单选题

The Cherokee Nation

Long before the white man came to America, the land belonged to the American Indian nations. The nation of the Cherokees lived in what is now the southeastern part of the United States.
After the white man came, the Cherokees copied many of their ways. One Cherokee named Sequoyah saw how important reading and writing was to the white man. He decided to invent a way to write clown the spoken Cherokee language. He began by making word pictures. For each word he drew a picture. But that proved impossible--there were just too many words. Then he took the 85 sounds that made up the language. Using his own imagination and an English spelling book, Sequoyah invented a sign for each sound. His alphabet proved amazingly easy to learn. Before long, many Cherokees knew how to read and write in their own language. By 1828, they were even printing their own newspaper.
In 1830, the U.S. Congress passed a law. It allowed the government to remove Indians from their lands. The Cherokees refused to go. They had lived on their lands for centuries. It belonged to them. Why should they go to a strange land far beyond the Mississippi River?
The army was sent to drive the Cherokees out. Soldiers surrounded their villages and marched them at gunpoint into the western territory. The sick, the old and the small children went in carts, along with their belongings. The rest of the people marched on foot or rode on horseback. It was November, yet many of them still wore their summer clothes. Cold and hungry, the Cherokees were quickly exhausted by the hardships of the journey. Many dropped dead and were buried by the roadside. When the last group arrived in their new home in March 1839, more than 4,000 had died. It was indeed a march of death.

单选题 The Cherokee Nation used to live______.

单选题 One of the ways that Sequoyah copied from the white man is the way of______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 问题问：“Sequoyah从白人那里学来的一个方法是什么?”答案查找线索词：Sequoyah和the white man(白人)。第2段的段首句说“白人来了以后，切诺基人照搬了很多他们的行为方式”，然后接着说“一个被称为Sequoyah的切诺基人看到阅读和写作对白人来说很重要，于是决定要发明一种能记录下切诺基语口语的方法”，可见Sequoyah从白人那里学会了用符号记录语言。

单选题 A law was passed in 1830 to______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 问题问：“1830年通过的法律的内容是什么?”借助答案线索词“1830”查找答案相关句。很快发现第3段包含该年代。段首句说“1830年，美国国会通过了一条法律”，接着的一句又说“该法律允许政府把印第安人从他们的土地上赶走。”A说允许印第安人留在他们自己的土地上，B说派军队去帮助切诺基人，C说强迫切诺基人迁往西部，D说禁止切诺基人阅读自己的报纸。相比之下，C的说法最接近原文。

单选题 When the Cherokees began to leave their lands,______.

单选题 Many Cherokees died on their way to their new home mainly because______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 问题问：“许多切诺基人死在了他们去往新家园的路上，这主要是因为什么原因?”在第4段的后半部分中不难发现“Cold and hungry，the Cherokees were quickly exhausted by the hardships of the journey”，该句说：“又冷又饿的切诺基人很快就被旅途的艰辛弄得筋疲力尽。”对比四个备选答案的语义，不难判断C“没有足够的食物和衣服”符合题意。