【题目】完形填空

Early Native American groups lived in different cultural areas. Their environments had 1 resources. Each group made particular products or developed certain skills, based on their own 2 . As they perfected their skills, 3 exciting began to happen. For the first time in their history, they had more things than they 4 .

They wouldn’t let their products go to 5 , of course. When Native American groups began to communicate with each other, they began to 6 things with others. The 7 they traded goods and services without using any form of money was called bartering(以物易物). Thanks to bartering, people began to enjoy a better 8 of life. To barter with others meant that work became much 9 . No one group had to work as hard as before to make or find everything they needed for survival.

Native American groups would often travel long distances for the chance to 10 with each other. In between trading times, they would 11 or collect extra products. They kept them especially for the 12 of bartering with other native groups at their trade meetings.

Another 13 of trading between cultural areas was that people could enjoy products that were 14 to make with the resources in their own 15 . For example, people from the Desert Southwest area 16 tools made from whalebone(鲸骨). There was no whalebone available in the 17 . However, they could get it from the natives living in the Pacific Northwest area.

Some people 18 use bartering today to get things they need. You might 19 to do the dishes for your brother if he will take you to the movies. Especially in hard economic 20 people return to the age-old way of getting things they need.

【1】A. strange B. ordinary C. similar D. different

【2】A. skills B. interests C. resources D. customs

【3】A. everything B. something C. anything D. nothing

【4】A. found B. collected C. needed D. sold

【5】A. market B. town C. waste D. charity

【6】A. buy B. share C. produce D. save

【7】A. way B. idea C. plan D. study

【8】A. variety B. habit C. quantity D. quality

【9】A. harder B. dirtier C. easier D. nicer

【10】A. greet B. trade C. work D. play

【11】A. use B. create C. send D. advertise

【12】A. goal B. value C. purpose D. point

【13】A. choice B. trouble C. benefit D. pleasure

【14】A. illegal B. necessary C. impossible D. natural

【15】A. desert B. trade C. group D. area

【16】A. designed B. wanted C. discovered D. invented

【17】A. water B. sea C. desert D. land

【18】A. yet B. still C. even D. never

【19】A. fear B. earn C. offer D. refuse

【20】A. developments B. changes C. disadvantages D. times

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