【正文】 closest in meaning to consider announce increase adjust 30. Why does the passage mention New York City in paragraph 2 ? It was a major center for the invention of new technology. It had a significant concentration of performing, posing, and music business activity. It had the broadest range of audiences of any city in the United States. It was the source of a popular regional style of music. 31. What is the new development that the author discusses in paragraph 3 ? A blending of traditional musical styles occurred. Popular music performers began to avoid using elements of traditional music. The center of the recording industry moved south. Music styles formerly known only to a few people became 10 known to many people. 32. The word previously in the passage is closest in meaning to before there inexpensively significantly 33. The word era in the passage is closest in meaning to period nation movement book About ten percent of the world39。s, the long, slender coastal region presented both a favorable and a forbidding environment. The sea and the rivers held many resources, but to exploit them required the development of super craft to navigate waters that were often stormy and rough. The forests were rich with game and many edible plant foods, but the vegetation of much of the area was so dense that land travel was extremely difficult, and large parts of the heavily forested foothills and rugged mountains were unsuitable for human settlements. Villages instead were located along the rivers, on the shores of bays and lowlying offshore islands, and occasionally even at sheltered locations fronting on the open ocean. It is estimated that the Northwest Coast of the 140039。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? Streetcars Schools Cultural activities Roads and highways 61. In paragraph 2, the author characterizes life in urban munities as dangerous petitive increasingly expensive constantly changing 62. According to the passage, New Orleans differed from Birmingham in size age geography industry 18 63. It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following areas of the United States was the most urbanized at the end of the 180039。s traditional gardens art architecture music 11. The author mentions the area39。s harsh climate. Their culture was heavily influenced by the culture of Mexico. 2. The climate of the Northwest Coast region is generally warm and dry extremely cold neither very hot nor very cold constantly changing 3. The word game in the passage is closest in meaning to sport tricks wood animals 4. According to the passage, what probably discouraged people from trying to go from one part of the Northwest Coast region to another? Large areas thick with bushes and trees Vast fields of broken ice Inability to understand other languages Disagreements over hunting areas 5. According to the passage, the Native Americans of the Northwest Coast region generally did not live in villages on offshore islands close to rivers in the mountains 6. The phrase teemed with in the passage is closest in meaning to varied according to peted for were bined with were full of 7. The author implies that the Native Americans of the Northwest Coast differed from most other highly 3 developed societies of the time because they did not depend on agriculture they lacked good means of transportation their society arose in an arctic climate their society was based on ownership of domestic animals. 8. The word they in the passage refers to land and sea mammals wild plant foods the people of the Northwest Coast agricultural people 9. All of the following are mentioned in the passage as being important to the people of the Northwest Coast EXCEPT boatbuilding skills forest plants for food wood for building durable homes plentiful supplies of seafood 10. It is clear that the author has a high opinion of the region39。s The problems associated with urban areas in the United States The history of the urbanization of the United States 57. According to the pass