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When Lewis and Clark stepped onto the Weippe Prairie in present-day Idaho in September 1805, they
met the Nez Perce Indians. In the following years, the white explorers (探险者) began to fight with the
Indians for their land. Some Nez Perce chiefs signed agreements with the U.S. government, selling part
of their lands. But the government always broke those agreements and demanded more land.
Other chiefs refused to go along with the government"s plans. The most famous was Chief Joseph,
whose people lived in the Wallowa Valley(present-day Oregon). "In order to have all people understand
how much land we owned," he once explained,"my father planted poles around it and said: "Inside is the
home of my people…It circled around the graves (坟墓) of our fathers, and we will never give up these
graves to any man. "
But in 1874, the U.S. government declared the valley open for white settlement and ordered the Nez
Perce onto a reservation (保留地). Seeing that resistance was useless, Chief Joseph agreed to move.
Later, fighting broke out between the Nez Perce and U.S. soldiers. Chief Joseph tried to lead his people
to Canada, winning several battles against the soldiers during their flight. But finally, he was forced to give
in.
B. Dug Bar.
C. Joseph Canyon Viewpoint.
D. Chief Looking Glass Camp.
B. They have become a historic site.
C. They have become much smaller.
D. They were limited to the Wallowa Valley.
B. keep their land
C. turn their place into a graveyard
D. build their homes around the poles
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试题【阅读理解。The Home of My People When Lewis and Clark stepped onto the Weippe Pra】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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branch of the great Appalachian family, and can be seen to the west rising up to a noble height and towering
over the surrounding country. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and
print their beautiful shapes on the clear evening sky, but sometimes when it is cloudless, gray steam gathers
around the top of the mountains which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will shine and light up like a crown
of glory (华丽的皇冠).
At the foot of these mountains, a traveler may see light smoke going up from a village.
In that village, and in one of the houses (which, to tell the exact truth, was sadly time-worn and weather-
beaten), there lived many years ago, a simple, good-natured fellow by the name of Rip Van Winkle.
Rip"s great weakness was a natural dislike of all kinds of money-making labor. It could not be from lack
of diligence (勤劳), for he could sit all day on a wet rock and fish without saying a word, even though he
was not encouraged by a single bite. He would carry a gun on his shoulder for hours, walking through woods
and fields to shoot a few birds or squirrels. He would never refuse to help a neighbor, even in the roughest
work. The women of the village, too, used to employ him to do such little jobs as their less helpful husbands
would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to everybody"s business but his own.
If left to himself, he would have whistled ( 吹口哨) life away in perfect satisfaction; but his wife was
always mad at him for his idleness (懒散). Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was endlessly going, so that
he was forced to escape to the outside of the house-the only side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked
husband.
B. They are very high and beautiful in this area.
C. They can be seen from the Appalachian family.
D. They gather beautiful clouds in blue and purple.
B. idle and hates all kinds of jobs
C. simple, idle but very dutiful
D. gentle, helpful but a little idle
B. is afraid of hens
C. loves his wife
D. is afraid of his wife
B. A Mountain Village.
C. Rip Van Winkle.
D. A Dutiful Husband.
was 7:0 pm. Jane went off with her husband, expecting a merry evening of wine, food, and song.
By 9:45, everybody was having great fun, but no food had appeared. Jane and David were restless.
Other guests began whispering that they, too, were starving. But no one wanted to leave, just in case some
food was about to appear. By 11:00, there was still no food, and everyone was completely off their heads.
Jane and David left hungry and angry.
Their experience suggests that the words and the printed invitations need to be made clearer. Everyone
reads and understands the invitations differently. Most of us would agree that 6:30-8:30pm means drinks
only, go out to dinner afterwards; 8:00 pm or 8:30 pm means possible dinner, but 9:30 pm and any time
thereafter means no food, oat beforehand, roll up late.
But this is not always the case. If asked to a students" party at 6:30 pm, it is normal for guests not to
appear before midnight, if at all, and no one cares. Being the first to arrive-looking eager-is social death.
When my mother is asked to a party for 6:30, she likes to be them, if not on lime, then no later than seven.
My age group (late thirties) falls somewhere between the two, but because we still think we"re young,
we"re probably closer to student-time than grown-up time.
The accepted custom at present is confusing (混乱的), sometimes annoying, and it often means you
may go home hungry, but it does lend every party that precious element (成分) of surprise.
B. crazy
C. curious
D. hopeless
B. party invitations can be confusing
C. people should ask for food at parties
D. birthday parties for middle-aged people are dull
B. particularly thoughtful
C. friendly and polite
D. socially unacceptable
B. care little about the party time
C. haven" t really grown up yet
D. like surprises at parties
B. It" s wise to eat something before going to a party.
C. It" s important to follow social rules of party-going.
D. It" s necessary to read invitations carefully.
from its immigrant community, complete with dancing and other forms of amusement from their native
countries. "Toronto is truly multicultural (多元文化的)," he said in a newspaper interview. "It"s a city from
many places, and a multicultural marketplace will help Torontonians to understand and appreciate the rich
variety of cultural groups in our city."
