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Decide which of the choices given below would correctly complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Select the correct choice for each blank.
Proclamation of 1763 was declared by the British crown at the end of the French and Indian War in
North America, mainly intended to (26)_____ the Indians by checking the encroachment of white settlers on their lands. After Indian (27)_____ had resulted in the start of Pontiac's War (1763-64), British authorities determined to (28)_____ intercolonial rivalries and abuses by dealing with Indian problems (29)_____. To this end, the (30)_____ organized new British territories in America -- the provinces of Quebec, East and West Florida, and Grenada (in the Windward Islands) -- and a vast British-administered Indian reservation west of the Appalachians, from south of Hudson Bay to north of the Florida. It forbade all white settlement (31)_____ Indian territory, ordered those settlers already there to withdraw, and strictly limited future settlement. For the first time in the history of European colonization in the New World, the proclamation (32)_____ the concept of Indian land titles, prohibiting (33)_____ of patents to any lands claimed by a tribe (34)_____ the Indian title had first been (35)_____ by purchase or treaty.
Although (36)_____ to alter western boundaries, the proclamation was nevertheless offensive to the colonies as (37)_____ interference in their affairs. Treaties following Pontiac's War drew a more acceptable line of settlement, and the balance of territory north of the Ohio River was added to Quebec in 1774. The proclamation, however, failed to (38)_____ the westward movement of pioneers, (39)_____ disregard of its provisions (40)_____ decades of continued Indian warfare throughout the area
26.
A. facilitate
B. dilapidate
C. conciliate
D. distillate
正确答案是
27.
A. grimaces
B. grievances
C. grime
D. groans
正确答案是
28.
A. reduce
B. deduce
C. overthrow
D. subdue
正确答案是