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Do you know 1)Inuit? Let me tell you something about their 1________.
The Inuit live near the 2)North Pole. There are only two 2________ here, winter and summer. There are no spring 3________ autumn there. The winter nights are 4________. You can't 5________ the sun for more than two months, even at noon. The summer days are long. For more than two months, the sun never 6________ and there is no night.
The Inuit have 7________ clothes. They make their clothes from the skin of animals. From these skins they make coats, caps and 8________.
Near the North Pole trees can't grow, for it is too 9________ there. The Inuit 10________ make their houses from skins, snow or stones. When they 11________ in storm and can't 12________ home, they make house of snow. They 13________ these snow houses when the storm is 14________.
Life is 15________ for the Inuit, but they still like to live there.
1. A. work??? B.life??? C.holiday??? D.families
2. A. weather??? B.seasons??? C.months??? D.years
3. A. not??? B.or??? C.and??? D.as
4. A. short??? B.warm??? C.long??? D.cold
5. A. see??? B.watch??? C.look??? D.look at
6. A. rises??? B.goes up??? C.drops??? D.goes down
7. A. beautiful??? B.metal??? C.warm??? D.cool
8. A. goods??? B.drinks??? C.medicine??? D.shoes
9. A. cold??? B.hot??? C.dry??? D.wet
10. A. will??? B. should??? C. never??? D. have to
11. A. go out??? B.go over??? C.keep on??? D.get on
12. A. get back??? B. got off??? C.get on??? D.get in
13. A. make??? B.leave??? C.stay??? D.break
14. A. over??? B.coming??? C.going??? D.hard
15. A. easy??? B.interesting??? C.hard??? D.lucky
1) Inuit [??nju?t] n.因紐特人
例句:Whales have long been central part of Inuit life in Greenland.
在格陵蘭,獵鯨是長期以來因紐特人生活的中心內(nèi)容。
2) North Pole北極
例句:The North Pole has no land, only thick ice.
北極沒有陸地,只有厚厚的冰層。
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因紐特人生活在北極地區(qū),分布在從西伯利亞、美國阿拉斯加到格陵蘭的北極圈內(nèi)外,先后創(chuàng)制了用拉丁字母和斯拉夫字母拼寫的文字。
因紐特人主要表現(xiàn)出黃種人的種族特征。他們不喜歡被稱為“愛斯基摩人”,因?yàn)檫@是他們的敵人對他們嘲笑式的稱呼。
【語篇解讀角】
本文介紹了因紐特人的生活情況,包括那里的氣候,以及為適應(yīng)這種特殊氣候而形成的因紐特人的特殊生活習(xí)慣。
【答案詳析】
1. B。根據(jù)下文得知,這里介紹的是因紐特人的生活(life),與文章的最后一句話形成了首尾呼應(yīng)。
2. B。根據(jù)下文的winter和summer判斷可知是季節(jié)。
3. B。表示對兩者否定時,我們用or而不用and。
4. C。由后一句話可推斷答案。冬夜很長,幾乎看不到太陽,也就是沒有白天,這正是北極的氣候特征。
5. A。see表示“看”的結(jié)果,watch和look都表示“看”的動作。
6. D。夏天白晝長,幾乎沒有夜晚,太陽從不下山,所以選go down。
7. C。由上文中那里特殊的氣候可知,他們要穿上暖和的衣服才能抵御嚴(yán)寒。
8. D。這里是指用動物皮來做衣服鞋帽。
9. A。寒冷是北極的特點(diǎn),可知也是樹木無法生長的原因。
10. D。由下文可知,客觀原因使他們不得不用特殊的材料來建房。
11. A。由下文可知,此處說的是當(dāng)因紐特人出去后在外面遇到風(fēng)暴回不了家時的辦法。
12. A??膳c上一個選項(xiàng)一起理解。
13. B。用雪造房是因?yàn)橛龅斤L(fēng)暴回不了家,風(fēng)暴過后自然要離開雪房子。
14. A。be over表示結(jié)束。
15. C。通過后面的but可知前面是描述他們生活不好的方面,故選hard。