[读《从字词学习抵达阅读理解》一文有感]在周一贯先生主编的《小学语文文体教学大观》一书中，我读到了莫国夫的一篇文章，心中颇受触动。文中指出： 小学阅读教学承担着识字学词的功能，同时这又是一个双向互动的过程，即识...+阅读
As many as one thousand years ago in the Southwest, the Hopi and Zuni Indians of North America were building with adobe－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 store rooms 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 he realized since they called them "pueblos", 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, monly 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
参考答案及解析：
16. D) 根据阅读短文可知，作者主要描述了北美地区不同印第安部落的不同的生活方式 。
故选项D为正确答案。
17. B) 此题为推断题。根据文章第一段可知，早在一千年前Hopi和Zuni两支北美印第安部落就用一种砖坯“adobe”来建造房屋，高可达四层楼高，有居住室还有储藏室，颇像现代的公寓，故选项B（高度发达）为正确答案。
以下为关联文档：
中考英语阅读理解题技巧中考英语阅读理解题技巧一、养成良好阅读心态阅读时过于紧张、思想开小差等消极因素会妨碍大脑的正常思维，而保持心绪安定，精神专一等良好的阅读习惯则能大大提高大脑的思维...
12月大学英语四级考试总体评析关于作文： 选题意义： 这个题目属于社会类话题，但是与大学生的生活密切相关，应该在预料之中，充满着时代气息。从结构和语言表达上来说，难度不大。本次作文的选题是非常具有现实意义...
08年12月大学英语四级A卷Part I Writing (30minutes) 注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上。 Part II Reading prehension (Skimming and Scanning)(15 minutes) Directions: In this part, you will he 15 m...
英语四级人机对话电脑“卡壳”机考不如笔试昨天，教育部首次在全国50个学校试点英语(Q吧)四级机考。中山大学、广州大学饮“头啖汤”，两校各有100名学生与电脑面对面考英语四级，因前天已参加笔试，考生最终成绩将以两次考试...
大学英语四级考试机考改革12月21日正式启动就像托福考试从笔试过渡到完全机考一样，大学英语(Q吧)四六级也开始了机考改革。今天(21日)上午，全国56所高校首次试行英语四级考试机考。本市复旦大学、上海交大和上海大学等...
阅读理解易错点拨垂径定理是“圆”一章的重要内容。它揭示了垂直于弦的直径和这条弦以及这条弦所对的两条弧之间的内在关系，是圆的轴对称性的具体化；它不仅是证明线段相等、角相等、弧相等、垂...
2007英语四级篇章词汇阅读篇要顺利的通过新四级，阅读能力可说是重中之中，而篇章词汇阅读更是一大难点。它要求我们了解所给出词汇的意思，词性，相关词组，短语，固定搭配等；还有句子结构，通过上下文来进行理解，最重...
大学英语四级考试机考改革21日正式启动就像托福考试从笔试过渡到完全机考一样，大学英语四六级也开始了机考改革。今天(21日)上午，全国56所高校首次试行英语四级考试机考。本市复旦大学、上海交大和上海大学等高校的...
英语四级首次机考跟读环节迫使“哑巴开口”荆楚网消息 (楚天金报) 昨日上午，全国54所高校首次进行了英语四级试点机考。我省武大、华中科大、武汉工程大学等8所高校的近千名考生，在20日进行完常规的英语四级考试后，获得...
