The Cherokee Nation¹

    Long before²the white man came to the America, the land belonged to the American Indian nations. The nation of the Cherokees lived in what is now the southeastern part of theUnited States.

    After the white man came, the Cherokees copied many of their ways. One Cherokee named Sequoyah saw how important reading and writing was to the white man. He decided to invent a way to write down the spoken Cherokee language. He began by making word pictures. For each word he drew a picture. But that proved impossible—there were just too many words. Then he took the 85 sounds that made up the language³. Using his own imagination and an English spelling book, Sequoyah invented a sign for each sound. His alphabet proved amazingly easy to learn. Before long, many Cherokees knew how to read and write in their own language. By l828,they were even printing their own newspaper.

    In 1830,the U.S.Congress⁴ passed a law. It allowed the government to remove Indians from their lands. The Cherokees refused to go. They had lived on their lands for centuries. It belonged to them. Why should they go to a strange land far beyond the Mississippi River⁵?

    The army was sent to drive the Cherokees out. Soldiers surrounded their villages and marched them at gunpoint⁶ into the westem territory. The sick, the old⁷ and the small children went in carts, along with their belongings. The rest of the people marched on foot or rode on horseback. It was November, yet many of them still wore their summer clothes. Cold and hungry, the Cherokees were quickly exhausted by the hardships of the joumey⁸. Many dropped dead and were buried by the roadside. When the last group arrived in their new home in March 1839, more than 4,000 had died. It was indeed a march of death.

词汇：

belong[bɪ"lɒŋ] 属于;归类于

territory ["terətrɪ]领土;版图;领域;范围

amazingly [ə"meɪzɪŋlɪ] 令人惊讶地，十分，非常

belongings [bɪˈlɒŋɪŋz]所有物，财产，财物

march [mɑ:tʃ] 迫使……行进;走过，通过

注释：

1.The Cherokee Nation:（北美印第安人的）彻罗基部落

2. long before:在……以前很久；在……以前已有很长时间。例如：Our ancestors had been livingon this island long before the colonists came.在殖民者到来前我们的祖先已在这个岛上生活了很长时间。注意：before long的意思是“不久以后”，例如：The work will be finished before long.这项工作不久就会完成。

3.that made up the language:构成那种语言的。make up这里表示“组成，构成”，类似的例子还有：Teams from Europe and South America make up the majority of all the participating teams in the World -Cup Final.来自欧洲和南美洲的球队占世界杯决赛全部参赛队的大多数。

4.the U．S．Congress:美国国会，由参议院(Senate)和众议院（the House of Representative）构成。

5．the Mississippi River:密西西比河（美国）

6.at gunpoint:在枪口的威胁下

7.the sick, the old:病人和老人。英语中，定冠词the后跟一个形容词，表示该形容词所描述的一类人，整个词组可作主语或宾语。又如：the dead（死者），the young（年轻人），the rich(富人)，the poor(穷人)等。

8.Cold and hungry, the Cherokees were quickly exhausted by the hardships of the journey.寒冷、饥饿，彻罗基人很快便被艰苦的行程折磨得精疲力竭。这里的cold and hungry是形容词词组，放在主句前面，充当状语。像这样的前置形容词词组往往可表示伴随状况、因果关系等。例如：Tired and thirsty, he arrived at the campsite at last.他又累又渴，终于抵达了营地。Somewhat embarrassed, Mr. Jackson left the room in silence.杰克逊先生感觉有些难堪，悄悄地离开了房间。

A law was passed in 1830 to——.

A:allow the Cherokees to stay where they were B:send the army to help the Cherokees C:force the Cherokees to move westward D:forbid the Cherokees to read their newspaper

The World Health Organization says as many as 10 million persons worldwide may have the virus(病毒)that causes AIDS. Experts believe about 350 thousand persons have the disease. And one million more may get it in the next five years. In the United States, about 50000 persons have died with AIDS. The country’s top medical official says more than 90 percent of all Americans who had the AIDS virus five years ago are dead.
There is no cure for AIDS and no vaccine (疫苗) medicine to prevent it. However, researchers know much more about AIDS than they did just a few years ago. We now know that AIDS is caused by a virus. The virus invades healthy cells including white blood cells that are part of our defense system against disease. It takes control of the healthy cell’s genetic(遗传的)material and forces the cell to make a copy of the virus. The cell then dies. And the viral particles move on to invade and kill more healthy cells.
The AIDS virus is carried in a person’s body fluids. The virus can be passed sexually or by sharing instruments used to take intravenous (静脉内的) drugs. It also can be passed in blood products or from a pregnant woman with AIDS to her developing baby.
Many stories about the spread of AIDS are false. You cannot get AIDS by working or attending school with someone who has the disease. You cannot get it by touching, drinking glasses or other objects used by such persons. Experts say no one has gotten AIDS by living with, caring for or touching an AIDS patient.
There are several warning signs of an AIDS infection. They include always feeling tired, unexplained weight loss and uncontrolled expulsion of body wastes(大小便失禁). Other warnings are the appearance of white areas on the mouth, dark red areas of skin that do not disappear and a higher than normal body temperature.
Concerning the ways the AIDS virus can be passed, which of the following statements is wrong

