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Question 9-20
Despite the road improvements of the turnpike era (1790-1830). Americans continued as in colonial times to depend wherever possible on water routes for travel and transportation. The larger rivers, especially the Mississippi and the Ohio, became increasingly useful as steamboats grew in number and improved in design.
River boats carried to New Orleans the corn and other crops of northwestern farmers, the cotton and tobacco of southwestern planters. From New Orleans, ships took the cargoes on to eastern seaports. Neither the farmers of the west nor the merchants of the east were completely satisfied with this pattern of trade. Farmers could get better prices for their crops if the alternative existed of sending them directly eastward to market and merchants could sell larger quantities of their manufactured goods if these could be transported more directly and more economically to the west.
New waterways were needed. Sectional jealousies and constitutional scruples stood in the way of action by the federal government and necessary expenditures were too great for private enterprise. If extensive canals were to be dug, the job would be up to the various states.
New York was the first to act. It had the natural advantage of a comparatively level route between the Hudson River and Lake Erie, through the only break in the entire Appalachian Mountain chain. Yet the engineering tasks were imposing. The distance was more than 350 miles and there were ridges to cross and a wilderness of woods and swamps to penetrate. The Erie Canal begun in 1817 and completed in 1825, was by far the greatest construction job that Americans had ever undertaken. It quickly proved a financial success as well. The prosperity of the Erie encouraged the state to enlarge its canal system by building several branches.
The range of the New York canal system was still further extended when the states of Ohio and Indiana, inspired by the success of the Erie Canal, provided water connections between Lake Erie and the Ohio River.
14. According to the passage, where was the Erie Canal located?
(A) Between Ohio and Indiana.
(B) Along the Appalachian Mountains
(C) Between Lake Erie and the Ohio River
(D) Across New York State.

15. The word "imposing" in line 18 could best be replaced by
(A) impractical
(B) successful
(C) demanding
(D) misleading

14，15题的答案及相关解析。请详解之

答案是1.B 2.C 我认为第一题也是选D
第四段第一二句的中文意思是： 纽约首先行动起来。因为穿过整个Appalachian山脉的唯一缺口，Hudson河 和 Erie湖之间相对平坦的路线具有天然优势——然而工程任务是十分费力的，全长超过350英里，需要跨越山脊穿过原始的树林和沼泽。
imposing是使人难忘的，壮丽的意思。imposing在这里是什么意思呢？怎么会和demanding是一个意思呢？

1. D
2. C
我觉得啊
第一题看第四段第一二句话就知道了
第二题看imposing后面几句大概能推测出他是说这个工程浩大

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