题目材料
Exactly when in the early modern era Native Americans began exchanging animal furs with Europeans for European-made goods is uncertain. What is fairly certain, even though they left
no written evidence of having done so, is that the first Europeans to conduct such trade during the modern period were fishing crews working the waters around Newfoundland. Archaeologists had noticed that sixteenth-century Native American sites were strewn with iron bolts and metal pins. Only later, upon reading Nicolas Denys`s 1672 account of seventeenth-century European settlements in North America, did archaeologists realize that sixteenth-century European fishing crews had dismantled and exchanged parts of their ships for furs.
By the time Europeans sailing the Atlantic coast of North America first documented the fur trade, it was apparently well underway. The first to record such trade-the captain of a Portuguese vessel sailing from Newfoundland in 1501-observed that a Native American aboard the ship wore Venetian silver earrings. Another early chronicler noted in 1524 that♦ Native Americans living along the coast of what is now♦ New England had become selective about European trade goods: they accepted only knives, fishhooks, and sharp metal. By the time Cartier sailed the Saint Lawrence River ten years later, Native Americans had traded with Europeans for more than thirty years, perhaps half a century.
Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about the Native Americans mentioned in line 24?
- AThey had little use for decorative objects such as earrings.
- BThey became increasingly dependent on fishing between 1501 and 1524.
- CBy 1524, only certain groups of Europeans were willing to trade with them.
- DThe selectivity of their trading choices made it difficult for them to engage in widespread trade with Europeans.
- EThe selectivity of their trading choices indicates that they had been trading with Europeans for a significant period of time prior to 1524.
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正确答案: E