Reading Comprehension 从下列每篇短文的问题后所给的四个选择项中选出一个最佳答案。 The English settlement in America followed two different paths represented by settlements at Jamestown in Virginia and Plymouth in Massachusetts. The first permanent English colonists in America settled at Jamestown in 1607. The Virginia Company of London, which organized the settlement, certainly expected profit. The Queen, permitting the settlement, hoped for greater empire, power, and profit. The individuals who sailed to Virginia wanted glory and gold. Thus, the major reason for the settlement of Virginia was to make money. In the beginning , the Virginia Company found that people would not go to America despite glowing descriptions. In 1618, when the Virginia Company began giving fifty acres of land to each individual who came to America, the future of American colonization was finally secured. Later colonies all had to compete with Virginia's freehold system of grants of land. In this sense, land-which meant wealth and status-attracted colonist. In contrast, the first permanent European settlement in New England was founded at Plymouth by the Pilgrims for religious purposes. These settlers, later known as the Pilgrim Fathers, came from Nottinghamshire. They were cruelly treated by the Church of England and in 1606 fled to Holland, where, in Leiden, they found the religious freedom they were looking for. Although they remained there for some eleven years, they realized that their children were growing up to be Dutch rather than English . In the end, they decided, with the backing of London merchants, to leave for the English colonies in North America. After a sixty-five-day journey, the Pilgrims arrived at Provincetown on November 21, 1620. They soon discovered Plymouth Harbor on the western side of Cape Cod Bay, and made their historic landing on December 21. Other groups of settlers followed the example of the Pilgrims: the Catholic settlement of Maryland in 1633, Roger Williams's Rhode Island refuge in 1636, and William Penn's settlement of a Quaker colony in Pennsylvania in 1681.