what Dane thought of the careful sermons explaining the Bible that he heard in puritan churched.

Mean while , many settles had slighter religious mitments than Dane’s, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not e to the New wor ld for religion .“Our

main end was to catch fish.”

36.The

author notes that in the seventeenth-century New England___________.[A]

Puritan tradition dominated political life.[B]

intellectual interests were encouraged.[C]

Politics benefited much from intellectual endeavors.

[D] intellectual pursuits enjoyed a liberal environment.37.

It is suggested in paragraph

2 that New Englanders__________.[A]

experienced a paratively peaceful early history.[B]

brought with them the culture of the Old World [C] paid little attention to southern intellectual life [D] were obsessed with religious innovations 38.The

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