单选题
It snowed furiously the night before I stepped over the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. It was mid-May, so the snow was wet and not dry enough to stick. But the moisture stained the soft soil at the trailhead a dove gray and spiced the air with the scent of ponderosa pine. The trail I was following, the New Hance, didn"t dawdle but marched directly to the canyon"s edge, took a sharp turn, then plunged straight downhill, a no-nonsense approach to reaching its destination: the bottom of the canyon and the banks of the Colorado River nearly a vertical mile below.
It may seem implausible to the more than four million of us who come each year to marvel at the Grand Canyon, but this magnificent and seemingly uninhabitable geology, exalted since 1919 as a national park, was indeed once a home. For at least 10,000 years people lived, loved, traded, even farmed in the canyon"s depths. They marked it with names, wove its temple-like peaks and bluffs into their lore, and breathed their spirits into every spring, every marbled cliff and large rocks. And then, a mere century ago, newcomers to the canyon, overcome by its beauty, decided that no human habitation was ever again to mar the canyon park. Landforms that carded a name, a spirit of the past, were named anew.
Above us castle-like bluffs and terraces of rainbow-hued soils rose to the sky like a geological cathedral. We were dwarfs on a desert beach—but dwarfs with a princely flood of water at our feet. So we flung off our packs, dropped our trekking poles, and, surely like those first people to reach the river"s edge, plunged into the cool waters that had carved this canyon, the grandest canyon on Earth.
Native people are, in fact, still farming in the Grand Canyon, if not in the park itself. In Havasu Canyon, a narrow side spur, the Havasupai, or Havasu "Baaja—"people of the blue-green water"—end fields where they"ve lived for at least 700 years. About 450 of the tribe"s 650 members live here in the village of Supai. There are no roads or cars, so almost everyone takes the eight-mile trail in by foot, horse, or mule.
The trail switch backed down the rim in long, steep turns, then merged gently into Havasu Canyon. Watahomigie, a slim-faced local fellow, pulled up his horse and pointed far up the canyon, among the pi
It may seem implausible to the more than four million of us who come each year to marvel at the Grand Canyon, but this magnificent and seemingly uninhabitable geology, exalted since 1919 as a national park, was indeed once a home. For at least 10,000 years people lived, loved, traded, even farmed in the canyon"s depths. They marked it with names, wove its temple-like peaks and bluffs into their lore, and breathed their spirits into every spring, every marbled cliff and large rocks. And then, a mere century ago, newcomers to the canyon, overcome by its beauty, decided that no human habitation was ever again to mar the canyon park. Landforms that carded a name, a spirit of the past, were named anew.
Above us castle-like bluffs and terraces of rainbow-hued soils rose to the sky like a geological cathedral. We were dwarfs on a desert beach—but dwarfs with a princely flood of water at our feet. So we flung off our packs, dropped our trekking poles, and, surely like those first people to reach the river"s edge, plunged into the cool waters that had carved this canyon, the grandest canyon on Earth.
Native people are, in fact, still farming in the Grand Canyon, if not in the park itself. In Havasu Canyon, a narrow side spur, the Havasupai, or Havasu "Baaja—"people of the blue-green water"—end fields where they"ve lived for at least 700 years. About 450 of the tribe"s 650 members live here in the village of Supai. There are no roads or cars, so almost everyone takes the eight-mile trail in by foot, horse, or mule.
The trail switch backed down the rim in long, steep turns, then merged gently into Havasu Canyon. Watahomigie, a slim-faced local fellow, pulled up his horse and pointed far up the canyon, among the pi
单选题
Which of the following is NOT one of the features about the Grand Canyon?
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 第4段描述说650 Havasupai人中有450人住在苏派村，这些数据说明大峡谷的居民显然不多，B与文意不符，故选B。第2段第1句讲到每年有400多万人到大峡谷游览，无不惊叹于大峡谷的美景，A中的enchanting对应原文的magnificent；第3段第1句介绍说有城堡般的峭壁(bluffs)，C与之对应；第8段第1句话介绍那儿土地很肥沃，D也是特点之一。
单选题
Which of the following about Havasu Canyon is INCORRECT?
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 第4段第3句说650 Havasupai人中有450人住在苏派村，C中的Half of the Havasupai说法错误，故本题答案是C。根据第4段最后一句可知，该处没有公路，也没有汽车，几乎每个人都是靠步行、骑马或骡子，可见那儿的交通很不方便，A说法正确；第6段最后一句说到他们只剩下位于Havasu Canyon的518公顷土地可供居住，故排除B；第8段第1句介绍，游客和马匹是禁止进入耕地的，D与之相符。
单选题
The sentence "people tend to look away or right through you..." in the 7th paragraph implies that ______.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 根据第7段第1句话可知，由于“我”是白人(paleface)，和那些驱逐他们的那些人一样，所以当“我”进入布满灰尘的苏派村时，人们会扭过头去或是视而不见，表明苏派村人对曾经驱赶他们的白人仍怀有怨恨，因此D符合题意。