TPO74阅读真题+题目+答案下载：The Commercialization of Pearl River Agriculture

TPO74阅读真题+题目+答案下载：The Commercialization of Pearl River Agriculture

The Pearl River Delta of southern China was an agriculturally rich region. Formed of alluvial soils that had been captured from the silt flowing down from the major rivers,these sand flats,as the Chinese called them,were worked and reworked until they became very productive rice paddies that by the sixteenth century annually produced two crops of rice and one of vegetables and wheat.Peasant farmers produced on their own plots much of the food the family consumed.However,agriculture in the region could not be called subsistence agriculture,for many nonfood commercial crops were grown and exchanged in markets that dotted the countryside.Besides rice,peasant farmers in the Pearl River Delta grew sugarcane,hemp,cotton,and mulberries to feed silkworms, among other crops.

But while commerce and market exchanges were an important part of the rural economy until about 1550,the rural economy was not commercialized.As the population grew from 1400 to 1550,the gross volume of crops marketed and the number of rural markets both increased,but they did so at the rate of population growth.The proportion of agricultural land devoted to commercial crops in 1550 was about what it had been in 1400.But after 1550 the agricultural economy of the region became highly commercialized.Markets and marketing activity expanded at a rate faster than that of the population........余下托福TPO74阅读原文省略！

1.The passage states that agriculture in the Pearl River Delta "could not be called subsistence agriculture " because peasant farmers 

A fell short of producing all of the food their families needed 

B produced sizable crops for trading at nearby markets 

C worked some land that was outside of their own plots 

D kept working the same land but achieved bigger and bigger crops

2.Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage?lncorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information. 

A Between 1400 and 1550,the number of rural markets and the volume of crops traded in them grew only as fast as the population did. 

B Between 1400 and 1550,the population grew rapidly,as did the number of rural markets and the volume of crops traded.

C The growth in gross volume of crops marketed and in the number of rural markets promoted population growth between 1400 and 1550. 

D Population growth between 1400 and 1550 stimulated an increase in the volume of crops traded in rural markets.

3.According to paragraph 3,what role did Portuguese traders play in the commercialization of the Pearl River economy? 

A They created a market for Chinese silk and porcelains in the Philippines. 

B They allowed Japanese merchants to buy goods from them on credit. 

C They established the first biannual fairs in the city of Guangzhou. 

D They bought goods in Guangzhou and later sold them in Nagasaki.

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