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  3. Sequoyah was born about 1770 in the village of Taskigi. He was a Cherokee Indian, and, along with his entire tribe, he was illit

Sequoyah was born about 1770 in the village of Taskigi. He was a Cherokee Indian, and, along with his entire tribe, he was illit

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问题     Sequoyah was born about 1770 in the village of Taskigi. He was a Cherokee Indian, and, along with his entire tribe, he was illiterate. As a result of a hunting accident that left him partially crippled, he enjoyed more leisure time than other tribesmen. And he began to ponder the idea that the Indian people might also come to possess the secret of the "talking leaf". Alone in the woods, he spent hours playing with pieces of wood or making odd little marks on one stone with another. Neither his wife nor his friends offered him any encouragement, and many ridiculed him. But Sequoyah was obsessed with his dream of developing an alphabet for the Cherokee language.
    At first, Sequoyah tried to give every word a separate character, but eventually he realized the futility of such approach and settled on assigning one character to each sound. What he achieved twelve years later was a syllabary of eighty-six characters representing all of the sounds of Cherokee. In combination, they produced a written language of remarkable simplicity and effectiveness. It was so simple, in fact, that it could be learned in a few days. Within a matter of months, a population that had been entirely illiterate became almost entirely literate.
    As a tribute to this great Indian educator, the tallest trees in North America, the Sierra Redwoods, were given the name Sequoyahs.
From this passage, we know that Sequoyah was________.
选项 A、a very tall person
B、a Taskigi Indian
C、a married man
D、easily discouraged
答案C
解析 文中第一段倒数第二句说：“无论是他的妻子还是他的朋友，都没有对他进行鼓励，许多人还嘲笑他。”由此我们可以推断出他是一个已婚的男人。因此选项C正确。本题亦可通过排除法找到答案。选项A说他是一个非常高大的人，文中并未提及，故可排除。选项B说他是一个Taskigi印第安人，从文中第一段第一句、第二句我们得知，他是一个切罗基印第安人，Taskigi仅是他出生的地方，是一个村名，所以选项B可排除。选项D说他是一个很容易泄气的人，文中第一段最后一句说：“但塞阔亚仍执著于他的梦想，他要为切罗基语言发明一种字母表。”文中第二段说他经过12年的努力，最后为自己的部落创制出86音符的字母表。由以上我们看出，塞阔亚是一个执著的人，而不是一个容易泄气的人。选项D应排除。
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