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I came to live here where I am now between Wounded Knee Greek and Grass Greek。Others came too, and we made the little grey hous of logs that you e, and they are square. It is a bad way to live, for there can be no power in a square.You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is becau the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the respectful circle of the nation, and so long as the circle was unbroken, the people were getting rich. The flowering tree was the living center of the circle, and the circle of the four quarters nurd it. The east gave peace and light, the south gave warmth, the west gave rain, and the north with its cold and strong wind gave strength and continuous power. This knowledge came to us from the outer world with our brief. Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. Birds make their nests in circle, for theirs are the same as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same, and both are round. Even the asons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.Our places were like the nests of birds, and the were always t in a circle, the nation’s circle, a nest of many nests, where the Great Spirit meant for us to nur our children.But the “white people” have put us in the square boxes. Our power is gone and we are dying, for the power is not in us any more. You can look at our boys and e how it is with us. Where we were living by the power of the circle in the way we should, boys were men at twelve or thirteen years of age. But now it takes them very much longer to grow up.小题1:According to the passage, the Indians _______.A．don’t have modern instruments in their homesB．refud to move from round placesC．lived in round places, but were forced to live in square housD．lived in round places, but then decided to move into square hous小题2:Two things being compared in the passage are _______.A．the Indians’ past and prent living conditionsB．the Indians’ past and modern beliefsC．the Indians’ old and new power D．people and nature小题3:In the cond paragraph “the four quarters” refers to _______.A．the four rooms of the Indian’s hou B．the four kinds of natural powerC．the four asons D．the four directions小题4:According to the author, once the Indians moved into square hous, _______.A．they had to move to other hous B．boys took more time to grow into menC．they forgot the old way of lifeD．everyone was not happy 题型：未知难度：其他题型

答案

小题1:C小题2:A小题3:D小题4:B

解析

小题1:细节推断题。根据文章中第一段以及第二段中：You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle……可以看出，作者在文章中叙述了自己现实生活中的感触：生活在一个固定的小圈子里，也就是所谓的四方木屋里，正如自然界中的万物一样。故此可以推断出the Indians的现实，进而得出结论。小题2:细节查找题。根据文章的行文，尤其是文章的第一段及第二段可以看出，作者主要是借助于：印第安人的过去以及现在的生活情况对比，进而推动文章的进展。小题3:根据文章第二段中“The flowering tree was the living center of the circle, and the circle of the four quarters nurd it”以及最后一句话可以推测出答案：小题4:细节查找题。根据文章最后一段中: Where we were living by the power of the circle in the way we should, boys were men at twelve or thirteen years of age.以及最后一句中的but now 关键词，由此可知印第安人的遭遇。尤其是孩子们艰辛的成长历程。

考点

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   健康环保类文章常是介绍科学知识、生活常识和环境保护方面的短文。阅读此类短文要以现象或事物为中心进行思考，理解现象产生的原因、条件和客观规律等。同时要抓住事物的特征、用途和相互关系等。科普环保类文章一般为说明文，从结构上看大致可分为三个部分：   第一部分一般是文章的首段，主要用来提出文章的主题，即文章想要阐述、说明的主要内容；   第二部分是文章的主体，可由若干个段落组成，对文章的主题进行展开说明；   第三部分是结尾段，对文章的主题进行归纳总结。这类文章多用一般现在时，而且一般多使用客观性词语表述。有时为了强调客观性，也常使用被动语态。   从近几年的考试题来看，科普环保类的文章越来越与人们的实际生活相接近。由于此类文章缺乏故事情节，很多同学对此类文章感到费解。但一般的科普类文章都是就事论事，需要逻辑推理和想象的时候较少，因此此类阅读题也没有同学们想象中的那么难，只要多加训练，就能较好地答题。【阅读策略】 1、概要(Summarizing)：  阅完材料后，将所阅材料浓缩，摘要，做出所阅材料的书面或口头梗概。 2、组织(Organization)：  阅读后根据阅读内容，识别观点、人物、事件之间的关系以及文章的结构关系。如：时间关系、比较或对比关系、相关关系及因果关系等。