was grounded in a (44) of complementary (45) about "savagism" and "civilization". The English held that the Indians were (46) of (47) . "It is not the nature of men, "they believed, "but the education of men , that makes them (48) and (49) ". Moreover, the English were confident that the Indians would want to be converted once they were exposed to the (50) quality of English life. The strength of these beliefs was reflected in Cotton Mather's works of his astonishment in 1721.

单选题 A. given B. signed C. granted

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】grant the charter(指国王或皇后批准的下属的特许权文书)；grant：to give what is wanted or requested(这是一个用法很正式的词)。

单选题 A. stretch B. extend C. respect

单选题 A. expansion B. advance C. colonization

单选题 A. sort B. kind C. set

单选题 A. beliefs B. acts C. motives

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】held=have the belief,从内容上看，第5题与下句话中的held是一致的。因此选[A]，这样才能保证上下文逻辑联系的一致。

单选题 A. able B. capable C. afraid

单选题 A. alarm B. colonization C. conversion

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】第7题可参考空白3、4、所在句子的内容排除[A]、[B]，conversion是名词，convert是动词，指make believe in(some religion)(使改信某种宗教)。

单选题 A. humble B. backward C.dispersed

单选题 A. ignorant B. impolite C. uncivilized

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】根据短文的后半部内容可确定这道题的答案。这句话的意思是(殖民者们)相信，是人的教育而并非人的本性使印第安人变得愚昧和野蛮的(同样，教育也可以使他们变得文明)。

单选题 A. inferior B.good C. superior

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】由于上下文中含有一个英国文化比印第安人文化高级的暗示，这也正是英国殖民者所相信的，所要显示的，所以此处选[C]。