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　　I came to live where I am now between Wounded Knee Greek and Grass Greek. Others came too, and we made these little grey house of logs that you see, and they are square. It is a bad way to live, for there can be no power in a square.

　　You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the respectful circle of the nation, and so long as the circle was unbroken, the people were getting rich. The flowering tree was the living center of the circle, and the circle of the four quarters nursed it. The east gave peace and light, the south gave warmth, the west gave rain, and the north with its cold and strong wind gave strength and continuous power. This knowledge came to us from the outer world with our belief. Everything the Power of the World does is done in a cirle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, blows. Birds make their nests in circle, for theirs is the same belief as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same, and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Our places were like the rests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nation's circle, a nest of marry nests, where the Great Spirit meant for us to nurse our children.

　　But the Wasichus( Indian word for “white people” ) have put us in these square boxes. Our power is gone and we are dying, for the power is not in us any more. You can look at our boys and see how it is with us. Where we were living by the power of the circle in the way we should, boys were men at twelve or thirteen years of age. But now it takes them very much longer to be full-grown.

1．According to the passage, the Indians ________.

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A．don't have modem instruments in their homes

B．refuse to move from round places

C．lived in round places, but were forced to live in square houses

D．lived in round places, but then decided to move into square houses

2．Two things being compared in the passage are ________.

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A．the Indians' past and present living conditions

B．people and nature

C．the Indians' past and modern beliefs

D．the Indians' old and new living way

3．The “four quarters” in paragraph 2 refers to ________.

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A．the four corners of the Indians

B．the four directions

C．the four seasons

D．the four kinds of natural power

4．According to the author, once the Indians moved into square houses, ________.

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A．everyone was not happy

B．they forgot the old way of life

C．they had to move to other houses

D．boys took more time to grow into men

Answer 1

答案：C;A;B;D
解析：

1．C　导解：从第一段和第二段第一句可知． 　　2．A　导解：此文是把印第安人过去与现在的生活环境进行比较． 　　3．B　导解：本小题考查词义．由上下文得知此处指方向，下文有“东、西、南、北”的具体描述． 　　4．D　导解：文中最后两句是信息．