[C] Boston.

　　[D] Charleston.

　　9. The word “predecessors” (Line 1, Para. 4) refer to .

　　[A] colonists who arrived in North America in the seventeenth century.

　　[B] houses constructed before the eighteenth�瞔entury.

　　[C] interior improvements.

　　[D] wooden houses in Charleston.

　　10. What does the author imply about the use of wallpaper before 1730?

　　[A] Wallpaper samples appeared in the architectural manuals.

　　[B] Wallpaper was the same color as the paints used.

　　[C] Patterned wallpaper was not widely used.

　　[D] Wallpaper was not in stone houses.

　　核心詞匯

　　architecture n. 建筑學(xué)，建筑術(shù);建筑風(fēng)格，建筑式樣

　　amateur a. 業(yè)余的, 非職業(yè)的;外行的n. 業(yè)余愛(ài)好者;外行, 生手

　　impetus n. 推動(dòng), 促進(jìn), 刺激;推動(dòng)力

　　elaborate vi. 詳盡說(shuō)明vt. 詳細(xì)制定a. 復(fù)雜的;精心制作的

　　難句剖析

　　1. Since architecture was not yet a specialized profession in the colonies, the design of buildings was life either to amateur designers or to carpenters who undertook to interpret architectural manuals imported from England.

　　【解析】 句子主干是the design of buildings was life either to amateur designers or to carpenters。since引導(dǎo)的是原因狀語(yǔ)從句。who undertook to interpret architectural manuals imported from England作amateur designers or carpenters的定語(yǔ)。

　　【譯文】 由于建筑在殖民地還不是一項(xiàng)專門的職業(yè)，房屋設(shè)計(jì)或者由業(yè)余設(shè)計(jì)者來(lái)做，或者由那些承擔(dān)對(duì)從英國(guó)進(jìn)口的建筑手冊(cè)的翻譯任務(wù)的木匠來(lái)做。

　　2. Increasing wealth and growing sophistication throughout the colonies resulted in houses of improved design, whether