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As many as one thousand years ago in the Southwesr, the Hopi and Zuni Indians 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 hogh 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 towns.
The people of the pueblos raised what are called (the three sisters) – corn, beans and squash. They made excellent pottery and wore marvelous baskets, some so fine that they could hold water. The Southwest has alsways been a dry country, where water is (scare). The Hopi and Zuni brought water from streams to their fields and garden through irrigation ditches. Water was so important that it played a major role in their religion. They developed elaborate ceremonies and religious rituals to bring rain.
The way of life if less-settle groups was simpler and more strongly influenced by nature. Small tribes such as the Shoshone 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 great whales. They lived right on the frozen seas in the shelters called igloos built of blocks of packed snow. When summer came, they fished for salmon and hunted the lordly caaribou.
The Cheyenne, Pawnee, and Sioux tribes, known as Plain Indians, lived on the grassland between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River. They hunted bison, commonly called 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 tipis.
1. What does the passage mainly dicuss?
A. The architecture of early American Indian buildings
B. The movement of American Indians across North America
C. Ceremoies and rituals of American Indians
D. The way of life of American Indian tribes in early North America
2. According to the passage, the Hopi and Zuni typically built their homes
A. in valleys
B. next to streams
C. on open plains
D. against cliffs
3. The word (they) refers to
A. goods
B. buildings
C. cliffs
D. enemies
4. The author used the phrase (the three sisters to refer) to
A. Hopi woman
B. Family members
C. Important crops
D. Rain ceremonies
5. The word (scare) is closest in meaning to
A. limited
B. hidden
C. pure
D. necessary
6. Which of the following is true of the Shoshone and Ute?
A. They were not as settled as Hopi and Zuni
B. They hunted caribou
C. They built their homes with adobe
D. They did not have mant religious ceremonies
7. According to the passage, which of the following tribes lived in the grassland?
A. The Shoshone and Ute
B. The Cheyenne and Sioux
C. The Hopi and Zuni
D. The Pawnee and Inuit
8. Which of the following animals was most important to the Plain Indians?
A. the salmom
B. The caribou
C. The seal
D. The buffalo
9. Which of the following is not mentioned by the author as a dwelling place of early North American?
A. Log cabins
B. Adobe house
C. Tipis
D. Igloos
10. The author gave an explanation for all of the following words EXCEPT
A. adobe
B. pueblos
C. caribou
D. bison