Salvatori, aged 23, will soon complete his studies at the University of Toronto. He was eleven years old
when he came to Canada from Italy with his parents. "Most of Toronto"s immigrants are from lands where
the marketplace has always been part of daily life," he said.
Salvatori has been interested in getting an open-air market for Toronto for the last three years. This year,
with the help of two fellow students, he prepared a proposal on the subject and presented it to the city"s
Executive Committee, asking for their support. The proposal pointed out Toronto"s rich variety of national
groups, "whose customs include market shopping."
Under a Canadian government program for multiculturalism, the three students have received two thousand
dollars with which they will do a study to find out whether Toronto"s immigrant businessmen would support
and open-air market. They hope the merchants will support the plan strongly. "A study done earlier this year
showed that 90 percent of shoppers would be in favor of it," Salvatori said. "At first it would be an experiment.
But we think it will prove to be good business for the merchants, as well as a tourist attraction."
C. To inspire its immigrant community
B. To keep the cultural variety of the city
D. To satisfy its immigrant merchants
B. to start a marketplace
C. to perform a research
D. to operate a business
B. community service
C. travel industry
D. city planning
B. the plan of an open-air market
C. the request of merchants
D. the attitude of shoppers
of this, most people that craft (手艺) no longer exists.
One of the ways these people wrongly support their view is by pointing to 100-year-old homes which
are still solid, and arguing that it is the craftsmanship that is responsible for their durability (持久性). "Homes
in those days were well-built," they say. No doubt these homes were well-built, but what these people have
done is mix up the quality of material used in the house with the quality of the craftsmanship.
Homes today could be built to last just as long as those old homes if people were willing or able to pay
the price. For example, more people can no longer afford solid oak stairways, although they were once fairly
common in older homes. Nor can they afford the high labor cost of employing a carpenter (木匠) to built
the stairway. Yet if someone can pay the high cost, there are still plenty of carpenters around able to make
those stairways. And not only would these carpenters know how to built them, they would probably do a
better job than carpenters of old.
One thing the modern carpenter has which enables him to do a better job is much more advanced tools.
Such tools as laser beams and power planes help them lay out a house better and make more precision cuts
(精确切割) on the wood. Also, it is not uncommon any more to find carpenters with college degrees and
carpenters with a solid knowledge of mathematics, which would enable them to deal with more difficult
house designs.
The problem of modern quality, then, really boils down to the problem of material, for the modern
carpenter is just as able to produce craftsmanship as the carpenter of fifty years ago, but only if given proper
material.
B. more learned
C. more imaginative
D. more hardworking
B. Carpenters who have college degrees.
C. people who think highly of carpenters of old
D. people who think that modern material is of low quality.
B. It is now expensive to employ a carpenter.
C. Modern houses last as long as the old one.
D. Good carpenters still exist in modern times.
B. Craft, Back to life?
C. History of craftsmanship
D. Carpenters Today and Yesterday
get answers like "Shakespeare," "Samuel Johnson," and "Webster," but none of these men had any effect at
all compared to a man who didn"t even speak English -William the Conqueror.
Before 1066,in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups.
In the west-central region lived the Welsh, who spoke a Celtic language,and in the north lived the Scots,
whose language, though not the same as Welsh, was also Celtic.In the rest of the country lived the Saxons,
actually a mixture of Anglos, Saxons,and other Germanic and Nordic people,who spoke what we now call
Anglo-Saxon (or Old English ), a Germanic language. If this state of affairs had lasted, English today would
be close to German.
But this state of affairs did not last. In 1066 the Normans led by William defeated the Saxons and began
their rule over England.For about a century,French became the official language of England while Old English
became the language of peasants. As a result,English words of politics and the law come from French rather
than German. In some cases,modern English even shows a distinction (区别) between upper-class French
and lower-class Anglo-Saxon in its words.We even have different words for some foods, meat in particular,
depending on whether it is still out in the fields or at home ready to be cooked,which shows the fact that the
Saxon peasants were doing the farming, while the upper-class Normans were doing most of the eating.
When Americans visit Europe for the first time, they usually find Germany more "foreign" than France
because the German they see on signs and advertisements seems much more different from English than
French does.Few realize that the English language is actually Germanic in its beginning and that the French
influences are all the result of one man"s ambition.
B. Nordic and Germanic
C. Celtic and Old English
D. Anglo-Saxon and Germanic
B. president, bread,water
C. bread,field,sheep
D. folk,field,cow
B. They know little of the history of the English language.
C. Many French words are similar to English ones.
D. They know French better than German.
B. The similarity between English and French
C. The rule of England by William the Conqueror.
D. The French influences on the English language.
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