【正文】 140039。s had a population of about 130,000 and thus was one of the most heavily populated areas of North America north of Mexico. The people had no agriculture but, over thousands of years, had developed techniques and equipment to exploit their environment, basing their economy on fishing in streams and coastal waters that teemed with salmon, halibut, and other varieties of fish。s great art styles. 1. Which of the following is the main point the author makes about Native Americans of the Northwest Coast? They raised crops unique to North America. They made good use of the environment to build a successful society. Their technology helped them 2 survive in the area39。 social structures. While cities in both countries are ethnically diverseCanadian munities, in fact, have the higher proportion of immigrants in the United States there are pronounced economic contrasts between central city and suburban residents. That is, there has been much less “flight to the suburbs” by middleine Canadians. As a result, the Canadian city shows greater social stability, employment opportunities, and urban amenities than its United States counterpart. In particular, it does not have the rivalry from well defined petitive “outer cities” of suburbia that so spread and fragment United States metropolitan plexes. 12. What does the passage mainly discuss? Features that characterize the typical North American city The development of suburbs in North America Major differences between 5 United States and Canadian cities Population migration toward newer cities 13. What does the author mean by referring to the truly North American city as more a myth than a reality? Commonly studied histories of cities in North America distort reality. Cities in Canada and the United States exhibit cultural similarities. There is no city that can be considered representative of all North American cities. Eastern and western cities display greater differences than the differences between Canadian and United States cities. 14. According to paragraph 2, which of the following statements about the typical Canadian city is true? Canadian cities are spread out over a large area. Canadian cities vary little in size. People and functions in Canadian cities are centrally concentrated. Canadian cities have taller buildings than other countries. 15. The phrase the rule in the passage is closest in meaning to spacious practical wellbuilt usual 6 16. It can be inferred from the passage that Canadian cities are marked by narrow streets open spaces an absence of skyscrapers a coherent central area 17. The word apparent in the passage is closest in meaning to unique obvious decreasing dependent 18. The word pronounced in the passage is closest in meaning to strong recent divisive growing 19. It can be inferred from the passage that, when pared to their Canadian counterparts, middleine people in the United States tend to move away from city centers more frequently represent a greater range of ine prefer living closer to urban amenities dominate the older eastern cities 20. The word it in the passage refers to flight to the suburbs Canadian city social stability United States counterpart 21. The word fragment in the passage is closest in meaning to 7 hold down break up characterize distinguish 22. Which of the following does the author mention as a similarity between Canadian and United States cities? The size of the land area The quality of mass transportation The density of buildings in city centers The resistance to constructing new roadways The 192039。s: it had Broadway and Schubert Alley, center of the American popular musical theater, and it had Tin Pan Alley, center of the songwriting business and the stillpowerful sheet music publishers. The recording studios and radio works were also based in New York. In addition, recordings and radio opened up new possibilities for a striking new development. They made available kinds of popular music heard previously only in limited geographical areas or by specific ethnic and social groupsespecially the blues, gospel songs, and jazz of African Americans and the traditional music of the southern Appalachian 8 Mountains and other rural areas of the southern and western United States. The latter music was not to affect the mainstream of American popular music until much later, but the former influenced American popular music of the 192039。s deserts are posed of sand dunes, which are driven across the desert by the wind. Sand grains march across the desert floor under the influence of strong winds by a process known as saltation. The grains of sand bee airborne for a moment, and upon landing they dislodge additional sand grains, which repeat the process. In this manner, sand dunes engulf everything in their path, including structures made by people, and pose a major problem in the construction and m