单选题
{{B}}Passage Two {{/B}} As many as one
thousand years ago in the Southwest, the Hopi and Zuni tribes 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 storerooms 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 have realized since they
called them "pueblos", which is Spanish for town. The
people of the pueblos raise what are called "the tree 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, with
water scarce. The Hopi and Zuni brought water. The Hopi and Zuni brought water
from streams to their fields and gardens through irrigation 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 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 the bison, commonly called the buffalo.
Its meat was the chief food of these tribes, and its hide was used to make their
clothing and the covering of their tents and tepees.
单选题
It can be inferred from the passage that the dwelling of the Hopi and
Zuni were______.
A. very small
B. highly advanced
C. conveniently located
D. extremely fragile
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 第一段第二句说“Their homes looked remarkably like modern apartment houses”，可见他们的住房是非常先进的(highly advanced)。B正确。
单选题
The author uses the phrase "the three sisters" to refer to______.