Charles Heaphy and the settlement of New Zealand

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题目与答案

1. 1 Charles Heaphy gained employment with a railway company in Britain before he went to New Zealand.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
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   答案：TRUE

   原文定位：Eighteen was a young age for someone to become a hired artist and explorer for this kind of major land-trading company, but Charles Heaphy took on this role after 18 months producing technical drawings for a British railway company

2. The Taranaki region

   o 10 Heaphy's painting of a _____ was impressive but inaccurate.

   答案：mountain

   原文定位：His artistic response, Mt Egmont from the Southward, shows an image of the mountain that became his most famous painting. Despite the work being highly symmetrical, and the proportions being exaggerated

3. o 11 He gave the impression that there were plenty of _____ for building.

   答案：trees

   原文定位：as would the forest in the middle ground, suggesting a ready supply of trees which could be exploited for the construction of homes and ships

4. New Zealand in general

   o 12 Heaphy wrote favourably about the excellent _____ that New Zealand had.

   答案：climate

   原文定位：He was convinced it had the best climate in the world, and claimed that since the formation of the first Company settlement in Port Nicholson, almost no-one there had fallen sick

5. o 13 He implied in his writing that there was not as much _____ in New Zealand as there was in England.

   答案：illness

   原文定位：Indeed, Heaphy boasted that during his explorations, he had slept outside in all seasons and had never experienced a day's illness, certainly not the respiratory kind common in congested English cities

6. 2 Heaphy completed his studies at the Royal Academy.
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   • FALSE
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   答案：FALSE

   原文定位：a further two years studying occasionally at the Royal Academy's school of painting. His family had possibly lacked the financial means to enable him to continue at the Academy

7. 3 Heaphy's written records were generally more detailed than his paintings of New Zealand.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
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   答案：NOT GIVEN

   原文定位：His record of his travels through New Zealand is less comprehensive than those of some contemporaries, but what he did end up committing to paper and in paintings left an often vivid impression of travelling through various parts of the country

8. 4 Heaphy's first impression of the New Zealand landscape was a positive one.
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   • FALSE
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   答案：FALSE

   原文定位：On first sighting New Zealand's South Island, Heaphy commented that the high mountain ranges seemed to leave no space for farming, and that the country in general hardly seemed worth settling

9. 5 Heaphy believed that Queen Charlotte Sound was a poor choice for new migrants.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
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   答案：TRUE

   原文定位：Queen Chalotte Sound was the first place Heaphy visited. He remained unconvinced for years afterwards that it possessed the greatest habour in the country but accepted that the few patches of fertile ground in the area were insufficient for a major settlement

10. Heaphy's observations of places in New Zealand

    Porirua

    o 6 Heaphy said the _____ of the surrounding hills was of good quality.

    答案：soil

    原文定位：They found that the hills between Port Nicholson and Porirua were easy to cross and did not form the barrier they had expected, and were also of exceedingly rich and fertile soil

11. o 7 He described the land as looking like a _____ .

    答案：park

    原文定位：Heaphy depicted this possible place for settlement as having the beautiful appearance of a park, and thought most of it was fit for cultivation

12. Manawatu Plains

    o 8 Heaphy noted that its many _____ could be useful for transport

    答案：rivers

    原文定位：His assessment was again favourable, praising the level aspect of the plains and the way they were watered by numerous rivers. These, he said, were deep enough for the passage of small ships

13. o 9 He said a larger _____ was needed before Manawatu could be settled.

    答案：population

    原文定位：Writing to the New Zealand Company, he was confident that the countryside there was well adapted for settlement, but explained that this could only be accomplished by the growth of the population of places already colonised