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PART
Ⅱ
READING COMPREHENSION
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25
MIN.
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In
this
section
there
are
four
passages
followed
by
fifteen
questions
or
unfinished
statements,
each
with
four
suggested answers marked A, B, C and D.
Choose the one that you think is the correct
answer.
Mark your choice
on
your ANSWER SHEET.
TEXT A
As many as one thousand years ago in
the Southwest, the Hopi and Zuni Indians of North
America were building
with
a
dobe
－
sun
baked
brick
plastered
with
mud.
Their
homes
looked
remarkably
like
modern
apartment
houses. Some were four stories high and
contained quarters for perhaps a thousand people,
along with storerooms
for grain and
other goods. These buildings were usually put up
against cliffs, both to make construction easier
and
for
defense
against
enemies.
They
were
really
villages
in
themselves,
as
later
Spanish
explorers
must
have
realized since they
called them
“
pueblos
< br>”
, which is Spanish for
town.
The people of the pueblos raised
what are
called
“
the three
sisters
”
—
corn, beans, and squash.
They made excellent pottery and wove marvelous
baskets,
some so fine that they could
hold water. The Southwest has always been a dry
country, where water is scarce. The
Hopi and Zuni brought water from
streams to their fields and gardens through
irrigation ditches. Water was so
important that it played a major role
in their religion. They developed elaborate
ceremonies and religious rituals to
bring rain.
The
way of life of less
settled groups was
simpler and more strongly influenced by nature.
Small tribes such as
the Shoshone and
Ute wandered the dry and
mountainous
lands between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific
Ocean.
They
gathered
seeds
and
hunted
small
animals
such
as
small
rabbits
and
snakes.
In
the
Far
North
the
ancestors of today’s Inuit hunted
seals, walruses, and the
great whales.
They lived right on the
frozen seas in shelters called igloos built of
blocks of packed snow. When summer
came, they fished for salmon and hunted
the lordly caribou.
The
Cheyenne, Pawnee, and Sioux tribes, known as the
Plains Indians, lived on the grasslands between
the Rocky
Mountains
and
the
Mississippi
River.
They
hunted
bison,
commonly
called
the
buffalo.
Its
meat
was
the
chief
food of these tribes,
and its hide was used to make their clothing and
covering of their tents and tipis.
16. What does the passage mainly
discuss?
A. The architecture
of early American Indian buildings.
B. The movement of American Indians
across North America.
C.
Ceremonies and rituals of American
Indians.
D. The way of life
of American Indian tribes in early North
America.
17. It can be
inferred from the passage that the dwellings of
the Hopi and Zuni were
___
A. very
small
B. highly
advanced
C. difficult to
defend
D. quickly
constructed
TEXT B
Most earthquakes occur within the upper
15 miles of the
earth’s surface. But
earthquakes can and do occur at all
depths
to
about
460
miles.
Their
number
decreases
as
the
depth
increases. At
about
460
miles
one
earthquake
occurs
only
every
few
years.
Near
the
surface
earthquakes
may
run
as
high
as
100
in
a
month,
but
the
yearly
average
does
not
vary
much.
In
comparison
with
the
total
number
of
earthquakes
each
year,
the
number
of
disastrous earthquakes is very
small.[JP]
The extent of the
disaster in an earthquake depends on many factors.
If you carefully build a toy house with an
erect set, it will still stand no
matter how much you shake the table. But if you
build a toy house with a pack of
cards,
a slight shake of the table will make it fall. An
earthquake in Agadir, Morocco, was not strong
enough to be
recorded
on
distant
instruments,
but
it
completely
destroyed
the
city.
Many
stronger
earthquakes
have
done
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