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  3. In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、

In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、

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问题 In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、D、E、F、G……) to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are several extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. (10 points)

    I came to live here where I am now between Wounded Knee Creek and Grass Creek. Others came too, and we made there little gray houses of logs that you see, and they are square. (41)______.
    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. (42)______. The flowering tree was the living center of the hoop, and the circle of the four quarters nourished it. The east gave peace and light, the south gave warmth, the west gave rain, and the north with its cold and mighty wind gave strength and endurance. This knowledge came to us from the outer world with our religion.
    (43)______. 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, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. (44)______. 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 tepees were round like the nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nation’s hoop, a nest of many nests, where the Great Spirit meant for us to hatch our children.
    But the Wasichus 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. When we were living by the power of the circle in the way we should, boys were men at twelve or thirteen years of age. (45)______.

A. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle.
B. Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
C. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop Was unbroken, the people flourished.
D. It is a good way to live, for there can be much power in a square.
E. The water is also running in a circle, falls from the sky and returns in vapor form.
F. But now it takes them very much longer to mature.
G. It is a bad way to live, for there can be no power in a square.

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答案A
解析 从下一句话"月亮也是如此，两者都是圆的"。我们再分析几个选项，可以判断，本句应该讲述的是太阳的运动，因此，正确答案应该是A。
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