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  3. The Cherokee Nation Long before the white man came to America, the land belonged to the American Indian nations. The nation o

The Cherokee Nation Long before the white man came to America, the land belonged to the American Indian nations. The nation o

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问题                          The Cherokee Nation
   Long before the white man came to America, the land belonged to the American Indian nations. The nation of the Cherokees(切罗基族人) lived in what is now the southeastern part of the United 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 language. Using his own imagination and an English spelling book, Sequoyah invented a sign for each sound. His alphabet(字母表) proved amazingly easy to learn. Before long, many Cherokees knew how to read and write in their own language. By 1828, they were even printing their own newspaper.
   In 1830, the U. S. Congress 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 River?
   The army was sent to drive the Cherokees out. Soldiers surrounded their villages and marched them at gunpoint(枪口) into the western territory. The sick, the old 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 (筋疲力尽的)by the hardships of the journey. 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.
One of the ways that Sequoyah copied from the white man is the way of
选项 A、writing down the spoken language.
B、making word pictures.
C、teaching his people reading.
D、printing their own newspaper.
答案A
解析 关键词：Sequoyah和the white man(白人)。第二段的段首句说“白人来了以后，切罗基人从白人那儿拷贝了许多白人的方法。”然后接着说到了塞阔雅，可见答案相关句在该段。该段提到了“切罗基人做了文字图片”，于是否定了答案B；依据该段最后一句可判断“不是从白人那儿学会的报纸印刷”，所以否定答案D；而该段中也未说“教他的人民识字”；所以答案只能是A(记下口语)。而该段的确是讲从白人那儿学会运用字母符号记录发音的方法，故选A。
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