A:An AIDS mother can pass on the virus to her unborn child. B:The AIDS virus can be passed on through infected blood. C:The AIDS virus can be passed on by shaking hands and sharing belongings. D:The AIDS virus is passed sexually.

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A:An AIDS mother can pass on the virus to her unborn child. B:The AIDS virus can be passed on through infected blood. C:The AIDS virus can be passed on by shaking hands and sharing belongings. D:The AIDS virus is passed sexually.

Almost every family buys at least one copy of a newspaper every day. Some people subscribe to as many as two or three different newspapers. But why do people read newspapers
Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings--battles lost and won, kings or rulers overthrown or killed—took months and even years to travel from one country to another. The news passed by word of mouth and was never accurate. Today we can read in our newspapers of important events that occur in faraway countries on the same day they happen.
Apart from supplying news from all over the world, newspapers give us a lot of other useful information. There are weather reports, radio, television and film guides, book reviews, stories, and, of course, advertisements. There are all sorts of advertisements. The bigger ones are put in by large companies to bring attention to their products. They pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for their advertising space, but it is worth the money, for news of their products goes into almost every home in the country. For those who produce newspapers, advertisements are also important. Money earned from advertisements makes it possible for them to sell their newspapers at a low price and still make a profit.

A:sent by telegraph B:sent by letter C:passed from one person to another D:sent by telephone

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Almost every family buys at least one copy of a newspaper every day, Some people subscribe to as many as two or three different newspapers. But why do people read newspapers
Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings--battles lost and won, kings or rulers overthrown or killed--took months and even years to travel from one country to another. The news passed by word of mouth and was never accurate. Today we can read in our newspapers of important e vents that occur in faraway countries on the same day they happen.
Apart from supplying news from all over the world, newspapers give us a lot of other useful in formation. There are weather reports, radio, television and film guides, book reviews, stories, and, of course, advertisements. There are all sorts of advertisements. The bigger ones are put in by large companies to bring attention to their products. They pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for their advertising space, but it is worth the money, for news of their products goes into almost every home in the country. For those who produce newspapers, advertisements are also important. Money earned from advertisements makes it possible for them to sell their newspapers at a low price and still make a profit.

A:sent by telegraph B:sent by letter C:passed from one person to another D:sent by telephone

______ it be true that Albert passed the test in geography

A:May B:Should C:Could D:Would

Passage Four Almost every family buys at least one copy of a newspaper every day, Some people subscribe to as many as two or three different newspapers. But why do people read newspapers Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings--battles lost and won, kings or rulers overthrown or killed--took months and even years to travel from one country to another. The news passed by word of mouth and was never accurate. Today we can read in our newspapers of important e vents that occur in faraway countries on the same day they happen. Apart from supplying news from all over the world, newspapers give us a lot of other useful in formation. There are weather reports, radio, television and film guides, book reviews, stories, and, of course, advertisements. There are all sorts of advertisements. The bigger ones are put in by large companies to bring attention to their products. They pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for their advertising space, but it is worth the money, for news of their products goes into almost every home in the country. For those who produce newspapers, advertisements are also important. Money earned from advertisements makes it possible for them to sell their newspapers at a low price and still make a profit.

A:sent by telegraph B:sent by letter C:passed from one person to another D:sent by telephone

Cars have traditionally been wasteful beasts. Every time a drop of gas explodes inside a cylinder(气缸), the energy gets passed along from the piston(活塞)to the crankshaft(曲轴), flywheel (飞轮), gearbox, drivetrain, and axles(轮轴). By the time the wheels actually turn, four fifths of the original energy has disappeared. The electric Car goes a long way toward reducing wasted energy by replacing the internal - combustion engine with batteries. Even so, electric cars destroy about 60 percent of the energy because mechanical parts are stiu used to deliver energy from the batteries to the wheels. Lately, though, engineers have come up with a far more efficient way to accomplish the same task: by using magnets in the wheels.
In traditional cars, four fifths of the original energy has been wasted by the time

A:the gas explodes inside the cylinder. B:the energy gets passed along from the piston to the crankshaft. C:the energy was delivered from the batteries to the wheels. D:the energy is finally passed to the wheels.